Resonance Nova

Music as catalyst for change.

Resonance Ensemble and Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, two organizations with deep commitments to innovative programming that promotes meaningful social change, are thrilled to join forces for an electrifying performance harnessing the massive power of choral/orchestral music to call attention to global and national conflicts causing humanitarian crises today – and to advocate for substantial change.

Resonance and the PCSO will perform three extraordinary works together: Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands, exploring today’s refugee crisis, and Margaret Bonds’s Credo – a work about racial justice with a text by W.E.B. DuBois that has resonated for far too long. For the finale of the concert, Resonance has invited the choirs of Lewis & Clark College and Reed College to join in the powerful Dona nobis pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams, an urgent cry for global peace and reconciliation.

Featured Artists and Performers:
Dr. Katherine FitzGibbon, conductor
Steven Byess, conductor
Resonance Ensemble
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Cappella Nova Choir (Lewis & Clark College)
Collegium Musicum (Reed College)