The Waking Sun
Saturday, May 17, 2025 • 7:30 pm
Sanders Theatre
45 Quincy St., Cambridge 02138
Featuring Kile Smith's The Waking Sun and Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte.
Back Bay Chorale
Stephen Spinelli, conducting
Hailed as ‘a knockout’ by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kile Smith's The Waking Sun opens a window into that "otherness" waiting patiently for each of us while we tend to our daily existence. It's an ancient philosophy for the modern age. Carissimi’s Jephte, celebrated as one of the first masterworks of oratorio, is the ideal counterpart to Smith’s early music-inspired tour de force.
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