Category: Past Season

Voci’s 20th Anniversary Retrospective

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Lee Kim, Accompanist

Program

• Silvery Blue – Ann Callaway
• Wind & Stone – David Meckler
• Pollerita Roja – Gabriela Lena Frank
• All ‘Round the Maypole – Steven Clark
• On a Mountain Path – Peter Knell
  • natsu kodachi
  • sumiregusa
  • hibari yori
  • kiri shigure
  • tsuki no tomo
• Day Song – Libby Larsen
• Melodys of Earth and Sky – Stephen Paulus

Full Program (PDF)

Voci’s eleventh Voices in Peace concert offered soothing reflections on peace, birth and nature, including Charpentier’s pastoral setting of the nativity story from Luke — “In Nativitate Domini nostri Christi Canticum” H. 421, lush and romantic selections by Rheinberger, Rachmaninoff and Dvořák, as well as sublime and other-worldly selections by Britten and Harvey.

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Heather Heise, Piano and Organ

Program

• O Magnum Mysterium – Jakob Handl
• O Magnum Mysterium – Cristóbal de Morales
• In nativitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi canticum – Marc-Antoine Charpetier
• Puer Natus in Bethlehem – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
• Selections from Six Choruses for Treble Voices – Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Nochka (Night)
  • Sosna (The Pine)
• The Sleigh Ride – Traditional, Arr. Nedda Choruzi
• Two Latvian Carols – Andreis Jansons
  • Ziemas svētki sabraukuši (Winterfest)
  • Balts sniedziņš snieg uz skujiņām (A Gentle snow is on the ground)
• Two Moravian Duets – Antonín Dvořák
  • Možnost, from Op. 38 (Hoping in Vain)
  • Zelenaj se, zelenaj…, from Op. 32 (Grow Green)
• The Tree of Peace – Gwyneth Walker
• The Tree – Jonathan Harvey
• The Song of the Tree of Life – Ralph Vaughan Williams
• In the Bleak Midwinter – Gustav Holst
• In the Bleak Midwinter – Benjamin Britten
• Velvet Shoes – Mary Howe
• Day Break – Stephen Paulus

Full Program (PDF)

Music of Romantic Desire

An exploration of the power and passion of romantic desire, invoking Aphrodite — the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Featuring flirtatious English madrigals, ardent German partsongs, steamy Italian and French opera duets, provocative twentieth-century settings of Shakespeare by Britten, Finzi, Kodaly, and Vaughan Williams, sensual selections by Gwyneth Walker and Paul Carey, and more!

Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Heather Heise, Piano

Program

• Caro! Bella! – George Frideric Handel
• Pur ti miro, pur ti godo – Claudio Monteverdi
• Four Arms, Two Necks, One Wreathing – Thomas Weelkes
• It was a Lover and Her Lad – Thomas Morley
• Thus Sings My Dearest Jewel – Thomas Weelkes
• Le Tre Gratie a Venere – Barbara Strozzi
• “Ah, perdona al primo affetto” – Wolfgang A. Mozart
• Ständchen – Franz Schubert
• Love Songs from Liebeslieder-Walzer – Johannes Brahms
  • Wie des Abends schöne Röte (Like the sunset’s crimson splendor)
  • Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft (Bird in air will stray afar)
  • Nein Geliebter, setze dich (Seat thyself, my dearest heart)
• Selections from Cantigas de Amigo – Paul Carey
  • No puedo apartarme (I can’t give up)
  • Moreno mío (My dark-skinned lover)
• Selections from Songs for Women’s Voices – Gwyneth Walker
  • Love is a Rain of Diamonds
  • I Will Be Earth
• It was a Lover and Her Lad – Gerald Finzi
• Fancy – Zoltán Kodály
• An Immorality – Aaron Copland

Full Program (PDF)

