Global Echoes presents a stylistically rich and emotionally varied choral program that blends contemporary works with global folk traditions and sacred repertoire, emphasizing lyricism, textual clarity, and cultural breadth.

The concert weaves together intimate, reflective pieces such as Du bist die Ruh, Dirait-on, and Molitva with rhythmic and playful selections including Over Hill, Over Dale, Happy Land, and Flight, while drawing on multiple languages and traditions—from art song and modern choral writing to folk music of the British Isles, Japan, and Indonesia through works like Sakura, Dago Inang Sarge, and The Parting Glass. Sacred pillars such as Canticle to the Spirit and the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis balance secular storytelling

Program

Three Spring Songs
Umirzaya (Snowdrop), Milyausha Khairullina
Akcharlaklar (Seagulls), Elmir Nizamov, sung in Tatar
Molitva (Prayer), Elmir Nizamov, sung in Tatar

Three World Folk Songs
Dago Inang Sarge (Indonesia), arr. Mark O’Leary
Ancient City, Paul Jarman
Sakura (Japan), arr. Michael Neaum

Three Songs of the British Isles
Skye Boat song, arr. Michael McGlynn       
An Oiche (The Night), Michael McGlynn
The Parting Glass, arr. Michael McGlynn

Du Bist die Ruh, Schubert arr. Peter A. Eklund
The Bluebird, Stanford arr. Faye Timmer
Over Hill, Over Dale, Andrea Ramsey 
Hark, Hark the Lark, Alan Bullard
Flight, Craig Carnelia arr. Ryan Murphy
Canticle to the Spirit, Eleanor Daley
Dirait-on, Morton Lauridsen
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, Jessica French