Featuring the glorious sounds of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, our 2025 Voices of the Spirit performance focuses upon texts with a powerful message of promise, hope and faith. Aaron Copland’s tour de force for a cappella choir and mezzo-soprano soloist, In the Beginning, sets the familiar Genesis account of the first six days of creation as a vibrant tapestry for unaccompanied voices.

Twentieth century American composer Margaret Bonds faced racist headwinds throughout her career, yet continued to produce deeply meaningful compositions that are only now beginning to receive the recognition they deserve. Her 1967 work Credo for chorus, soloists and piano sets excerpts from the poem of the same name by Black writer W.E.B. DuBois, about the nobility of the Black race and the hope for equality.

Leonard Bernstein’s exuberant Chichester Psalms has enjoyed enthusiastic popularity since its 1965 premiere in New York City. At turns reflective, joyous and hopeful, it proclaims its vision of a world united in peace: “behold how good and how pleasant it is for humankind to dwell together in unity.”

We believe singing is for everyone – this performance is the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir’s first pay-what-you-can event because we aspire to dismantle inequities in the arts and make choral singing truly accessible for all. The lowest-priced tickets for this event are set at $5, but if this is not possible for you, please reach out to us by emailing info@indychoir.org.

While the lowest ticket price is set at $5, we encourage you to consider making an additional donation (whether that’s a small gift of $10 or our suggested donation of $40 as regular tickets would be $45) to help cover the true cost of this event. Programming like this is only possible because of patrons like you, and your generosity will ensure we can continue to share the joy and beauty of choral music with our entire community and beyond.