ARIANNE ABELA, CONDUCTOR PRESENTS March 19-22, 2026
Surround Sound
The full forces of Seraphic Fire close out this celebratory year with a surround-sound, polychoral experience imported directly from the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, Italy. You’ll be at the center of the action as we sing from every corner of the room. An experience you can only get at Seraphic Fire, our season closes with this aural explosion.
BOCA RATON | Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 PM | St. Gregory's Episcopal
CORAL GABLES | Friday, April 10 at 8:00 PM | Church of the Little Flower
FT. LAUDERDALE | Saturday, April 11 at 7:30 PM | All Saints Episcopal
MIAMI BEACH | Sunday, April 12 at 4:00 PM | Miami Beach Community Church
Conductor Arianne Abela Leads a Sensory Musical Experience Designed to Explore the Wonder of Nature
Q: Arianne, how did you decide what the theme of your program would be?
A: I love the water, having lived on the Detroit River and growing up close to the San Francisco Bay. I chose pieces that were very special to me. I wanted to showcase the different sides of water: the power and the danger of water and then also the peace and serenity of water. Around that, additional pieces are about nature and its connection to the world. When I found out that this will be a candlelight concert, too, that solidified my thinking of ‘let's connect to the earth and the nature around us’ and create an experience for the audience.
Q: How would you describe the program and the story the music tells?
A: The program is laid out in sets of music that will be performed without applause. We start with chant from Hildegard von Bingen and then perform Mountain Nights by Kodály. It immerses us in the wilderness and nature. The next section is about rough waters and, honestly, I've been thinking a lot about those families in Texas and the devastating impact of water and the flooding, and what that means: how nature can take over and leave us powerless. Two pieces, Canticum calamitatis Maritimae by Mäntyärvi and Kuster's White Hurricane, both address the turmoil of water, as they are two historic shipwrecks. Those pieces are going to be really impactful. Then the music features the more serene waters we experience. That will be really very special because it's going to paint this beautiful contrasting picture of calm waters. We are doing a very cool piece called I Am a Cloud. It's very different from everything else we'll be performing.
Q: It sounds like you're taking the audience through an array of emotions. Do you want listeners to walk away with a message?
A: I see each program I curate as a journey and message. I don't make the messages so ‘in your face,’ but I juxtapose pieces deliberately for that transformation, to stir up feelings in the audience. A lot of times I don't have applause in the middle of sets, because I want there to be that connection between one piece to another. I want the audience to think, “how does this piece connect to this next piece, and what is this message that we're going for?” So, it should feel like a musical journey. I think people will leave feeling like they had a full body experience, and not just with their ears, but everything about the program is thoughtful and stirring.
Q: What are the most difficult or challenging pieces for the singers?
A: Many of them have performed the Canticum by Mäntyärvi; it has some difficult moments, and there's tricky rhythms. That one will be a challenge, but it has this peacefulness and then harshness in the center and back to peaceful. So, I think anyone performing that piece, it’s very fulfilling and feels powerful to perform. The other is a Filipino piece, so the language Tagalog might be tricky. That piece has brighter sounds in it that might be a new experience and a challenge. That's why I'm so excited, because I know that these singers are just phenomenal, and will be able to do it flawlessly.
Candlelight
Thu, Mar 19, 2026 | 7:00 pm | Moorings Presbyterian, Naples
Fri, Mar 20, 2026 | 7:30 pm | St. Philip’s Episcopal, Coral Gables
Sat, Mar 21, 2026 | 7:30 pm | All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale Sun, Mar 22, 2026 | 4:00 pm | St. Gregory’s Episcopal, Boca Raton
Arianne Abela, conductor
Please hold your applause until the end of each set
I.
O Frondens virga Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) Hegyi Éjszakák Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) Winter Sun Don MacDonald (b.1966)
II.
Canticum calamitatis Maritimae Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b.1963)
III. Wade in the Water Maurice Draughn (b.1977) White Hurricane Kristin Kuster (b.1973) I. Red Sky
IV.
Super flumina babylonis
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Wahdon Ziad Rahbani (1956-2025)
Soloist: Haitham Haidar
V.
