The Thirteen is a professional choir celebrated for re-imagining the potential of vocal music. For this program, US In Our Time, the ensemble explores American voices and contemporary stories through the frame of relationships: with lovers, with family, with the other, and with our country. In a series of scenes, The Thirteen explores how music reflects and shapes our place in the world. Featuring a World Premiere commission from Ashi Day, and works by Ted Hearne, Scott Ordway, Pulitzer Prize–winner Caroline Shaw, and more, The Thirteen performs music that blends intimate personal narratives with broader social reflection, creating a portrait of our time in sound. From their base in Washington DC, they have earned major awards, held residences at nearly twenty universities, and have been hailed “exquisite in every way” by Gramophone.