See, Hear, Speak [No Evil]
Adolphus Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes and other works connecting the three psalms featured in this work
Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 7:30pm
First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Max Holman, Guest Conductor
James R. Barkovic, Assistant Conductor
Our Program*
| Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: | Laetatus sum (Psalm 121) |
| Johannes Brahms: | Psalm 13, Op. 27 |
| Bobby McFerrin: | Psalm 23 |
| Jean Belmont Ford: | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
| Sydney Gillaume: | Renmen, Renmen |
| arr: Alice Parker: | Hear Me, O God, nor Hide Thy Face To God in Whom I Trust Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal |
| Edward Elgar: | Nimrod |
| Adolphus Hailstork: | I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Terrence Chin-Loy, Tenor |
*Program content subject to change.
Our Guest Artist
American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy, whom Opera News described as having a “beautiful lyric tenor voice” pairs passionate performance with a full, sweet sound. This season he makes his European debut singing Gualtiero in Vivaldi’s Griselda with the Danish National Opera and returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Virginia Opera, Opera Omaha and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons include his solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, and performances with the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan, Arizona Opera, Boston Lyric Opera (as Benny Paret Jr. in Champion) the American Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Boise Philharmonic for a performance of Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes as well as a residency with the College of Idaho. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah in the 2018-2019 season.
Terrence is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received a Performer Diploma. He also holds degrees from Mannes College, where he received the Michael Sisca Opera Award, the school’s top prize for an opera singer, and Yale University. Terrence holds a BA in Music from Yale, where his studies concentrated on Music Theory and Musicology. While at Yale, he was also a frequent performer with the Yale Baroque Opera Project. He is a 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semifinalist.