On Sunday November 23rd, the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale performs Amy Beach’s The Canticle of the Sun on their program Songs of Joy. The concert featuring vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, also includes works by Dvořák and Mozart, and will be performed at Harold Miossi Hall at the Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo on the Cal Poly campus at 3 pm.  Tickets here.

Beach’s work, a musical setting of thirteenth-century text by St. Francis of Assisi, was premiered with organ in 1928 and with orchestra in1930.  In 2006, A-R Editions published an engraved and edited version of the orchestral parts, facilitating the performance of that full version.

SLO Master Chorale is also hosting two educational presentations  by Prof. E. Douglas Bomberger, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach (2023).  Sat.  Nov. 22, 2025,  “Amy Beach and the Power of Connections”  and on Nov. 23 at 1:15 pm  “Dvořák, Beach, and American Music in the 1890s.”