Amidst the storm that was Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Max Josef Metzger served as a beacon of hope and an ardent voice calling for peace and spiritual unity prior to his execution at the hands of the Nazi party in 1944. Charleston-based, Irish composer Cormac O’Duffy has set the words of this great Catholic priest in a cantata titled “Gefängnisgedichte” (Prison Poems), performed by the Taylor Festival Choir. In the spirit of the ecumenical unity sought by Metzger, the concert will open with the great Catholic motet “Beatus Vir” by Claudio Monteverdi, and close with J.S. Bach’s exuberant Lutheran motet “Singet dem Herrn.”