Brigham Young University-Idaho choirs and orchestra will perform a new sacred work in Salt Lake City, Rexburg and Pocatello on March 8, 9 and 10. Bring Forth My Zion features the music of K. Newell Dayley, a well-known composer and currently dean of the School of the Arts at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The work is the eleventh in the series of sacred music oratorios commissioned by BYU-Idaho.
POCATELLO - Thursday, March 8, 7:30 p.m., ISU Stephens Performing Arts Center: Admission is free, but tickets are necessary. They can be obtained in person at the ticket office or by calling the Stephens Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at (208) 282-3595.
REXBURG - Friday, March 9, 7:30 p.m., BYU-Idaho Center: Admission is free, but tickets are necessary. They can be obtained from the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office at (208) 496-3170 or (800) 717-4257 (open school days from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) or online at www.byui.edu/tickets. A BYU-Idaho pre-show dinner at 6 p.m. is available for $15 to those interested (deadline to order dinner is March 5).
SALT LAKE CITY - Saturday, March 10, 7:30 p.m., Salt Lake Tabernacle: Admission is free, but tickets are necessary. They can be obtained at the Temple Square Events Ticket Office at www.lds.org/events, (801) 570-0080 or toll free at 1-866-537-8457.
Under the direction of Randall Kempton, the BYU-Idaho Symphony Orchestra will combine with more than 250 voices from the Collegiate Singers, Men’s Choir, and Women’s Choir to present this sacred music service.
As a composer, Dr. Dayley may be best known for hymns such as “Lord, I Would Follow Thee,” “I Feel My Savior’s Love” and “Faith in Every Footstep,” which are widely used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1997, he also wrote Immanuel, another sacred work commissioned as part of this series.
“A message about bringing forth Zion seems timely,” says Dr. Dayley. “It is our opportunity right now to learn to live together in ways that characterize Zion - to be peacemakers, to respect and serve one another, to care for those in need, and stand firmly for those things that truly matter. Within every facet of society throughout the world there is a great need for integrity, love, and greater faith in true principles.”
He continued, “The purpose of this musical work is to help us realize and remember how to become more like those of old who were of one heart and one mind, and lived together in righteousness and happiness. There were no poor among them. There was no contention. There was no bondage. They were all made free and partakers of heaven's gifts.”
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