From Darkness to Light
September 19, 2026, 7:30 pm at the Belle Mehus Auditorium
The BMSO pays tribute to the 25th Anniversary of September 11, 2001, and celebrates the 250th Birthday of America with the North Dakota Premiere of Can(N)ons of Freedom by Chris Brubeck, and the powerful Mozart Requiem with the Bismarck Mandan Civic Chorus and soloists Korliss Uecker, Tammy Hensrud, Emerson Eads and Jason Thoms.
Program
Cannons of Freedom......................Chris Brubeck (1952 - )
Blades of Grass...............................Romeo Cascarino (1922 - 2002)
Tonya Mertz, English Horn
Hymn to the Lost and the Living................Eric Ewazen (1954 - )
God Bless America.................................Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), Arr. Bruce Healey
INTERMISSION
Requiem K.. 526.....................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766-1803)
Introitus: Requiem aeternam
Kyrie
Sequentia: Dies irae, Tuba mirum, Rex tremendae, Recordare, Confutatis,
Lacrimosa
Offtertorium: Domine Jesu, Hostias
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Communio: Lux aeterna, Cum sanctis tuis
Korliss Uecker, Tammy Hensrud, Emerson Eads, Jason Thoms, Bismarck-Mandan Civic Chorus
Prayer of Tagor.........................Words by Rabindranath Tagore, music by Emerson Eads