Gwyneth Van Anden Walker

That is the opening to a work called The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.

You probably gleaned the title of that work from, from those lyrics, and such powerful writing by the great Gwyneth Walker.

And this is just one of a number of works that are going to be performed Saturday evening as part of the concert that opens the 40th anniversary season of the Choral Arts Society, the concert titled Honoring 250 Years of America.

The concert will be taking place, uh, in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church, 716 College Avenue in downtown Racine.

So we will have this poem then, uh, recited in its entirety Saturday night as part of the concert.

Yes.

And adjacent to the Gwyneth Walker piece?

Yes, the, the Gwyneth Walker piece will, uh, will, uh, be said first, uh, sung first.

Music by a woman from the Renaissance, some music by Fanny Mendelssohn on that program.

The big piece is going to be Gwyneth Walker's The Great Lakes, which was written just a couple of years ago for a choral society in Toledo, Ohio.

So we're excited to give that another airing right here in Ohio.

The Bach Society of Dayton presents America 250, Sunday, October 11th at 4 p.m. at the Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church.