Presented By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance
University Choir and Chamber Choir
This performance will be live-streamed here: http://www.music.umich.edu/live-stream/
Pre-concert lecture with Jessica Allen at 7:15 PM in the lower lobby.
Eugene Rogers, conductor, University Choir, Jerry Blackstone, conductor, Chamber Choir, Scott VanOrnum, organ, Matthew Abernathy, graduate student conductor.
Kodaly’s dramatic Missa brevis for organ and choir forms the core of the Chamber Choir’s portion of the concert. Shawn Kirchner’s arrangements are known for their masterful use of color, poignancy, and depth of expression. The University Choir’s portion of the concert features David Lang’s the little match girl passion which uses a powerful text by the composer based on the children’s story The Little Match Girl by Han Christian Andersen and influenced by Picander’s text of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Lang was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for this powerful work for soloists, choir, and small percussion that juxtaposes both suffering and hope. The performance of the Lang piece will have interpolated spirituals arranged by Michael Tippett from his oratorio A Child of Our Time.
PROGRAM: Chamber Choir: Kodaly- Missa brevis; Brahms- Geistliches Lied, op. 30; Kirchner- Unclouded Day, Angel Band, Hallelujah. University Choir: Lang- the little match girl passion; Tippet- Five African-American Spirituals; Tallis- Salvator mundi; Weelkes- Hosanna to the Son of David
Pre-concert lecture with Jessica Allen at 7:15 PM in the lower lobby.
Eugene Rogers, conductor, University Choir, Jerry Blackstone, conductor, Chamber Choir, Scott VanOrnum, organ, Matthew Abernathy, graduate student conductor.
Kodaly’s dramatic Missa brevis for organ and choir forms the core of the Chamber Choir’s portion of the concert. Shawn Kirchner’s arrangements are known for their masterful use of color, poignancy, and depth of expression. The University Choir’s portion of the concert features David Lang’s the little match girl passion which uses a powerful text by the composer based on the children’s story The Little Match Girl by Han Christian Andersen and influenced by Picander’s text of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Lang was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for this powerful work for soloists, choir, and small percussion that juxtaposes both suffering and hope. The performance of the Lang piece will have interpolated spirituals arranged by Michael Tippett from his oratorio A Child of Our Time.
PROGRAM: Chamber Choir: Kodaly- Missa brevis; Brahms- Geistliches Lied, op. 30; Kirchner- Unclouded Day, Angel Band, Hallelujah. University Choir: Lang- the little match girl passion; Tippet- Five African-American Spirituals; Tallis- Salvator mundi; Weelkes- Hosanna to the Son of David
Cost
- Free - no tickets required
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