Ecco mormorar l’onde Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Sunset Daniel Knaggs (b.1983)
VI.
Little April Shower Frank Churchill (1901-1942) arr. Adam Ward (b.1981)
VII. The Rivers Are Our Brothers Majel Connery (b.1979) 2. I Am a Cloud Water Night Eric Whitacre (b.1970)
SOPRANO
Chelsea Helm
Gitanjali Mathur
Elijah McCormack
Addy Sterrett
ALTO
Amanda Crider
Doug Dodson
Gabriela Estephanie Solís
TENOR
Aaron Cates
Haitham Haidar
Gene Stenger
BASS
Brett Epperson
Matthew Goinz
Lovell Rose
Arianne Abela, conductor
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O Frondens virga
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
O frondens virga, in tua nobilitate stans sicut aurora procedit: nunc gaude et letare et nos debiles dignare a mala consuetudine liberare atque manum tuam porrige ad erigendum nos.
Hegyi Éjszakák, Mvt. I (Mountain Nights)
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
No Text
Winter Sun
Don MacDonald (b.1966)
To light, to water, and the flow of birds through ancient stars.
To the wild sun of winter startling the dark green trees: giants of majestic silence.
To snow on roofs and the peace of Sunday. To quiet and certitude, to breathing, to air.
To acceptance, to dreams.
To disclosures of the sleeping heart, for air, for light.
Oh blossoming bough, standing in all your nobility just as the morning awakens: so now rejoice and be glad, though we are frail deem us worthy, keep us from falling into habitual wickedness and also extend your hand out to help us stand upright.
Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b.1963)
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis
Miserere Domine
Plus octingenti homines vitam amiserunt calamitate
navali in Mari Baltico septentrionali facta. Navis traiectoria nomine Estonia, cum Tallinno Stockholmiam versus navigaret, saeva tempestate orta eversa et submersa est. In navi circiter mille vectores erant.
Calamitate Estoniae nongenti decem homines perierunt, centum undequadraginta sunt servati
Qui descendunt mare in navibus facientes operationem in aquis multis ipsi viderunt opera Domini et mirabilia eius in profundo. Dixit et stetit spiritus procellae et exaltati sunt fluctus eius; ascendunt usque ad caelos et descendunt usque ad abyssos. Anima eorum in malis tabescebat; turbati sunt et moti sunt sicut ebrius et omnis sapientia eorum devorata est.
Et clamaverunt ad Dominum cum tribularentur et de necessitatibus eorum eduxit eos et statuit procellam eius; in auram et siluerunt fluctus eius et laetati sunt quia siluerunt et deduxit eos in protum voluntatis eorum.
May the eternal light shine upon them, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. Have mercy, O Lord.
Over eight hundred people perished in a shipwreck in the northern Baltic Sea. The car ferry Estonia, en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, was overturned in a severe storm and sank.
There were about 1000 passengers on board 910 people lost their lives in the wreck of the Estonia; 139 were saved.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Wade in the Water
Maurice Draughn
(b.1977)
Wade in the water, wade in the water, children, Wade in the water, God’s a-gonna trouble the water.
Look over yonder, what do I see?
God’s a-gonna trouble the water. The Holy Ghost a-coming on me, God’s a-gonna trouble the water. [Refrain]
If you don’t believe I’ve been redeemed, God’s a-gonna trouble the water. Just follow me down to Jordan’s stream, God’s a-gonna trouble the water. [Refrain]
White Hurricane: I. Red Sky
Kristin Kuster
(b.1973)
Red sky at morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.
Great lakes hold our blue summers in their deeps, they store the sunlight in their many waters. The lakes store sunlight in their many waters and, autumn come, return it to the welkin. Red sky at night, sailors’ delight. Such magic, these sentimental evenings. Come autumn, we return it to the welkin. Send up our prayers like letters rolled in bottles. There is such magic in these sentimental evenings, the dead beside us in old-fashioned clothes. Send prayers for them, like letters rolled in bottles. In turn, they warn us of fall winds from north or west. The dead are with us in their finest clothes, each man telling his story.
