Freedom! Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert
Masterwork Chorus, with special guests Montclair State University Jazz Band, present an extraordinary and rarely performed sacred oratorio for chorus and jazz band by icon Duke Ellington. A choral oratorio like you’ve never heard before, fans of classical and jazz alike will be blown away by this exuberant and heartfelt masterpiece.
Chatham United Methodist Church
Conductor: Martin Sedek
Run time: 60 minutes, no intermission. A complimentary reception will follow.
Beethoven’s Mass in C & Christ on the Mount of Olives
A full professional orchestra and soloists join Masterwork for a performance of two of Beethoven’s most poignant and dramatic works. Though sacred in subject matter, Christ on the Mount of Olives is a humanistic oratorio whose almost operatic emotional weight laid the groundwork for the secular dramatic oratorios that followed.
Seungchan Hong, Baritone
The Concert Hall at Drew University
Conductor: Martin Sedek
Run time, 1 hour, 50 minutes including intermission.