Online Concert

Purchase a digital Event Pass to join us for the Live Watch Party of the premiere of Feeling New Strength on Sunday, March 7th at 2pm, and enjoy new Video On Demand* features that allow you to watch the concert again and again!

*Because this performance will be streamed LIVE on March 7th, the Video-On-Demand feature will not be available until 1 week after the Live Watch Party Premiere.

In Beethoven's transcendent Heiliger Dankgesang (“Holy Song of Thanksgiving”), following the opening meditative chorale, he inscribes into the score the words “Neue Kraft Fühlend,” or “Feeling New Strength,” as the music erupts into an exuberant dance, representing his recovery from a serious illness. The rest of the program grapples with this theme of strength through struggle: from Josquin's haunting depiction of Christian redemption through crucifixion, to Montgomery's exploration of Black spirituals as the DNA undergirding the dance gestures of Alvin Ailey, the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the works of other Civil Rights-era Black artists; from Shaw's gritty and imaginative response to contemporary displacement crises to Revueltas’ focus on Cuauhnáhuac, where many of the most radical concepts powering the Mexican Revolution were championed. All these works double down on music's power to describe those struggles we most fear or that we might be blind to, and to find strength and grace in doing so.

Musical Program

Josquin des Prez: Ave Christe immolate, arr. A Far Cry 

Jessie Montgomery | Source Code 

Silvestre Revueltas | Cuauhnáhuac

Caroline Shaw | “Litany of the Displaced” from To the Hands, arr. A Far Cry

Ludwig van Beethoven | Heiliger Dankgesang, from Quartet Op. 132, arr. A Far Cry

All programs and dates are subject to change.

Photography by Josh Reynolds for A Far Cry’s season opener Treasure Hunt