The Ordering of Moses
in collaboration with Heritage Signature Chorale
Music by Nathaniel Dett
Texts from scripture and folklore

Nathaniel Dett’s 1930’s choral oratorio THE ORDERING OF MOSES weaves together classic spirituals into a musical feast that helped ignite America’s civil rights movement. Now IN Series and Heritage Signature Chorale join forces in a first ever staging of this epic masterpiece, in which music and theater, chorus and soloists, surround and immerse audiences in an embodied spiritual and artistic experience - collaborating with DC musicians, dancers, and visual artists, and a cast of nationally recognized vocalists. Inspired by the much acclaimed 2019 L’Enfance du Christ, here a sacred space is transformed with the paintings of Richshaad Ryan into a sanctuary of melody and meaning.

Conducted by Stanley Thrurston
Directed by Jarrod Lee* and Timothy Nelson
Choreography by Shawna J. Williams        
Artwork by Richshaad Ryan
Design by Maria Bissex and Paul Callahan

FEATURING: Melissa Wimbish*, Gayssie Lugo. Albert Lee, Carl Dupont*,
Elise Jenkins*, Aryssa Leigh Burrs, Brandon Lockhart, Daniel J. Smith,
Jihanna Davis, Michael Lodico, Heritage Signature Chorale.

*Member of the Cardwell Dawson Artist Fellowship

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