Davee Media Library

A teeming world of marine life, displayed on 89 giant panels, immerses viewers inside a thriving coral ecosystem.

Three movements of Kile Smith’s The Waking Sun anchor this program, featuring the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble and University Chorale, conducted by Donald Nally, Matthew Cramer, and Corey Everly.

Donald Nally conducts University Chorale and the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra in David T. Little's Am I Born, with text by Royce Vavrek. The performance features vocal soloist Aryssa Burrs.

Donald Nally conducts the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble in Judd Greenstein's My City, based on poems of Walt Whitman, in two parts:

Alan Pierson conducts the Contemporary Music Ensemble and tenor Pablo Laucerica in Matt Marks's A Song for Wade (This is not that song).

Donald Nally conducts the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble in the world premiere of Nicholas Cline's Watersheds, with tenor saxophone soloist Joseph Connor and vocal soloists Walter Aldrich, Olivia Prendergast,

She-e Wu, percussion

Mysterium is the composer’s own wind transcription of her sacred choral work, O Magnum Mysterium.