HSC Season Opening Concert: Connecting the Dots…Telling Our Story

The Heritage Signature Chorale proudly presents Connecting the Dots…Telling Our Story, the opening performance of our 2026–2027 Season.

Through The Poets, Curators' Choice Series, Telling Our Story, and HSC Opera Initiatives, this program explores the powerful connection between poetry, history, storytelling, and music—bringing together the Heritage Signature Chorale, HSC Chamber Singers, HSC Chamber Orchestra, and featured soloists.

The evening will feature music by celebrated Black composers including Clarence Cameron White, Margaret Bonds, Adolphus Hailstork, Ulysses S. Kay, and more.

Audiences will hear poetry and texts by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, and others brought to life through choral, orchestral, solo, and operatic works.

Featured works include the modern premiere of Heritage: A Musical Statement, The Night Shall Be Filled With Music and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, selections from Songs of the Slave, and spirituals arranged by Moses Hogan.

Join us as we connect the dots and tell our story through the words, music, and voices that have shaped—and continue to shape—our musical heritage.

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