Name: City on the Hill
Start: 2019-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: First Church

Organization

Conductor

Anne Azéma

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Camila Parias

Contralto

Deborah Rentz-Moore

Alto

Tenor

Daniel Hershey

Michael Barrett

Bass-baritone

Luke Scott

The Boston Camerata

City on the Hill

Cambridge

United States

First Church

City on the Hill: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Approved

On this fascinating and inspiring concert, Camerata will perform songs by the many religious groups that came to Boston and New England, beginning with the Puritans in 1640, to the hymn and anthem-singing Congregationalists and Universalists of the eighteenth century, to the utopian Shakers of Maine and Massachusetts, whose enormous production of spirituals and dance songs reveal themselves as central to the American dream of the Shining City. Solemn and virtuous hymn singing contrasts with the barroom ballads that became religious songs. Carefully ordered worship contrasts with inspired dancing, joyful revelation, and hope for a better world.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast