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Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 7 pm

There’s light at the end of the tunnel and the journey starts here. Four-time Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Billy Childs develops his choral pieces first looking for texts, then creating his musical ideas. After reading the heartbreaking poetry book I Never Saw Another Butterfly, written by children in the Terezin concentration camp, Childs sought other poems reflecting emotions from anger to hatred to hope, written by young people in situations of adversity all over the world. What he found became the catalyst for his large-scale new cantata set for Master Chorale, children’s chorus, soloists and orchestra. A prodigy as a jazz pianist, the LA -native Childs performed with the Freddie Hubbard quartet and has been awarded orchestral commissions from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minneapolis’ VocalEssence and the Monterey Jazz Festival, as well as critical acclaim for “a keen attention to making the music truly represent the words.” — The Akron Beacon Journal

Through Childs’s profoundly moving composition, the voices of these children reach across history’s abyss and allow us to touch them, restoring our own hope for humanity. Light emerges from the darkness.

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