Season Finale Concert
with Susan Graham

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis
August 7

Gala Finale Concert with Susan Graham World acclaimed soloist Susan Graham joins the Desert Chorale for the Gala Finale Concert of Summer Festival 2009 in the Chorale’s first performance of In the Beginning, Aaron Copland’s motet for mezzo‐soprano and unaccompanied chorus. Music Director Joshua Habermann conducts the final concert of Summer Festival 2009.

Hymn to St. Cecilia
Benjamin Britten
(1913‐1976)

Lucis Creator Optime
Vytautas Miskinis
(b. 1954)

O Quam Gloriosum est Regnum
Tomás Luis de Victoria
(1548‐1611)

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Nils Lindberg
(b. 1933)

Corazón Coraza
Beatriz Corona
(b. 1962)

Son de la Loma
Traditional Cuban
Arr. Conrado Monier

Have Ye Not Known…Ye Shall Have a Song
Randall Thompson
(1899‐1984)

INTERMISSION

Crucifixus
Antonio Lotti
(1667‐1740)

Kyrie (Cantus Missae)
Joseph Rheinberger
(1839‐1901)

Dominus Vobiscum
Sydney Guillaume
(b. 1982)

Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
(b. 1963)

Justorum Animae
William Byrd
(1540‐1623)

In the Beginning
Aaron Copland
(1900‐1990)

SUSAN GRAHAM, MEZZO-SOPRANO