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The Dessoff Choirs – led by Music Director Malcolm J. Merriweather – presents the inaugural program of its 2025-2026 season, performing Adolphus Hailstork’s The World Called on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. at Brick Church. Hailstork, who is known for blending African, American, and European traditions, based his work on Rita Dove's poem, Testimonial, which evokes themes of nostalgia, youth, and promise.
The programme will also include Herbert Howells’s Requiem and Magnificat - originally written for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London - featuring organist Dr. Raymond Nagem, and a reprise of Tania León’s It’s a Journey, commissioned for the ensemble’s centennial with poetry by the late Nikki Giovanni. Steven Ryan joins The Dessoff Choirs on piano.
