The Thirteen is an all-star professional choir known for inspired and powerful live performance.

The Spire Series is thrilled to launch its 7th season with the stellar chamber choir, The Thirteen. This concert will be given in memory of beloved First & Franklin member, Cecil (Jerry) Bishop. Jerry was an ardent lover of choral music, and felt that First & Franklin’s own choir was central to the witness and ministry of this congregation. Please plan to be present for a night of exquisite music in the beauty of First & Franklin’s candlelit sanctuary. This is also a wonderful opportunity for our congregation to extend its hospitality to the many guests and visitors who will be in attendance.

The Thirteen presents Reincarnations, this performance features a diverse and engaging program of masterworks new and old. Featuring the American Premiere Performance of Thomas Tallis’ epic Ave Dei patris filia, Samuel Barber’s touching Reincarnations, and the virtuosic and infectiously-fun I’ll Fly Away by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Don’t miss this performance replete with choral pyrotechnics and electric harmonies.

The Thirteen draws its artists from among the finest ensembles in the world, including Chanticleer, Seraphic Fire, Apollo’s Fire, Conspirare, I Fagiolini, Opera Philadelphia, Boston Early Music Festival and Trinity Wall Street.

The choir's peerless singers are best described by NPR commentator M.D. Ridge: “to talk about the remarkable abilities and sound of the individual singers would...be like trying to say which whitecaps on the ocean reflect the sun most beautifully, or which leaves on a tree dance most gracefully with the wind...I stand in awe.”
~M.D. Ridge, National Public Radio commentator

A meet-the-artists reception will follow the concert.

Spire Series SUBSCRIPTIONS available online. http://www.firstfranklin.org/index.php/community/music/the-spire-series/...
Tickets available online or at the door.