The Chorale opens its 29th season this weekend. This is my fourth season with this excellent ensemble. This concert is all American music, with the focal work being Copland’s In the Beginning, a fantastic, rarely-performed setting of the first chapter and first seven verses of the second chapter of Genesis. We’re also doing Samuel Barber’s Reincarnations, which are beautiful staples of the American choral repertoire, as well as some really great arrangements of folk songs and tunes from the American shape-note tradition.
Anyways, if any of my followers near Hampton Roads are interested in hearing this concert, let me know, and I’ll make sure we have tickets for you. The full program is listed below:
William Billings (1746-1800) | I am the Rose of Sharon
tune: “McKay,” arr. Carol Barnett (b. 1949) | McKay (from An American Thanksgiving)
tune: “Prospect,” arr. Stephen Paulus (b. 1949) | The Road Home
tune: “Invitation,” arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925) | Hark, I hear the harps eternalAaron Copland (1900-1990) | In the Beginning
***INTERMISSION***
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) | Reincarnations: 1. Mary Hynes, 2. Anthony O’Daly, 3. The Coolin (The Fair Haired One)
Jack Gottlieb (1930-2011) | Advice from Honest Abe (from Presidential Suite)
Stephen Foster (1826-1864), arr. Jack Halloran (1916-1997) | Nelly Bly
arr. Libby Larsen (b. 1950) | Buffalo Gals (from Western Songs)
arr. James Erb (b. 1926) | Shenandoah
arr. Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927) | She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
It should be a really fantastic concert. Artistic Director Charles Woodward is conducting and we have the literally internationally-renowned mezzo-soprano Robynne Redmon singing the solo for In the Beginning. She’s sung major roles all over the world, including La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Berlin State Opera.
More information at the brand new Virginia Chorale website here.
Friday, October 12 | 8pm | First Presbyterian Church, Virginia Beach
Saturday, October 13 | 8pm | Williamsburg Presbyterian Church
Sunday, October 14 | 4pm | Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Norfolk
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The Chorale opens its 29th season next weekend. This is my fourth season with this excellent ensemble. This concert is all American music, with the focal work being Copland’s In the Beginning, a fantastic, rarely-performed setting of the first chapter and first seven verses of the second chapter of Genesis. We’re also doing Samuel Barber’s Reincarnations, which are beautiful staples of the American choral repertoire, as well as some really great arrangements of folk songs and tunes from the American shape-note tradition.
Anyways, if any of my followers near Hampton Roads are interested in hearing this concert, let me know, and I’ll make sure we have tickets for you. The full program is listed below:
William Billings (1746-1800) | I am the Rose of Sharon
tune: “McKay,” arr. Carol Barnett (b. 1949) | McKay (from An American Thanksgiving)
tune: “Prospect,” arr. Stephen Paulus (b. 1949) | The Road Home
tune: “Invitation,” arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925) | Hark, I hear the harps eternalAaron Copland (1900-1990) | In the Beginning
***INTERMISSION***
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) | Reincarnations: 1. Mary Hynes, 2. Anthony O’Daly, 3. The Coolin (The Fair Haired One)
Jack Gottlieb (1930-2011) | Advice from Honest Abe (from Presidential Suite)
Stephen Foster (1826-1864), arr. Jack Halloran (1916-1997) | Nelly Bly
arr. Libby Larsen (b. 1950) | Buffalo Gals (from Western Songs)
arr. James Erb (b. 1926) | Shenandoah
arr. Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927) | She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
It should be a really fantastic concert. Artistic Director Charles Woodward is conducting and we have the literally internationally-renowned mezzo-soprano Robynne Redmon singing the solo for In the Beginning. She’s sung major roles all over the world, including La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Berlin State Opera.
More information at the brand new Virginia Chorale website here.
Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning
Doing this with the Chorale in October. I’ve never actually listened to it before now, but it’s really cool.
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Today’s soundtrack, minus the Old American Songs because I just can’t today. I have to be in a very special mood to tolerate those (except Zion’s Walls, which I love).
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This is one of my favorite opera arias ever. Laurie’s entrance from Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land. Sung by Dawn Upshaw.
Once I thought I’d never grow tall as this fence. Time dragged heavy and slow. But April came and August went before I knew just what they meant, and little by little I grew. And as I grew I came to know how fast the time could go. Once I thought I’d never go outside this fence. This space was plenty for me. But I walked down the road one day and just what happened I can’t say, but little by little it came to be, that line between the earth and sky came beckoning to me. Now the time has grown short; the world has grown so wide. I’ll be graduated soon. Why am I strange inside? What makes me think I’d like to try to go down all those roads beyond that line above the earth and ‘neath the sky? Tomorrow when I sit upon the graduation platform stand, I know my hand will shake when I reach out to take that paper with the ribboned band. Now that all the learning’s done, O who knows what will now begin? O it’s so strange… I’m strange inside. The time has grown so short, the world so wide.
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Santa Clara Vanguard 2009 “A Ballet For Martha”
I think I’m the only person who liked this show. What can I say? I appreciate subtlety and I appreciate Copland.
I love Borders, so I don’t want it to be going out of business, but at the same time I want it to be eternally going out of business.
7 books today for $56.
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
- Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
- What To Listen for In Music by Aaron Copland
- WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy by David Leigh
- The Toughest Show On Earth: My Rise & Reign at the Metropolitan Opera by Joseph Volpe
- Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul
I’m really against illegal copying of sheet music/scores, but…
I really need Aaron Copland’s arrangement of At the River for voice and piano. ASAP. And nowhere has it available for purchase with instant download.
How is it possible that you can download the entirety of Charles Ives’ 114 Songs for free, but you can’t find one Copland piece?
