Exodus: The Concert

Exodus: Dreams of the Promised Land in Antebellum America

Acclaimed a cappella group The Western Wind performs a concert of music from the earliest days of the United States. Works by William Billings (1746 – 1800), Stephen Jenks (1772 – 1856), Shaker hymns, part songs, proto spirituals both Black and White attest to the vital hold that biblical Liberation imagery held over the early American consciousness. Come hear the surprisingly complex musical landscape that emerged from an embryonic nation carved from dreams of freedom and the labor of slaves.