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In celebration of the Advent’s parish wide reading of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, members of our Music Ministry will perform music of Ralph Vaughan Williams inspired by the book. The concert will be presented virtually and streamed on Thursday, November 19, at 7:00 p.m. on AdventBirmingham.org/Live. If you miss the performance, it will be available on our website archive following the event.

From his own opera entitled The Pilgrim’s Progress, Vaughan Williams extracted seven songs to create a song cycle that sets an assortment of texts from Scripture, Bunyan, and others. Cathedral Choir members Kathryne Overturf, mezzo-soprano, and Randall Mayo, bass, will perform six of these songs, accompanied by Frederick Teardo on piano. In addition, the Cathedral Choir will offer a performance of Vaughan Williams’ Valiant-for-truth, a moving choral setting of an excerpt from Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra will present music for String Quartet by Mozart and Rachmaninoff at our next Midday Music concert on Friday, November 20, at 12:30 p.m. The performers will be ASO Concertmaster Daniel Szasz, violin; Serghei Tanas, violin; Zakaria Enikeev, viola; and Warren Samples, cello.

We are pleased to be able to open this concert to a limited public audience in the Nave. The concert will also be live-streamed on AdventBirmingham.org/Live and associated digital platforms, and will be made available for later listening at any time.

Please do not miss this free, 30-minute program of beautiful music performed by these outstanding musicians.

To sign up to attend this event in person, please CLICK HERE.