To welcome audiences back to in-person performances, the Academy of Sacred Drama will present a concert celebrating emergence from darker times. Bass-baritone Jonathan Woody will join the Academy in performing Alessandro Stradella's Crudo mar di fiamme orribili, a cantata about holding on to hope in order to weather storms. This work was first performed by the Academy in their initial virtual format concert in fall 2020 and will be revived here for the return to live performances. Stradella's motet Exultate in Deo will offer a celebratory note along with instrumental selections by Giovanni Legrenzi and Massimiliano Neri.