Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
The Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago join us live in the studio prior to a tour to Alaska and British Columbia.
Artistic Director and Conductor: Emily Ellsworth
Pianist: William Buhr
Student announcers:
Jesslyn Cohen, 13, Itasca
Ian Strasma, 12 Wheaton
Kati Young, 17, Lisle
Anthony Lanzillo, 14, Glen Ellyn
Andrew Peck, age 17, Naperville
Stephen Bean, age 14, Glen Ellyn
Megan Torti, age 16, Glen Ellyn
Cameron Young, age 13, Glen Ellyn
Program:
Stephen Paulus: Day Break (from The Earth Sings)
Lita Grier: Cherokee Morning Song (from Two Indigenous Songs – Anima Commission 2014), Radio Premiere
Elizabeth Alexander: Faith is the Bird
Johann Michael Haydn: Laudate Pueri Dominum
Joan Szymko: Sioux Prayer
Stephen Hatfield: Ripple Effect
Traditional, arranged by Paul Basler: Shenandoah (from Five Folk Song Settings)
Rupert Lang: Sanctus (from Mass for Many Nations)