Anne Hege, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Piano

Program

Part I: Home and Unity

• Hodie (This Day) – Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
• Beatus Vir (Blessed is the Man Who Shall Continue in Wisdom) – Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)
• In the Valley of the Moon – Felicia Sandler (b.1961)
• Night – Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
• Reverie – Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
• Beatus Homo (Blessed is the Man Who Findeth Wisdom) – Orlandus Lassus

Traveling

• Snow – Alan Vincent
• Oculus Non Vidit (The Eye Has Not Seen) – Orlandus Lassus
  • Justus Cor Suum Tradet (The Just Man Will Give His Heart)
  • Expectatio Justorum (The Expectation of the Righteous)

Part II: Away from Home

• Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons (Christmas Carol for Homeless Children) – Claude Debussy
• A Dark Raven – György Ligeti (1923-2006)
• To An Angel – Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)
• A German at Stalingrad – Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
• Qui Sequitur Me (He Who Followeth Me) – Orlandus Lassus

Traveling

• Flight – Anne Hege (b. 1976)
• Justi Tulerunt Spolia (Spoils of the Wicked) – Orlandus Lassus
• Sancti Mei (O My Saints) – Orlandus Lassus

Part III: Homecoming

• Peace Upon You, Jerusalem – Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
• All the Seasons – Poem by Susan Marquez Owen, accompanied by Peace Song, arranged by A. Hege
• Peace Song – Hanns Eisler
• Qui Vult Venire (He Who Will Come After Me) – Orlandus Lassus
  • Serve Bone (O Thou Good and Faithful Servant)
  • Fulgebunt Justi (The Righteous Shall Flower Forth)
  • Sicut Rosa (As a Rose)
• Linden Lea – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
• Hodie (Recessional) (This Day) – Benjamin Britten

Full Program (pdf)

A Banquet of Songs to Feed the Soul

A concert of songs that remind us of our better selves, bring us together, and speak to the heart with hope, balance, strength, innocence, and maturity. These are songs we can heed and ponder…songs to live by.

Anne Hege, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Piano
Davis Feeley, Oboe

Program

• How Can I Keep from Singing? – Robert Lowry, Arr. Pete Seeger
• ‘Tis the Gift to be Simple – American Shaker Hymn, Arr. Alice Parker
• At the River – Robert Lowry, Arr. for chorus by R. Wilding White, adapted by Aaron Copland
• Four Blake Songs (from “Songs of Innocence” by William Blake )- Karl Korte
  • Piping Down the Valleys
  • Infant Joy
  • A Cradle Song
  • Spring
• Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf! (Sleep, baby, sleep!) from “13 Kanons fur Frauenstimmen” – Johannes Brahms
• How Can I keep from Singing? – Robert Lowry
• Der Bräutigam (The Bridegroom) – Johannes Brahms
• Variations on a Theme by Rilke – Joan Szymko
• Eternity (from “Ten Blake Songs”) – Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram ((Sad love is always the same,from “13 Kanons für Frauenstimmen”) – Johannes Brahms
• Love is a Terrible Thing – Kirke Mechem
• We Are – Ysaye M. Barnwell
• To Be Sung on the Water – Samuel Barber
• As Emily Dickinson Mosaic – Daniel Pinkham
  • The Brain – is wider than the Sky
  • The Heart is the Capital of the Mind
  • The Mind lives on the Heart
  • To Be Alive
  • Exhilaration Is the Breeze
• The Piper (from “Ten Blake Songs”) – Ralph Vaughan Williams
• You Say there is No Love (from “The Winged Joy”) – Kirke Mechem
• So lange Schönheit wird bestehn (So long as beauty exists, from “13 Kanons für Frauenstimmen”) – Johannes Brahms
• An’s Auge des Liebsten (on the eye of the loved one, from “13 Kanons für Frauenstimmen”) – Johannes Brahms
• To My Old Brown Earth – Pete Seeger
• Gracias a la Vida (Thanks be to life) – Violeta Parra
• Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down – Traditional Spiritual, Arr. Paul Caldwell/Sean Ivory

Full Program (pdf)