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EARTH/SEA/SKY - Music of our Natural World: Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (Conductor)
Music celebrates nature in a million ways and a million pieces. Our opening conc...
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Fri. September 30th 2016 + Add to Calendar
Ryerson United Church
8:00pm - 10:00pm Doors at: 7:00pm
$29-$33
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Music celebrates nature in a million ways and a million pieces. 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. Music of Morley, Monteverdi, Weelkes, Josquin, Schumann, Whitacre, Britten, Barber, Chatman, Chilcott and more.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
Tickets: $29-$33
Available Aug 15 at ticketmaster.ca 1-855-985-2787
Student rush tickets $10 at the door
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