Vocalise – 12/31/16
I hope you enjoy this all 20th century choral music program which includes Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms.” This is a poem Bernstein wrote about his 1965 journey writing the iconic work:
These psalms are a simple and modest affair,
Tonal and tuneful and somewhat square,
Certain to sicken a stout John Cager
With its tonics and triads and E-flat major.
But there it stands-the result of my pondering,
Two long months of avant-garde wandering—
My youngest child, old-fashioned and sweet,
And he stands on his own two tonal feet.
8:00 PM
Francis Poulenc Exultate Deo (1941) Collegium 108
COND John Rutter
ORCH City of London Sinfonia
SOLO Cambridge Singers
8:02 PM
Maurice Durufle Messe “Cum Jubilo” Delos 3169
COND Dennis Keene
ORCH Voices of Ascension
SOLO Patricia Spence,alto
SOLO Francois Le Roux, baritone
8:21 PM
Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms Hyperion 66219
COND Matthew Best
SOLO Corydon Singers
SOLO Dominic Martelli, boy soprano
SOLO Rachel Masters, harp
SOLO Gary Kettel, percussion
SOLO Thomas Trotter, organ
18:47 C 1 1-3
8:39 PM
Randall Thompson Cantata. Feast of Praise Bayer 1011
COND Robert Shewan
ORCH Roberts Wesleyan College Chorale
