Echoes of Winter
The Newburyport Choral Society invites you on a musical journey through the season’s refined beauty—the echoes of the past, and the bold resilience that precedes renewal and the bloom of spring.
About the concert
NCS Music Director Dr. Minji Kim has created an emotion-packed holiday concert that energizes singers and audience members alike. It opens with André Thomas’s African Noel, echoing the foot stomping energy of Dan Forrest’s rousing Jubilate Deo from our spring concert. The program features a brass ensemble, percussion, organ, piano, the Youth Choir of Immaculate Conception, NCS' own small chamber ensemble, and sing-alongs with our audience.
Savor familiar carols set in refreshing new harmonies in A Winter’s Night by Cecilia McDowall. Experience the holiday season's mixture of sadness and hope in Glenn Rudolph's The Dream Isaiah Saw, dedicated to those who perished in the 9/11/2001 attacks, and performed by candlelight. Yearn for the new year in the Israeli piece Bashana Haba'ah. And revel in the robust rhythms of Gloria in Excelsis by Randol Alan Bass, which was commissioned for the Boston Pops. The concert closes with Michael Engelhardt's buoyant Gospel-inspired I Will Sing.
Join us as we celebrate hope, joy, and the promise of a brighter new year filled with harmony and peace, shining brightly in the warmth of a brass ensemble and children's voices.