About the Concert:

The Reverend Walter Hussey reimagined the church as a place of living artistic creation, commissioning work from major figures in both music and visual art, including Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Chagall, and Henry Moore. Early in his career, he commissioned Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb; toward its close, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. Framed by those two landmark works, the Back Bay Chorale opens its season with the world premiere of Zachary Wadsworth’s De Profundis, a setting of texts by an imprisoned Oscar Wilde composed as a modern analogue to Rejoice in the Lamb.

About the composer Zachary Wadsworth:
Zachary Wadsworth is a composer of  “fresh, deeply felt and strikingly original” music (Washington Post), with regular performances and premieres around the world. His compositions have been heard at the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and Tokyo’s Takinogawa Hall, and they have been performed by such ensembles as the choir of Westminster Abbey, the Yale Philharmonia, the Swedish Chamber Choir, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Richmond Symphony. More...