BOISE STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHOIRS

The Cosmos Sings

…from the stars above to the soul within.

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 · 7:30 PM

Morrison Center Main Hall

Join us for The Cosmos Sings, a powerful program performed by Boise State University Choirs and Symphony Orchestra—music shaped by the wonder of the universe, from the grandeur of creation to the quiet refuge of the inner world. This concert will also feature the winner of the 2026 Concerto-Aria Competition.

The evening opens with Part I of Haydn’s Creation, a choral and orchestral masterpiece that vividly depicts the dawn of the world—light, sky, sea, and stars bursting into being. In response to this oratorio, we offer Dan Forrest’s i thank You God for most this amazing day, a radiant setting of e.e. cummings’ poem that celebrates the joy and reverence of simply being alive within such a magnificent creation. The journey concludes with a choral arrangement of Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, a hauntingly beautiful meditation on retreating from the turmoil of the external world to find peace in the sanctuary of the human soul.