Creation Multimedia Oratorio

By S. Peña Young
For SSA Choir, Tape, Video, Percussion, and Electronic Keyboard
Sung in Swahili, Spanish, and English with English subtitles

WORLD PREMIER

April 16th, 2010

7pm

St. Paul's Lutheran Church


Decatur, Illinois


Commissioned by Millikin State University and the recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women's Artist Enrichment Grant.

A complex multilingual intertwining of Afro-Cuban music and traditional choral music, the intermedia oratorio Creation celebrates diversity and the beauty of procreation. A celebration of culture, life, humanity, and the female body, Creation further marks itself as a musical milestone, commissioned specifically for a 60 member woman's chorus and composed by a young female composer of Cuban-Dominican heritage.




Premier performance by the Millikin State University Women's Chorale directed by Michael Engelhardt and accompanied by the Millikin University Percussion Ensemble, directed by Brian Justison.