Vancouver Chamber Choir and Jon Washburn, Conductor. Music celebrates nature in a million ways and a million pieces.
Date/Time: Sep 30 2016, 8:00 pm to 9:35 pm
Vancouver, Ryerson United ChurchCost: $29.00
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Our opening concert of the season presents just a few of these under the guise of natural madrigals, romantic wilderness, shadowwater, dreamwater, Formosan skies, riddles, water, sun, wind and rain.
Repertoire
Thomas Morley - Now is the gentle season/The fields abroad
Claudio Monteverdi - Ecco mormorar l’onde
Thomas Weelkes - Thule, the period of Cosmography
Josquin des Prez - El grillo
Robert Schumann - An die Sterne, Op. 141, No. 1
Robert Schumann - Ungewisses Licht, Op. 141, No. 2
Robert Schumann – Talismane, Op. 141, No. 4
Eric Whitacre - Water Night
Jon Washburn - Bird-Rain-Sky (Songs of Taiwan)
William Bergsma - Riddle Me This
Benjamin Britten - Carry her over the water (from Paul Bunyan)
Don Macdonald - Winter Sun
David von Kampen - Before this autumn wind
Samuel Barber - To Be Sung on the Water, Op. 42, No. 2
Stephen Chatman - Voices of Earth: Snow
Bob Chilcott - Weather Report
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