We Hold These Truths performance by UVA University Singers

The UVA University Singers, directed by Michael Slon, is presenting an America250 Anniversary Concert that features Shatin’s We Hold These Truths, on  April 10, 2026 in UVA’s Old Cabell Hall in Charlottesville, VA. Commissioned by the University of Virginia on the occasion of Jefferson’s 250th Birthday, We Hold These Truths is a setting of a large excerpt of the Declaration of Independence. Scored for chorus, brass quintet and tympani, it was premiered on UVA’s storied Lawn following Gorbachev’s keynote address. The concert also includes Todd Frazier’s more recent piece of the same name, as well as music of Randall Thompson and George Bristow and patriotic favorites.