Death of Classical returns to the Cathedral with the world premiere of a new cantata by composer and double bassist extraordinaire Doug Balliett. Balliet's work explores the twisted history of relics and martyrs and will be woven together with selections from Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri and Caroline Shaw's to the hands, combining to create a centuries-spanning outpouring of love, longing, and hope that the future will somehow be more just than our past, and our present.

Performing the program will be an early-music supergroup, made up of 5 singers and 7 instrumentalists from two of NYC's most boundary-breaking musical collectives: vocal chamber ensemble The New Consort and period-instrument band Theotokos.