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2007-2008 Concert Season
The Passionate Art
Three Choral Composers
Dominick Argento, Peter Quince at
the Clavier
J.S. Bach, Jesu Meine Freude
Tchaikovsky, Russian Secular Songs
Bridget Convey, accompanist
Saturday, November 17, 2007, 7:30
p.m.
Second
Congregational Church, Newcastle
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 3:00 p.m.
Sacred
Heart Church, Yarmouth
The Oratorio Chorale celebrates the
80th birthday of the great American composer, Dominick Argento, by
performing his engaging and passionate setting for chorus and piano
concertante of Wallace Stevens' Peter Quince at the Clavier.
Argento shares the program with two other luminaries of the music
world as the Chorale presents J.S. Bach's richly varied and dramatic
Jesu Meine Freude and Tchaikovsky's melodious secular songs
rejoicing in the beauties of nature.
Wind Power
Music
for Brass, Winds, and Chorus
Anton
Bruckner, Mass in E minor
Giovanni
Gabrieli, In Ecclesiis, Jubilate Deo
with
the Maine Chamber Ensemble
Saturday,
March 8, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
First Parish Church, Brunswick
Sunday,
March 9, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Sacred Heart Church, Yarmouth
Dark,
expansive, tender, Anton Bruckner's Mass in E minor stands as
a major work by a major composer that is rarely presented to
audiences today. With orchestra accompanying eight-part
chorus, this is choral music performed on a symphonic scale,
demonstrating both wind power and contrapuntal splendor. As
organist for St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, the 17th-century
composer Gabrieli discovered the special antiphonal effects
obtainable in the structure and composed his motets, such as In
Ecclesiis, utilizing those effects with brass and voice.
The Spirit
of Joy
Giacomo
Puccini, Messa di Gloria
Ludwig von
Beethoven, Mass in C
with the Maine Chamber Ensemble and
Bonnie Scarpelli, soprano
Sara Sturdivant, alto
Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor
Peter Allen, baritone
Saturday,
May 17, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Orion Performing Arts Center, Topsham
Sunday,
May 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
State Street Church, Portland
Another
birthday! The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the
birth of Giacomo Puccini--a perfect opportunity to present Puccini's
joyous and utterly engaging Messa di Gloria, composed when he
was only 22 years old. Beethoven's Mass in C, a lyrical
and uplifting gem, rounds out a program imbued with the spirit of
joy. Gloria!
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