With a Joyful Heart

The Jameson Singers present their festive program for the holidays, "With a Joyful Heart." Join them for an evening of song on Saturday, Dec. 3. Tickets are $30 for general admission and $20 for students and limited income attendees at the door. Discounted tickets can be purchased online in advance. Their program features works from Renaissance masters William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins plus modern gems from Stephen Paulus and Stephen Caracciolo. The audience is encouraged to join in their annual carol sing. More highlights include Ukrainian composer Dmytro Bortniansky’s choral concerto, "Slava vo vyshnikh Bohu" (Glory to God in the Highest), which features a unique blend of Baroque polyphony, Ukrainian folk melodies and Church Slavonic liturgy. In "Dona Nobis Pacem," contemporary Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks makes a poignant plea for peace. Johannes Brahms uses poetry, chromatic colors and continually changing rhythms to take listeners on an intensely emotional journey in his motet, "O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf" (O Savior, Tear Open the Heavens).