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SUMMARY:Great Bend Chorale: I Was a Stranger
DESCRIPTION:The Great Bend 2025-26 season concludes with I Was a Stranger\, a poignant program that reflects on mercy\, grief\, and the power of welcome. The journey begins with Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei\, a choral setting of his iconic Adagio for Strings\, transforming its familiar ache into a sacred plea for peace and forgiveness. From this place of solemn reflection\, Andrey Stolyarov's Out of the Depths offers a cry for mercy drawn from Psalm 130 music born of personal loss\, gradually unfolding from sorrow into a luminous expression of hope. The program culminates with John Muehleisen's Borders\, a sweeping\, multicultural cantata commissioned by Great Bend for the Chorale's 2019 Carnegie Hall debut. The American-prize winning work opens with a traditional Salish welcome and weaves together global folk melodies and poetry from Emma Lazarus\, Brian Bilston\, and Alberto R os. Borders offers a powerful meditation on hospitality\, identity\, and belonging. Together\, these works create a moving narrative that invites us to see the stranger not as "other\," but as kin.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">The Great Bend 2025-26 season concludes with&nbsp\;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">I Was a Stranger</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">\, a poignant program that reflects on mercy\, grief\, and the power of welcome. The journey begins with Samuel Barber&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">Agnus Dei</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">\, a choral setting of his iconic&nbsp\;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">Adagio for Strings</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">\, transforming its familiar ache into a sacred plea for peace and forgiveness. From this place of solemn reflection\, Andrey Stolyarov&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">Out of the Depths</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">&nbsp\;offers a cry for mercy drawn from Psalm 130&mdash\;music born of personal loss\, gradually unfolding from sorrow into a luminous expression of hope. The program culminates with John Muehleisen&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">Borders</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">\, a sweeping\, multicultural cantata commissioned by Great Bend for the Chorale&rsquo\;s 2019 Carnegie Hall debut. The American-prize winning work opens with a traditional Salish welcome and weaves together global folk melodies and poetry from Emma Lazarus\, Brian Bilston\, and Alberto R&iacute\;os.&nbsp\;</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">Borders</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; border: 0px\; outline: 0px\; font-size: 16px\; text-size-adjust: 100%\; vertical-align: baseline\; background-image: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-repeat: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; color: rgb(52\, 53\, 55)\; font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Helvetica\, Arial\, Lucida\, sans-serif\;">&nbsp\;offers a powerful meditation on hospitality\, identity\, and belonging. Together\, these works create a moving narrative that invites us to see the stranger not as &ldquo\;other\,&rdquo\; but as kin.</span>
LOCATION:Faith Lutheran Shelton
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DTSTAMP:20260517T052342Z
URL:https://chamber.masonchamber.com/events/details/great-bend-chorale-i-was-a-stranger-73474
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