“…The highlights were too numerous to mention. The Copley Singers provided several, including a compelling reading of Samuel Barber’s “Agnus Dei,” which uses the music of his Adagio pretty much intact and thus (thanks partly to Oliver Stone’s film “Platoon”) carries resonances appropriate to this occasion; and a powerful setting of “We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder” by a choir member, Andrew Clarkson. The Young People’s Chorus was appealing in numbers picked up on a tour of South America. The Bach Choir of Bethlehem sang a Brahms motet (“Lass Dich Nur Nichts”) with all the polish and fervor that it brought to cantatas by its namesake.”
