The Beauty of Distant Things
A radiant selection of music that invokes the sun, moon, and stars, and that voices the longing, love, and other complex emotions they inspire.
Anne Hege, Conductor
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Piano
Program
- My Star – Bedřich Smetana
- RADIANCE
- Like Roots – Anne Hege
- Hodie apparuit in Israel – Orlando di Lasso
- Angelus ad pastores ait – Claudio Monteverdi
- Hodie Christus natus est – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Under Heaven’s Radiance – Swedish Folk Song, Arr. Paul Hendrickson
- The Angel Night – Sergei Rachmaninoff
- SUN
- Tota pulchra es – Maurice Duruflé
- Song of the Sun – Carl Orff
- Wie des Abends schöne Röte – Johannes Brahms
- The sun, whose rays are all ablaze – W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
- Blue Skies – Irving Berlin, Arr. Ron Caviani
- My Star – Smetana
- Henry Purcell – Ann Callaway
- MOON
- Moonrise June 19, 1876 (Premiere) – Ann Callaway
- Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends – Fanny Mendelssohn
- La luna se enoja – René Amengual
- STARS
- A Ma Lei A Ho – Tibetan Folk Song, Arr. Chen Yi
- Haitian Noel – Joseph Augustin, Arr. Felix A. Baptiste
- PEACE
- A gentle snow is on the ground – Andrejs Jansons
- Ma navu – Yossi Spivak, Arr. Shira Cion