Gabriel's Oboe & O Magnum Mysterium / Kiang · Waden · Shuler · Pang · Hope College @ Carnegie Hall

The Hope College Orchestra invites students of all faiths — or no faith at all — to explore theology, philosophy, and music together as one coherent subject. In this attacca orchestration of Ennio Morricone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission and Morten Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium,” students are tasked with delivering the performance with utmost faithfulness to the story of “The Mission” and the Latin lyrics of “O Magnum Mysterium” through text painting with sound alone. The two pieces are connected by the perfect fifth interval between the notes D natural and A natural which are present throughout both pieces. The sustained interval represents the “scarlet thread of redemption” in God’s salvation plan, which remains present from the beginning to the end, even during history’s darkest times.

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The Hope College Orchestra, based in Holland, Michigan, is Hope College’s premier audition-based instrumental ensemble, open to students of all academic disciplines. The diverse backgrounds and talents of the orchestra members are celebrated through the fostering of interdisciplinary conversations within the course structure and concert programming. Angeline Kiang (cello) is a Hope College Patrons for the Arts guest artist from The Juilliard School. Allison Waden (oboe) majors in Elementary Education and minors in Music at Hope College. Samuel Shuler (organ) is a Music Performance major at Hope College. Prof. Samuel Pang is an assistant professor of music and the director of orchestras at Hope College.