Free admission.
The program explores the multiple dimensions of pain together with hope. Issues of war, death, longing are raised by pieces that make us disquieted and unsettled, but in other pieces, a redemptive view of humanity is offered. Works by Möller, JS Bach, Antognini, Monteverdi, Barnett, Mortensen/Sommerro, Augustinas, Tallis, Abu-Khader/de Quadros, Chilcott, Burleigh, and Elberdin, together with body imagery and improvisations.
Special Guests: VOICES 21C
Katya Anoshkin, Lauren Extrom, Caroline Olsen, Athalya Salim, Carey Shunskis - Soprano
Anais Azul, Cheryl Engelhardt, Megan Helm, Nicolette Mingels, Mariah Wilson - Alto
Michael Genese, Sam Kjellberg, Trey Pratt, Chad Putka, Sean Watland - Tenor
Ryan Brown, Jamal Fairbanks, Paul Mansfield, Sean Marsh, Dalton Weaner - Bass
Works:
Trilo - trad./arr. by A. Möller (1955-)
Unter deinem Schirmen - "Jesu, meine Freude" BWV 227 J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Text by Johann Frank
There Will Come Soft Rains - Ivo Antognini (1963-) Text by Sara Teasdale
Quel Augellin - Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Text by Giovanni Battista Guarini
The King Of Yellow Butterflies - Carol Barnett (1949-) Text by Vachel Lindsay
Til Ungdommen - Otto Mortensen, arr. by Henning Sommerro (1952-) Text by Nordahl Grieg
Anoj Pusej Dunojelio - Vaclovas Augustinas (1959-)
If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) text JOHN 14:15-17
Weicht, ihr Trauergeister - "Jesu, meine Freude" BWV 227 J.S. Bach (1685-1750) text Romans 8:1-2,9-11
Adinu - Shireen Abu-Khader & André de Quadros
The Gift To Be Simple - trad./arr. by Bob Chilcott (1955-)
My Lord, What A Mornin' - African-American spiritual arranged by H.T. Burleigh (1866-1949)
Cantate Domino - Josu Elberdin (1976-) Text Psalm 98:1
André de Quadros, artistic director
Press Release - Poster - Program Book
VOICES 21C is a Boston-based, project chamber choir under the artistic direction of Professor André de Quadros of Boston University. The choir consists of approximately twenty-four advanced and professional singers from the northeastern United States. Exploring repertoire from various cultures, periods, styles, and languages, VOICES 21C approaches performances with creativity, joy, hope, playfulness, body imagery, and deep interaction with the audience. VOICES 21C gave its first performance to a standing ovation at the historic mid-sixteenth century church in Vallouise. The concert was part of France’s CHORALP Rencontres Chorales Internationales, July 2016. The performance on October 9 is the choir’s first US concert.
Venue:
The Boston University College of Fine Arts, at 855 Commonwealth Avenue, is located on the B branch of the MBTA Green Line, at Boston University West stop and it is wheelchair-accessible.
André de Quadros, artistic director
