The San Antonio Chamber Choir’s Artistic Director Richard Bjella has crafted a stunning spring offering this year that centers around Eric Whitacre’s most recent major work, The Sacred Veil.

This multi-movement work features a series of poems written about the librettist Charles Anthony Silvestri’s relationship with his late wife Julie, her battle with ovarian cancer, and the grief he experienced as a result of her passing in 2005. SACC will also present the world premiere by Kyle Pederson; Minneapolis-based composer, lyricist, pianist, and educator. Kyle was awarded the ACDA Genesis Prize in 2020 and the American Prize in Choral Composition in 2019. SACC will begin with one of Josquin’s most significant works that he wrote for his beloved teacher, Johannes Ockeghem after his death. Whitacre’s extended masterpiece is followed by Pederson’s commissioned work offered as a sacred gift to our community to all who have lost loved ones.

SACC will present two concerts for this series - Saturday, May 4 at Alamo Heights UMC (7:30pm) and Sunday, May 5 at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower.