“Beautiful is the World” comes from former Voci director, Jude Navari’s dazzling seven-movement work, Siddhartha Fragments, which explores Buddhist philosophy through text from Hermann Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha.
Mitchell Covington, Guest Conductor
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Anne Rainwater, Accompanist
Program
- Siddhartha Fragments (Premiere) – Jude Navari, Text by Herman Hesse
- Beautiful is the World
- Everywhere at Once
- This is a Beautiful River
- The River has Many Voices
- The River Sings
- I Listen
- Everything is One
- Am an Ocean (Premiere) – Julie Herndon
- Renouncement (Premiere) – Edna Yeh, Poem by Alice Meynell
- Qasida of Breath (Premiere) – Mitchell Covington, Poem by Deema Shehabi
- Three Russian Songs (Premiere) – Based on Traditional Russian Melodies – Arkadi Serper
- Svadebnaia (Wedding Song)
- Kolybelnaia (Lullaby)
- Pliasovaia (Dancing Song)
- The Peace of Wild Things – Joan Szymko, Text by Wendell Berry