2023-2024 Season

We invite you to attend a concert during our 2023-2024 Season!

We are excited about our 2023-2024 concert season and invite you to experience music that will move your soul!

Advance tickets are now on sale (save $5 per ticket) online or by calling the Exultate office at: 651-707-0727. Your flex ticket may be used at any concert location or date throughout the season. General admission tickets purchased in advance of the each concert weekend are only $10 (under Age 30 or Student with ID), $25 (Senior 65+) and $30 (Adult).

Tickets purchased at the door are $15 (Under Age 30 or Student with ID), $30 (Senior 65+) and $35 (Adult).

Preferred seating is an additional $5 per ticket. (you receive the best seats up front!)

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Please Note: Tickets are no longer available on line for Concerts on April 12, 13 & 14, 2024. However, there are tickets still available for each concert. They are available at the door at each performance site. We would love to have you hear marvelous music performed well and we hope to see you at one of our concerts!

Bruckner & Sorenson – Masterpieces

April 12, 13 & 14, 2024

Exultate celebrates the 200th birthday of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. His choral music is captivating, inspiring and will surely move your heart. Hear his most emotional motets and portions of his monumental Requiem for choir, orchestra and soloists.

Heather Sorenson is a superb American composer. We proudly perform her beautiful Requiem written in memory of “precious lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Its first performance was given in April 2023. The style in which she writes is reminiscent of composers John Rutter, Morten Lauridsen, Ola Gjello and similar current composers who present beautiful melodies and rich harmonies coupled with orchestra, choir and soloists.

Exultate dedicates our performance to those you have lost from COVID-19. It is comforting and hopeful music for your soul!

Soloists for the Bruckner and Sorenson Requiems

Also at these concerts: World Premiere of

We Believe

by Twin Cities composer, Mark Shepperd. This new work is a fine setting of the Nicene Creed for full orchestra and choir.

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Music to be Performed:

Anton Bruckner: Locus Iste; Christus Factus est; Virga Jesse Floruit; Os Justi; Requiem (excerpts)
Heather Sorenson: Requiem
Mark Shepperd: We Believe

MASTERPIECES – CONCERT VENUES:

Friday, April 12, 2024 – 7:30 p.m.
Normandale Lutheran Church
6100 Normandale Road, Edina

Saturday, April 13, 2024 – 7:30 p.m.
Lake Nokomis Lutheran Church
5011 31st Avenue South, Minneapolis

Sunday, April 14, 2024 – 4:00 p.m.
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Avenue South, Minneapolis

Christmas Festival Concerts – (completed)

December 8, 9 & 10, 2023

Exultate celebrates the joy of the Christmas Season with jubilant and reflective music of Bach, Britten and carols both old and newly written for choir and orchestra. Hear glorious music in wonderful acoustic settings.

J. S. Bach

Bach Magnificat:

Exultate presents the amazing Magnificat by J. S. Bach for choir, orchestra and soloists. Written for Christmas Day in 1723 (exactly 300 years ago) this was his first major festival composition in his new position as Cantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. The previous Cantor, Johann Kuhnau, had maintained the medieval tradition of interspersing four traditional carols within the movements of the Magnificat. Bach therefore added his own four new movements. It is this version Exultate presents. For the past 300 years the Magnificat has inspired and moved people who have experienced it. This stunning work is a favorite – hear it in all its glory!

Soloists for the Bach Magnificat:

Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols:

Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten‘s Ceremony of Carols (excerpts) written in 1942 while Britten was on a ship from America to England is a magnificent work for women’s voices and harp. Hear its amazing harmonies and interplay between harp and choir with texts written in Middle English. The women’s voices in dialogue with each other as well as the harp bring an excitement and reverence rarely heard together in this awe-inspiring work for the ages – Brilliant!

World Premieres from Two Minnesota Composers:

Included in these concerts are two World Premiere carols and other Christmas delights both old and new. Twin cities composer Mark Shepperd’s new setting of the 17th century French carol What is This Fragrance? will be performed with full orchestra. The other NEW carol will be Exultate Tenor Section Leader’s new carol, The Child of Glory. The beautiful text and music present a fitting reflection for the Christmas Season and beyond. These two fresh works will delight you and the composers will be present to greet you.

Mark Shepperd

Steve Sandberg

You will be delighted by other sweet and joyful sounds and we will send you on your way singing with Exultate and orchestra on the favorite carol, Joy to the World! Don’t miss this cornucopia of glorious Christmas music

Music to be performed:

Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat (with the 4 interpolation movements)
Benjamin Britten – Ceremony of Carols (excerpts with harp and women’s choir)
Antonio Vivaldi – Gloria (Movement 1)
Mark Shepperd – What is This Fragrance? (WORLD PREMIERE)
Steve Sandberg – The Child of Glory (WORLD PREMIERE)
John Rutter – Candlelight Carol
arr. John Rutter – Joy to the World (with audience)
James Biery – O Little Town of Bethlehem
Joseph Running – Love Came Down at Christmas
arr. Dan Forrest – In the bleak Midwinter
Anthony Hedges – A Manger Carol

2023 CHRISTMAS CONCERT VENUES:

Friday, December 8, 2024 – 7:00 p.m.
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Avenue South, Minneapolis

Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 7:00 p.m.
Lake Nokomis Lutheran Church
5011 31st Avenue South, Minneapolis

Sunday, December 10, 2023 – 3:00 p.m.
Normandale Lutheran Church
6100 Normandale Road, Edina