Concert first performed on May 7, 2026.
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
March 14, 2026
Who gets to speak for a nation? Who dares to tell its histories, raise its flag, and call its residents to a more unified future? The MPO joins forces with One Voice Mixed Chorus in an evening of fanfare, song, and symphony.
- Valerie Coleman: Umoja for wind quintet
- Andrew Balfour: Mamachimowin
- William Grant Still: Plain Chant for America
- Carlos Cordero: ¡Ayúdame! (Venezuelan Plea for Life)
- Reena Esmail: Still I Rise:: with Kimberly Waigwa and One Voice Mixed Chorus
- Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Link to the full program here.
Conducted by
Works Performed
Dates Performed
Concert first performed on November 9, 2019.
Symphonic hymns and airs resound with nature imagery in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm, and Sibelius’ Finlandia. MPO and One Voice Mixed Chorus celebrate contemporary composers with local history in works by Dessa and Jocelyn Hagen, Mari Ésabel Valverde, and Lee Hoiby.
Conducted by Brian Dowdy
Works Performed
- Antonin Dvořák, Nature’s Realm
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Op. 63
- Jean Sibelius, Finlandia
- Mari Esabel Valverde, Cloths of Heaven with soloist One Voice Mixed Chorus
- Dessa/Jocelyn Hagen, Controlled Burn with soloist One Voice Mixed Chorus
- Lee Hoiby, Hymn to the New Age with soloist One Voice Mixed Chorus
Dates Performed
Concert first performed on November 3, 2018.
To begin the next 25 years of MPO history, we join forces with One Voice Mixed Chorus in a transcontinental program featuring Libby Larsen’s Fanfare for Humanity, Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1, and opera choruses by Verdi and Copland.
Conducted by Brian Dowdy
Works Performed
- Libby Larsen, Fanfare for Humanity
- Florence Price, Symphony No. 1 in e minor
- Giuseppe Verdi, Overture to Nabucco
- Giuseppe Verdi, “Va Pensiero” from Nabucco
- Giuseppe Verdi, “Vedi! Le fosche” (Anvil Chorus) from Il trovatore
- Aaron Copland, “The promise of living” from The Tender Land
Dates Performed
Concert first performed on December 5, 2008.
Conducted by Jane Ramseyer Miller and Joseph Schlefke
Works Performed
- Beethoven, Ludwig, “Allegretto” from Symphony #7 in A Major
- Corigliano, John, Voyage (1978) with soloist Hamsa Isels, flute
- Mendelssohn, Felix, “Verleih uns Frieden (Da nobis pacem)”
- Brahms, Johannes, Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungren from with One Voice Mixed Chorus
- Gable, Christopher, By the Fireside – World Premiere, with One Voice Mixed Chorus
- Vaughan Williams, “Toward the Unknown Region” with One Voice Mixed Chorus
- Walker, Gwyneth, “How Can I Keep from Singing?” with One Voice Mixed Chorus
Dates Performed
Concert first performed on January 24, 2004.
Conducted by Jane Ramseyer Miller
Works Performed
- Faure, Gabriel, Requiem with One Voice Mixed Chorus
- Mahler, Gustav, Song of the Wayfarer with soloist Christopher Faust, baritone
- Hoiby, Lee, Hymn to the New Age with OVMC
- Carnahan, Craig, Anthem, with OVMC – World Premiere with OVMC/li>
Dates Performed
- January 24, 2004
- January 25, 2004
