Vancouver Chamber Choir - Poetry in Music, The Conductors' Symposium Concert
09 Feb 2013
Vancouver, BC
Concert
Ryerson United Church (Kerrisdale)
8:00pm
Vancouver Chamber Choir
Jon Washburn
The choral art is a rich one, offering the double gift of both music and poetry. In this concert the Vancouver Chamber Choir, led by Jon Washburn and five conductors from the 33rd annual National Conductors' Symposium, performs music based on verse from some of the world's greatest poets: Goethe, Shakespeare, Auden, Whitman, Eliot, Rossetti, Dickinson and more. Truly a poetic feast in a choral fest! Also featuring Stephen Smith, piano.
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Vancouver Chamber Choir
Jon Washburn, conductor
Stephen Smith, piano
and five conductors from the National Conductors' Symposium
Robert Schumann Talismane Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Franz Schubert Chor der Engel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johannes Brahms Warum Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Rutter Blow, blow, thou winter wind William Shakespeare
Steven Sametz When he shall die William Shakespeare
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Double, double, toil and trouble William Shakespeare
Vincent Persichetti sam was a man E.E. Cummings
Lukas Foss Cool prayers Carl Sandburg
Stephen Chatman On the beach at night alone Walt Whitman
William Hawley My River runs to thee Emily Dickinson
Ralph Vaughan Williams Rest Christina Rossetti
Jon Washburn Lullaby Christina Rossetti
Alice Parker To Kathleen Edna St. Vincent Millay
Benjamin Britten Rosa Mystica Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Paynter New Hampshire T.S. Eliot
Benjamin Britten Blues W.H. Auden
Samuel Barber The Monk and his Cat W.H. Auden
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