Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026

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Time: 8:00 PM

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Location: Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory (30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA)

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Tickets: Free for BC students (with registration); $17.50 general admission. Click here to purchase and/or reserve your ticket!

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Repertoire:

• Chorale and Chamber Singers

  • Frank Ticheli: Earth Song (Chamber Singers)

  • Rosephanye Powell: The Word Was God

  • Traditional Spiritual, arranged by Moses Hogan (1957-2003): We Shall Walk through the Valley in Peace

  • Traditional, arrangement and additional lyrics by James L. Stevens: Nearer My God to Thee

• University Wind Ensemble (UWE)

  • Viet Cuong, Moth

  • Kevin Day, Requiem for the Unarmed

• BCSO

  • Kevin Day, Fires Unquiet Within (co-commissioned; world premiere)

    • Sasha Callahan, violin soloist; Leo Eguchi, cello soloist

  • Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring

  • Combined Ensemble (Chorale, UWE, and BCSO)

    • Kevin Day, American Pastorale (excerpt)

      • Sebastian Bonaiuto, conductor​

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Program Theme/Description: A New American Day

• The Boston College Symphony Orchestra, University Chorale, and University Wind Ensemble share the stage for an evening of American music at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. Over two hundred and fifty students will perform together, to reflect upon and commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. A celebration of contemporary and historical composers, this program tells an important and polyglot story about American musical identities and aims to underscore the relationship between music and civic engagement within the unfinished and aspirational project of American democracy. The program features three works by composer Kevin Day, including a world premiere co-commissioned by the Boston College Symphony Orchestra and featuring Leo Eguchi, cello, and Sasha Callahan, violin, as the culmination of a week-long interdisciplinary artist residency with Dr. Day at Boston College. The concert is conducted by Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey, Sebastian Bonaiuto, and Anna Wittstruck, and will be emceed by David Quigley, the Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Provost and Dean of Faculties at Boston College. The concert is generously supported by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Office of Student Initiatives, Robsham Theater Arts Center, The Music Department, and the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Deans’ Office.