The Promise of Living - A Virtual Concert
Company: The Spectrum Singers
We are offering a program of uplifting, life-affirming choral music to spread some much-needed hope and joy to our community. Please join us!
Admission is free but reservations are required; please use the URL shown below. Donations are encouraged to help defray production costs and support ongoing programming.
Program:
• My Spirit Sang All Day - Gerald Finzi’s triumphant shout of joy - celebrates ardent and fervent love.
• Ubi Caritas - Maurice Duruflé’s reverent Latin motet has as its opening text - “Where love and charity abide, God is present.”
• Virgil Thomson’s Rose Cheek’d Laura, Come artfully sets verse by Thomas Campion, a highly regarded British poet and lute-song composer. The song extolls the beauty and delight of a comely young lady.
• American composer Matthew Harris has a special affinity for William Shakespeare’s verse. O Mistress Mine tells of the fleeting nature of youth and the need to love now rather than later.
• Norman Dello Joio’s A Jubilant Song - a jazzy and appropriately upbeat setting of a Walt Whitman text - zestfully celebrates joy and life.
• Aaron Copland’s The Promise of Living brilliantly and upliftingly closes the first act of his 1954-composed opera The Tender Land.
• Talkback with selected performers and John W. Ehrlich, Music Director, immediately following the concert
Admission is free but reservations are required; please use the URL shown below. Donations are encouraged to help defray production costs and support ongoing programming.
Program:
• My Spirit Sang All Day - Gerald Finzi’s triumphant shout of joy - celebrates ardent and fervent love.
• Ubi Caritas - Maurice Duruflé’s reverent Latin motet has as its opening text - “Where love and charity abide, God is present.”
• Virgil Thomson’s Rose Cheek’d Laura, Come artfully sets verse by Thomas Campion, a highly regarded British poet and lute-song composer. The song extolls the beauty and delight of a comely young lady.
• American composer Matthew Harris has a special affinity for William Shakespeare’s verse. O Mistress Mine tells of the fleeting nature of youth and the need to love now rather than later.
• Norman Dello Joio’s A Jubilant Song - a jazzy and appropriately upbeat setting of a Walt Whitman text - zestfully celebrates joy and life.
• Aaron Copland’s The Promise of Living brilliantly and upliftingly closes the first act of his 1954-composed opera The Tender Land.
• Talkback with selected performers and John W. Ehrlich, Music Director, immediately following the concert
For more information visit
https://spectrumsingers.org/2021-may-virtual-concert/, 7:30 pm
The Spectrum Singers
PO Box 382325
Cambridge, MA 02238-2325
United States
Type:
Chorus