PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
“The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:13
A confrontation of ancient thought and perception surrounding the sin of Eve in the Garden of Eden and the subsequent redemption of women in the Virgin Mary, as treated by medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Featuring the voices and poetry of young women and a newly commissioned community-sung work by Chanda Rule, interwoven with the ecstatic songs of Hildegard von Bingen.