The Blacksburg Master Chorale joins forces with the Virginia Tech Choirs and VT Philharmonic for an inspiring performance of works for choir and orchestra.

• Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, set and sung in Hebrew, is filled with joy, love, and an urgent, poignant plea for peace.

• Faure's Requiem sets the traditional Latin text with lush harmonies as it considers love and loss, ultimately ending in ethereal beauty and peace.

• The concert ends with the world premiere of Dwight Bigler's newly orchestrated settings of three poems by the late Nikki Giovanni: the imaginative and joyful "A Short Bio of Nikki Giovanni",  the tender "A Poem of Friendship," and the epic "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)."

Each of these works illuminates unique and beautiful perspectives about the concert theme, "Touching the Stars."