Taylor Festival Choir Bernstein Chichester Psalms

At 3 p.m. on April 28 at Grace Church Cathedral, the full Taylor Festival Choir performs a concert featuring Leonard Bernstein’s iconic Chichester Psalms, as well as repertoire from their upcoming Pathways to Healing album. Featured guest performer will be internationally renowned cellist Natalia Khoma, Professor of Cello at the College of Charleston.

“I have been planning to revisit Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms for years now," says Dr. Robert Taylor, director of the Choir.  With its pulsating, ebullient opening section (which reminds one of West Side Story) as well as its lyrical and dramatic second and third sections, this is 'modern masterpiece' of the highest order. I must also add how rewarding it always is to work with the great Natalia Khoma. Charleston is so fortunate to have one of the truly great cellists of the world as one of our own. The repertoire we are performing with her, Reena Esmail’s When the Violin and Gabriel Jackson’s To the Field of Stars, are jaw-dropping works in their own right, and feature both Natalia’s and the TFC’s artistry perfectly.”