Super flumina babylonis
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Super Flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus
dum recordaremur tui, Sion: in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra.
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered thee, O Zion. As for our harps, we hanged them up : upon the trees that are therein.
Wahdon
Music: Ziad Rahbani (1956-2025)
Poetry: Talal Haidar (b.1937)
Alone they remain, like the elderflowers
Alone, they harvest the leaves of time
They close down the forest
They are like rain, knocking at my doors, at my doors.
Oh time
Oh, grass sprawling over these walls
I lit the night rose over my book
The tower of the pigeons is fenced and high
The pigeons fled, I remained alone, all alone.
You, waiting for the snow, don't you want to return? I cry out for them in the rain, oh wolf, hoping they may hear.
Alone they remain, like these ancient clouds
Alone, their faces and darkness of the road
They traverse the forest
And in the hands like rain, they knock at my doors as the tears knock at my doors. Oh time,
Of the ages of the grass' shadow on these walls
Before the trees grew tall
I light up the lanterns and wait for my friends
They passed by, they left. I stayed at my door, all alone.
You, going with the snow, don't you want to return?
I cry out for them in the rain, oh wolf, hoping they may hear. You, going with the snow, don't you want to return?
I cry out for them in the rain, oh wolf, hoping they may hear.
Ecco mormorar l’onde
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Ecco mormorar l'onde, E tremolar le fronde
A l'aura mattutina, e gli arboscelli, E sovra i verdi rami i vaghi augelli
Cantar soavemente, E rider l'Oriente;
Ecco già l'alba appare, E si specchia nel mare, E rasserena il cielo, E le campagne imperla il dolce gelo, E gli alti monti indora:
O bella e vaga Aurora, L'aura è tua messaggera, e tu de l'aura
Ch'ogni arso cor ristaura.
Sunset
Daniel Knaggs (b.1983)
The river sleeps beneath the sky, And clasps the shadows to its breast; The crescent moon shines dim on high; And in the lately radiant west
The gold is fading into gray. Now stills the lark his festive lay, And mourns with me the dying day. While in the south the first faint star
Lifts to the night its silver face, And twinkles to the moon afar
Across the heaven’s graying space
Low murmurs reach me from the town, As Day puts on her sombre crown, And shakes her mantle darkly down.
Now the waves murmur
And the boughs and the shrubs tremble in the morning breeze, And on the green branches the pleasant birds Sing softly
And the east smiles; Now dawn already appears And mirrors herself in the sea, And makes the sky serene, And the gentle frost impearls the fields And gilds the high mountains:
O beautiful and gracious Aurora, The breeze is your messenger, and you the breeze's Which revives each burnt-out heart.
Little April Shower (from Bambi)
Frank Churchill (1901-1942); arr. Adam Ward (b.1981)
Drip, drip, drop little April shower
Beating a tune as you fall all around. Drip, drip, drop little April shower What can compare with your beautiful sound?
Drip, drip, drop, when the sky is cloudy Your pretty music can brighten the day. Drip, drip, drop, when the sky is cloudy You come along with a song right away. (come with your beautiful music…)
Drip, drip, drop little April shower
Beating a tune as you fall all around. Drip, drip, drop little April shower What can compare with your beautiful sound?
Drip, drip, drop, when the sky is cloudy You come along with your pretty little song. Drip, drip, drop, when the sky is cloudy You come along with your pretty little song.
Gay little rondelay, song of the rainy day, How I love to hear you patter, pretty little pitter-patter, Helter-skelter when you pelter, Troubles always seem to scatter away!
The Rivers Are Our Brothers:
2. I Am a Cloud Majel
Connery (b.1979)
I am a cloud. I am upside down.
I am together, I am apart.
Upon the blue sky, now.
I spin around the world.
I change a thousand miles a minute.
I am just born, and I’m disappearing.
I’m like the waves in the sky.
I’m a reflecting pool.
I mirror every ripple far below me.
I am an answer, I am surprising, and I only take dictation from the wind.
I am a cloud, you do the work:
Just tell me what to be.
