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d Kelly Markgraf, . Nashville Symphony Chorus (Chorus director: Tucker Biddlecombe) This project is supported in part DDD Nashville Symphony • Giancarlo Guerrero by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recorded: 12–13 May 2017 at Laura Turner Concert Hall,

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Producer: Tim Handley • Engineer: Gary Call . www.naxos.com 5

Booklet notes: John Harbison • The Latin sung texts and 5

S 8.559841 English translations are included in the booklet and 9 O 8

X may also be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/559841.htm 4 A

Publisher: Associated Music Publishers, Inc. 1 6 36943 98412 3 N Cover image by Tassie Karin (iStockphoto.com)