Sat Mar 13 – Sun Mar 14 · 8pm/7:30pm
Curse Upon Iron
Sat Mar 13 · 8pm, Church of the Covenant (Boston) / Sun Mar 14 · 7:30pm, First Church in Cambridge
Seraphim marks the Singing Revolution of 1986–1991, when Estonians and their Baltic neighbours used mass choral singing and banned patriotic songs to protest Soviet occupation, with a programme of Estonian choral music. It centres on Arvo Pärt's Berliner Messe for choir and organ and Veljo Tormis's rarely performed Raua needmine (Curse Upon Iron), for choir and Koryak drum. Eric Christopher Perry conducts, with Heinrich Christensen at the organ.