In May, the 40
-voice University Chorale and the 24-voiceSchola Cantorum presented "Sing me to Heaven," a spectacular choral program that was both uplifting and profoundly moving.
Under the direction of J. Bennett Durham, and accompanied by Patricia O'Connell, the program presented music that journeyed through an emotional arc of "joy and faith, comfort and devotion, pain and healing, hope and vitality," said Ben Durham. Featuring American folk hymns, settings of scripture, and poems by Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats, the program was designed to "speak directly to simple truths in the experience of being human."