11.11.16 Choirs
Viking Chorale, Cantala, Concert Choir – Friday, November 11, 2016, 8:00p.m.
Speaking Out
Phillip A. Swan & Stephen M. Sieck, conductors
Guest artists:
Erin Lesser, flute
Wen-Lei Gu, violin
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VIKING CHORALE
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
From Nabucco
Va, Pensiero
Gustav Ernesaks (1908-1993)
Mu isamaa on minu arm
arr. James Quitman Mulholland (b. 1935)
How Can I Keep From Singing?
CANTALA
Ambrož Čopi (b. 1973)
Alleluia, Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes
World Premiere
Jake Runestad (b. 1986)
Sing, Wearing the Sky
Isabel Dammann, violin
Irene Durbak, percussion
Moira Smiley (b. 1976)
I Have a Voice
2015 ACDA Women's Choir Consortium Commission
Andrea Ramsey (b. 1977)
Truth
Irene Durbak, percussion
2014 ACDA Women's Choir Consortium Commission
Joan Szymko (b. 1957)
Variations on a Theme by Rilke
CONCERT CHOIR
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
The March of the Women
Jena Root
From Pipings: from the Memoirs of Ethel Smyth
March of the People
Erin Lesser, flute
Shaye Swanson, soprano
Octet:
Elisabeth Burmeister, Froya Olson,
Lauren Vanderlinden, Shaye Swanson,
Jackson Rosenberry, Matt Kierzek,
Yonah Barany, and PJ Uhazie
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
La Menace des Francs
Luke Honeck, Christian Messier,
Alex Quackenbush, and John Perkins
Mark Carlson (b. 1952)
Common Link
Wen-Lei Gu, violin
William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Plain-Chant for America