Resonance Ensemble & Orchestra NOVA NW: Resonance Nova

Resonance Ensemble and Orchestra NOVA Northwest (formerly Portland Columbia Symphony)

Saturday, March 15, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)

Reynolds High School, Troutdale, OR, United States

$35-$60 ($15 kids/students, $10 student musicians, $5 Arts For All)

Cappella Nova Choir (Lewis & Clark College)
Collegium Musicum (Reed College)
Katherine FitzGibbon, conductor
Steven Byess, conductor

Caroline Shaw — To the Hands
Margaret Bonds — Credo
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Dona Nobis Pacem ("Grant Us Peace")

Resonance Ensemble and Orchestra Nova Northwest, two organizations with deep commitments to innovative programming that promotes meaningful social change, are thrilled to join forces for an electrifying performance harnessing the massive power of choral/orchestral music to call attention to global and national conflicts causing humanitarian crises today – and to advocate for substantial change.

This program will present a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw that uses excerpts of American poet Emma Lazarus' poem The New Colossus and also addresses refugee crises, and a rarely performed work of American composer Margaret Bonds that sets W.E.B. Du Bois' stirring Credo from his 1920 autobiography, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. For the finale of the concert, Resonance has invited the choirs of Lewis & Clark College and Reed College to join in the powerful Dona nobis pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams, an urgent cry for global peace and reconciliation.

2 performances of this program:
- Saturday, March 15, 7:30pm at Reynolds High School in Troutdale
- Sunday, March 16, 3pm at the Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton

About Resonance Ensemble

Resonance Ensemble, a professional vocal ensemble based in Portland, Oregon, creates powerful programs that promote meaningful social change. Resonance works to amplify voices that have long been silenced, and they do so through moving, thematic concerts that highlight solo and choral voices, new music by composers and poets whose stories have been underrepresented on the concert stage, visual and other performing artists, and community partners.

https://www.resonancechoral.org/

About Orchestra NOVA Northwest (formerly Portland Columbia Symphony)

https://pcsymphony.org/

About Cappella Nova Choir (Lewis & Clark College)

Cappella Nova is Lewis & Clark College's premier mixed choir, performing music from all eras and major choral works with orchestra, both on campus and on domestic and international tours. Director: Katherine FitzGibbon.

https://college.lclark.edu/departments/music/ensembles/choirs/