New York Choral Society @ Carnegie Hall

Friday night, Kevin and I attended a performance by the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall. Larry Rasmussen - good Lutheran bass singer, pillar (with his wife, Nyla) of Trinity Lutheran Church, and Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at UTS - was kind enough to secure tickets for us. The program featured three symphonic-choral works by Antonin Dvorak, from three different periods of his life: Te Deum (1892), Mass in D (1887), and The Heirs of White Mountain (1873). If you've never listened to Heirs, then do - it's quite a musical romp, and the poetry is beautiful, if a bit over the patriotic top. Many thanks to Larry for inviting us to a wonderful treat!