"The choral artistry is unmatched, and the

repertoire selection tasteful and innovative.

sounding light leaves the listener looking,

gratefully, to the heavens." - The Banner

2017-18 Concert

Season Many Voices…One Song

Many Voices…One Song is a non-profit arts organization based in the Metro-Detroit area whose mission is to build community by

sharing meaningful musical experiences.www.manyvoicesonesong.org

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Tom Trenney is grateful to be in his 15th season as conductor of sounding light, an ensemble he founded in 2003. As Minister of Music to First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, Tom leads

four adult choirs, accompanies the congregation in worship, and preaches. First-Plymouth’s choirs have been featured at recent conventions of the Nebraska Music Educators Association and the Nebraska and North Central regions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). In March 2017, two of Tom’s choirs were honored to sing for the National Convention of the ACDA in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, Tom has performed and taught at choral, organ, and church music conferences from coast to coast. His recordings are featured regularly on public radio, and his choral compositions have been sung by collegiate and church choirs across the country. www.tomtrenney.com

For concert information, available recordings and opportunities to support sounding light, please visit:www.soundinglight.org www.facebook.com/SoundingLightChamberChoir

sounding light’s new recording, Unclouded Day, will be released in October, and CDs will be available for purchase at our October 13-15 concerts.

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The Chamber Choir of Many Voices...One SongTom Trenney, Conductor

Anne Wilson, AccompanistThe Chamber Choir of Many Voices...One SongTom Trenney, Conductor

Anne Wilson, Accompanist

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Unclouded Day

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Known for its inspiring and illuminating performances, sounding light brings together a unique collection of singers gathered from seven states. Led by its founder, Tom Trenney, sounding light is committed to offering its members a spiritual and holistic approach to ensemble singing while offering its listeners a compelling and timeless experience with the choral art. Since its birth in 2003, sounding light has been privileged to sing with Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, Joseph Flummerfelt, Alice Parker, and William Weinert, and has premiered works by Carmen Cavallaro, David DiChiera, Stacey Gibbs, Jake Runestad, Tom Trenney, and Anne Wilson. In 2017, the choir received one of the highest honors offered to an American choir - an invitation to perform for the National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association. With three recordings to date, sounding light celebrates its

Unclouded Day.www.soundinglight.org

sounding light (text: Psalm 146) Anne Wilson, organ. BOOSEY & HAWKES, INC.Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.Put not your trust in rulers nor in any child of earth, for there is no help in them.When they breathe their last, they return to earth,And in that day their thoughts perish.Happy are they who have the God of Jacob for their help Whose hope is in the Lord, their God;Who made heaven and earth, the seas, and all that is in them: Who keeps his promise forever; who gives justice to those who are oppressed, And food to those who hunger.The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous: The Lord cares for the stranger; He sustains the orphan and widow, but frustrates the way of the wicked.The Lord shall reign forever, your God, O Zion, throughout all generations. Hallelujah!

(text from Dusk at Sea by Thomas S. Jones, Jr.) Karen Cook and Christie Peck, sopranos FOSTCO MUSIC PRESS, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.Tonight eternity alone is near,The sunset and the dark’ning blue,There is no space for fear,Only the wonder of its truth.

CATHEDRAL MUSICHide me under the shadow of Thy wings, O Lord, And give Thine angels charge concerning me: That I may lie down in peace and take my rest, For it is Thou, Lord, only, that makest me to dwell in safety.

Many Voices…One Song is grateful to ?????? for their generous contributions which have made this recording possible. This disc was recorded in the beautifully-restored sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Michigan, in four sessions between June 2015 and April 2017.

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(text: Rev. J. K. Alwood) BOOSEY & HAWKES, INC.O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies,They tell me of a home far away,And they tell me of a home where no storm-clouds rise:O they tell me of an unclouded day.O the land of cloudless days.O the land of an unclouded sky.O they tell me of a home where my friends have gone,They tell me of a land far away,Where the tree of life in eternal bloomSheds its fragrance through the unclouded day.O they tell me of a King in His beauty there,They tell me that mine eyes shall beholdWhere He sits on a throne that is bright as the sunIn the city that is made of gold.

