Timbuctoo to Today

November 1, 2024 | 7:30 PM ET
Hochstein Performance Hall
50 N Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14614

In the 1850s, land grants in the Adirondack community “Timbuctoo,” given by Abolitionist Gerrit Smith to free Blacks, conferred to them the right to vote in New York. Hear the compelling and beautiful choral suite from Glenn McClure’s new work, Promised Land: An Adirondack Folk Opera, in its first performance, alongside American classics by Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland, just in time for Election Day. The SUNY Geneseo Festival Chorus joins ROS.

Featuring:
Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus and Orchestra, Eric Townell, Artistic Director
SUNY Geneseo Festival Chrous, Gerard Floriano, Director
X’zaya Ivy, soprano
Rocky Eugenio Sellers, bass-baritone

Program:
McClure: Choral Suite from “Promised Land: An Adirondack Folk Opera”
Thompson: The Testament of Freedom
Copland: from The Tender Land, “The Promise of Living”