I am a thousand shapes upon the palette of the sky.
I am a bird, I am a ship, I am a tree.
I am the music! I’m getting louder now.
I’m the original art form etched upon a blank slate.
I am the earth-shattering image of a face up in the sky,
I am the untold story of the beginning of time.
I’m the original conversation, and an ongoing negotiation.
I am purposeful obscurity, I’m spectacular multiplication.
I’m the universal symphony, and the centuries in reverse,
I’m the singular revelation of articulate matter,
I am the untrained genius of the childlike mind,
I am the waves in the sea!
I am disappearing.
Water Night
Eric Whitacre (b.1970)
Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the night
Night with eyes of water in the field asleep
Is in your eyes, a horse that trembles is in Your eyes of secret water
Eyes of shadow-water
Eyes of well-water
Eyes of dream-water
Silence and solitude
Two little animals moon-led
Drink in your eyes
Drink in those waters
If you open your eyes, night opens doors of musk
The secret kingdom of the water opens Flowing from the center of the night
And if you close your eyes
A river, a silent and beautiful current, fills you from within Flows forward, darkens you: Night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul.
Announcing Our 24th Season
Subscriptions go on sale Thursday, April 9, 2026
The GRAMMY® Nominated Vocal Ensemble will return for its 24th Season with seven exciting new concert programs, October 2026 – March 2027
Serenade to Music
Season 24 opens with a celebratory concert marking Seraphic Fire’s new artistic leadership, featuring a vibrant program of works never before performed for our home audience.
October 15–18
Blue Notes
Backed by a small jazz combo, Seraphic Fire explores the close harmonies and unmistakable American “cool” of jazz standards made famous by Nat King Cole, Etta James, and Cole Porter.
November 19–22
Noel:
An Old-World Christmas Seraphic Fire’s beloved candlelit holiday concert returns with cherished carols whose roots stretch back to the Medieval and Renaissance eras, alongside contemporary seasonal favorites.
December 11–20
One for All
The tenors and basses of Seraphic Fire take center stage in a powerful program tracing more than 1,000 years of music written for men’s voices.
January 14–17
Northern Lights
This program explores luminous choral music inspired by the vast landscapes and quiet transcendence of Northern Europe, featuring works by Ola Gjeilo, Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, and selections from Philip Glass’s groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach. February 18–21
American Poets
America’s greatest voices ring out in a program featuring musical settings of texts by writers honored in the National Garden of American Heroes, including Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson.
March 18–21
Misa Criolla
Season 24 closes with a vibrant celebration of Latin American music, featuring Ariel Ramírez’s beloved Misa Criolla, a groundbreaking work that blends the traditional Mass with the rhythms and folk instruments of Argentina.
April 8–11
Our Donors
For donations between June 1, 2024, and February 25, 2026
As we enter a season of gratitude, Seraphic Fire celebrates the supporters who make our music possible. Your generosity helps us share world-class performances and bring meaningful music education to thousands of students across South Florida, from Title I elementary schools to high schools and universities. With public arts funding on the decline, your gift plays an essential role in keeping our concerts vibrant, our classrooms alive with song, and our community connected through music. Together, we can keep South Florida’s choral tradition strong for generations to come.
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Edmundo Pérez-de Cobos, Director Emeritus
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TUESDAY, APRIL 7 7PM
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Patrick D. Quigley & Rob Peccola
Leonard Smith
Wayne & Lucretia Weiner
Seraphic Fire is sponsored by the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council, and the Miami Beach Mayor and City Commissioners; Coral Gables Community Foundation; The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation; Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation; Funding Arts Network; Funding Arts Broward; The Kirk Foundation; Peacock Foundation, Inc; Quest Foundation. With the support of the City of Coral Gables Cultural Arts Division. Seraphic Fire is funded by The Children’s Trust. The Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County by making strategic investments in their future. Programs in Broward County are made possible with the support of the Broward County Cultural Division. Support has been provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Marlene Holder Fund for Broward, Barbara and Michael G. Landry Fund for Broward, Dorothy Osterhoudt Unrestricted Fund for Broward, and The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund.