The power and poetry of lamentation has captured the expressive imagination of composers throughout the centuries. In our first concert of the 2024-2025 season, VAE weaves various settings of Lamentation texts with its counterpart, Exultation, including the great Renaissance motet "How Are the Mighty Fallen" by Robert Ramsey, the Michigan premiere of Theo Morrison's "Sicilian Muses," the music of the Supremes, and much more. Performed seamlessly, Lamentations and Exultations brings out both the cries from the abyss and the shouts from the rooftops to dramatic effect.