A celebration of life, love and the yearning for peace with music by Lassus, Bach, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Egert, Nez, Serper, and choral treasures from around the world.
Category: Past Season
Voices in Peace: A Holiday Concert Celebrating Peace and Goodwill
Across the Great, Wide Sea
Mostly music from and inspired by Asia.
Featuring music by Holst, Chilcott, Schafer, and traditional folksong settings.
Once Upon a Time
Music of Myth, Magic and Legend
Featuring Johannes Brahms’ “Four Songs,” Amy Beach’s “The Sea-Fairies,” Henry Hadley’s cantata “The Fairy Thorn,” and Felix Mendelssohn’s Two Fairy Songs from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Voices in Peace II: Choral Treasures from the Baroque Era
Second annual holiday concert honoring the Global Fund for Women.
Featuring music by Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, Rossi, Schütz and Cozzolani.
American Pilgrimage
A Spiritual Journey Through American Choral Music
Featuring music by Libby Larsen, Jude Navari, Alice Parker, and Vincent Persichetti. Spirituals arranged by Jacqueline Hairston. Early American Sacred Songs by the Shakers. Appalachian Folksongs arranged by Ron Nelson. World premiere of commissioned piece by Oakland composer Steven Clark.
Voices in Peace III: The Promise of Peace
Song Lines
From Generation to Generation
Voices in Peace IV: Litanies and Lullabies
Listen to the Elements: Music of Earth, Water, Air and Fire
Jude Navari, Artistic Director
Heather Heise, Piano
Dan Levitan, Harp
Beth Milne & Erin Vang, French Horn
Program
Voices in Peace V: Psalms and Canticles of Praise and Comfort
Jude Navari, Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist
Shana Kirsch, Cello
Program
- Canticle of the Creatures – Sister Theophane Hytrek
- In Pace – Orlandus Lassus
- Congratulamini Mihi Omnes – Jacob Handl
- Laudate Pueri – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
- Laudate Pueri Dominum, op 39 no. 2 – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Cantique de Jean Racine, op 11 – Gabriel Faure
- Psalm 150 – Cesar Franck
- Laudate Pueri Dominum – Michael Haydn
- Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Psalm 150 – Zoltan Kodaly
- Psalm 23 – The Lord is my Shepherd – Randall Thompson
- Priere de Saint Francois d’Assise – Jacques Chailley
- The Canticle of the Sun – Libby Larsen
How Can We Keep From Singing?
Jude Navari, Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist
Program
- Hark! How the Songsters of the Grove – Henry Purcell
- Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying
- Ludate Pueri Dominum – Michael Haydn
- Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends – Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn
- Abshied
- Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Faure
- “Belle nuit, o nuit d’ amour” (Barcarolle) – Jacques Offenbach
- “Viens, Mallika…Dome epais le jasmin” – Leo Delibes
- Sonate for Piano Four Hands – Francis Poulenc
- Prelude
- Rustique
- Final
- ‘Tis the Gift to be Simple – American Shaker Hymn Arr. Alice Parker
- Wade in the Watah – Traditional Negro Spiritual Arr. Ysaye M. Barnwell