(text: Psalm 91, adapted by Tom Trenney) For God shall give the angels charge over you; That they shall protect you, in all your living keep you. For their hands shall uphold and guide you, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

HAL LEONARD CORPORATIONNow Talking God,With your feet I walk. I walk with your limbs.I carry your body forth. For me your mind thinks.Your voice speaks for me. Beauty is before me, Beauty is behind me.Above and below me hovers the beautiful;I am surrounded by it, I am immersed in it.Oh, in my youth I am aware of it,And in old age I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail.

We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.

Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain.Yet if we are bold,love strikes away the chains of fearfrom our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity

we dare be braveAnd suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be.Yet it is only lovewhich sets us free.

(text: Henry Williams Baker) NEIL A. KJOS MUSIC CO.The King of love my shepherd is whose goodness faileth never;I nothing lack if I am his, and He is mine forever.

And where the verdant pastures grow with food celestial feedeth.

And so, through all the length of days, Thy goodness faileth never; Good shepherd, may I sing thy praise within thy house forever.

Known for its inspiring and illuminating performances, sounding light was recently honored with the invitation to perform at the 2017 National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association. Led by its founder, Tom Trenney, sounding light is committed to offering its members a spiritual and holistic approach to ensemble singing while offering its listeners a compelling and timeless experience with the choral art. Since its birth in 2003, sounding light has been privileged to sing with Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, Joseph Flummerfelt, Stacey Gibbs, Alice Parker, and William Weinert, and has premiered works by Carmen Cavallaro, David DiChiera, Jake Runestad, Tom Trenney, and Anne Wilson. To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary in 2017-18, sounding light will release its fourth CD recording - Unclouded Day. www.soundinglight.org

Come down by the riverside to join sounding light for a program that flows from beside the still waters through rushing waves and stormy seas. Beloved folk songs will soothe us with images of placid streams and pacific oceans; treasured hymns will revive us with vistas of effervescent fountains and babbling brooks; dramatic music will tender us to picture the rougher waters of our journey through rain, snow, ice, floods; and poignant poetry will speak of the tears that flow in the parched, desert moments of life. sounding light promises an oasis of unqualified loveliness to quench your thirst for beauty, so come to the waters to cleanse your mind and to refresh your spirit!

Friday, October 13 - 7:30 p.m.Featuring Detroit Country Day’s Bella VoiceFirst Presbyterian Church 1669 West Maple Road, Birmingham

Saturday, October 14 - 7:00 p.m. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 247 W. Lovell, Kalamazoo

Sunday, October 15 - 3:00 p.m.Featuring Choirs from Wayne State University Grosse Pointe Memorial Church 16 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe

Sunday, October 15 - 7:30 p.m. Featuring University Presbyterian Church’s Agape SingersUniversity Presbyterian Church 1385 S. Adams Road, Rochester Hills

Friday, February 2 - 7:30 p.m. Featuring Choirs from Stoney Creek High SchoolFirst United Methodist Church 320 W 7th Street, Royal Oak

Saturday, February 3 - 7:30 p.m. Featuring Choirs from SVSUSaginaw Valley State University 7400 Bay Road, University Center

To open the fifteenth anniversary season, sounding light sings to the heart of hope and to the soul of compassion - sharing powerful, compelling texts from across the ages set to music that transcends the boundaries of time and place. Hear timeless words of inspiration from Rumi, the Psalmists, Mister Rogers, and Maya Angelou set to compelling rhythms and harmonies of Johann Sebastian Bach, the African-American spiritual, Maurice Duruflé, and our own Tom Trenney.

A highlight of the program is sure to be our special guest conductor − award-winning composer Jake Runestad − who will conduct his moving composition, The Hope of Loving, for string quartet and chamber choir. Open

your heart to hear the passionate voices of sounding light sing into the eternal hope of loving.

About The HOPe Of LOvInGsounding light sings to the heart of hope

COMe TO The waTeRSsounding light sings music inspired by water

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