Dare to Hope

Consonare Community & Youth Choirs

with Willimantic Orchestra

Dare to Hope is a concert experience featuring music for chorus and orchestra, performed by Consonare Community Choir, Consonare Youth Choirs, and the Willimantic Orchestra (performer info in "What to Expect" below)

This concert will present "Song of Hope" by Florence B. Price", "Toward the Unknown Region" by Ralph Vaughn Williams, the premiere of "Sunflower Instructions" by Michelle Horsley, and more. Cultivate some hope this spring!

Sunday, May 31, 2026 | 3:00PM

Fine Arts Instructional Complex - ECSU

Suggested donation $15 | students free

(no one turned away for lack of funds -- ticket reservation recommended due to past performances)

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WHAT TO EXPECT

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What is this concert about?

Dare to Hope is a collaborative concert experience to encourage us all to cultivate hope this spring.

This concert will feature music for chorus and orchestra, performed by Consonare Community Choir, Consonare Youth Choirs, and the Willimantic Orchestra, that considers ways to explore the concept of hope and dare us all to cultivate hope even in times when we are venturing into the unknown.

This bi-annual collaboration between Consonare and the Willimantic Orchestra has been an incredible way for our musicians to bring choral-orchestral music to our community that we cannot perform without each other.

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Song of Hope

Words and Music by Florence B. Price (1887-1953)

1930

Text:

I dare look up. The heaven's blue is mine!

Held in contempt and hated, still, Lord, I am Thine.

Tho' torn asunder, joined arrows reach my soul

Because Thou livest do I know that Thou shalt make me whole.

I dare look up through flames that, mounting high,

consume my flesh. In faith I see Thee. Thou art nigh.

I would not that my anguish to Thy throne ascend,

For pain and sing and sorrow doth Thy mercy, Lord, transcend.

I dare look up! Thy promise made to me--

An humble creature, groping, will yet make me free.

Thy mighty plan, beyond my simple ken, assures

Thy love, surpassing human hope, protests me; still endures!

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