AMASS
A New Mass for Old Instruments
Sunday, March 10, 2024, at 7:30pm
Christ Episcopal Church
120 W. High St., Charlottesville VA
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​Early Music Access Project offers a world premiere from composer James Dargan that features vocal soloists Brianna J. Robinson, Patrick Dailey, and the composer himself, accompanied by strings and organ. For this new work, AMASS, Dargan has married two musical styles he has grown up singing, embedding the spirituals of the Black churches he attended as a child into the Latin mass tradition of his professional choral singing career, using compositional techniques of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods, as well as period instruments. Works of Bach and Buxtehude have been selected to punctuate key moments of the Mass.