BRAHMS AND HAILSTORK - Tribute Concert to Heather Heyer
A German Requiem by J.S. Brahms
*The World Called by Adolphus Hailstork (text by Rita Dove)

"The world called, and I answered." The Cecilia Chorus of New York pairs works by Johannes Brahms and Adolphus Hailstork that celebrate life by honoring the dead. Hailstork's The World Called, on words by former poet laureate Rita Dove, honors the memory of Heather Heyer in what would have been her 40th birthday year. Heyer’s mother Susan Bro will address the audience, and Dove will recite her work from the stage. Brahms’s lush German Requiem rounds out an evening of reverence for life itself.