World on Fire

A winter concert revolving around nature, wonder, and the promise of a new day - featuring music by Benedict Sheehan, Ola Gjeilo, Philip Cooke, Jessica Meyer, and Christopher Tin; presented by LOTUS Chorale and LOTUS Festival Orchestra. 

Light of A Clear Blue Morning (arr. Craig Hella Johnson)

Sunrise Mass (Ola Gjeilo)
I. The Spheres
II. Sunrise
III. The City
IV. Identity and The Ground

Wondrous Blending of Sounds (Benedict Sheehan)

In The Waves (Jessica Meyer)

World on Fire (Philip Cooke)

Waloyo Yamoni (Christopher Tin)

The World on Fire is a setting of two diary fragments from Jackie Stedall, former University Lecturer in the History of Mathematics and fellow of The Queen’s College at Oxford University... The short fragments are bucolic and pastoral and full of the wonderment and spiritual power of nature – the title of the work comes from the second diary fragment: ‘The world on fire, not the fire of destruction, but of energy, creation, love. Burning in every moment.’