Calling All Dawns: Music Service at All Souls Church Unitarian

Name: Calling All Dawns: Music Service at All Souls Church Unitarian
Start: 2026-05-31T10:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-31T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 1500 Harvard St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20009

Schedule

Sun May 31 2026 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1500 Harvard St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20009 | Washington, DC

May 31 service is not-to-be-missed! Includes choirs and 16 piece chamber orchestra!
Mark your calendars for the May 31st service (10:30 am) as the All Souls Music Program will presents the song cycle Calling All Dawns. This beautiful piece of music by Christopher Tin includes lyrics in 12 languages, all thematically unified through the themes of life, death and rebirth. The All Souls Choir, youth singers and Jubilee Singers will present this glorious work, along with a chamber orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Keith Arnold, Director of Music and Arts. The All Souls Jubilee Singers were among the first choral groups to debut an arrangement of Baba Yetu, which is the Lord's Prayer in Swahili and the first song in the cycle, popularized in the video game Civilization. Composer Christopher Tin states: "Most of the sources of the texts for Calling All Dawns come from various sacred and secular texts: the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita, the Dao De Jing, the Requiem Mass, the Rubaiyet of Omar Khayyam, Irish poetry, Polish hymns and Maori proverbs." Not to be missed! A reception will follow.