Category: Past Season

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

Program

• Selections from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda – Gustav Holst
  • Hymn to the Dawn
  • Hymn to the Waters
• Les Angélus (The Calls to Angelus) – Claude Debussy, arr. Clytus Gottwald
• Hymn to Vena – Gustav Holst (from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda)
• Lullaby – Eve Beglarian
• Funeral Chant – Gustav Holst (from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda)
• Sanctus – Heitor Villa-Lobos (from Missa São Sebastião, Mass in honor of Saint Sebastian)
• I himmelen (In heaven) – Karin Rehnqvist
• Hymn of the Travellers – Gustav Holst (from Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda)
• Selections from Siddhartha Fragments – Jude Navari, Text by Hermann Hesse
  • Beautiful is the World
  • Everywhere at Once
  • The River Has Many Voices
• Malolo – Annea Lockwood
• Moni kakku päältä kaunis – Pekka Kostiainen (You can’t judge a book by its cover)
  • Armahan kulku (The Lover’s Path)
  • Onpa tietty tietyssäni (I am Thinking of a Particular One)
  • Voi, kun mie mokoman saisin (If Only I Could Have Such a One)
• It was the winter wild – Ralph Vaughan Williams 
• Durme, Durme (Sleep, Sleep) – Arr. Alice Parker
• Peace Upon You, Jerusalem – Arvo Pärt
• Lullaby – Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Cape Breton Lullaby – Kenneth Leslie, arr. Stuart Calvert

The lasting influence of Hildegard von Bingen and Nadia Boulanger.

Dr. Anne Hege, Conductor
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Piano
Jon Weiner, Percussion

Program

• O virtus sapientiae – Hildegard von Bingen
• April is in my mistress’ face – Thomas Morley
• Virgam virtutis tuae – Marianna Martines
• Sanctus – Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Ave Maria Op. 12 – Johannes Brahms
• De Sancta Maria O viridissima virga – Hildegard von Bingen
• Ave Maria – Gustav Holst
• To an Angel – Ruth Crawford Seeger
• Lullaby – Eve Beglarian
• Magnificat – Paul Chihara
• Élégie – Nadia Boulanger
• Excerpts from Black Tambourine – Thea Musgrave
  • North Labrador
  • Legend
  • My Grandmother’s Love Letters
  • Pastorale
• Gliding O’er All – Ned Rorem
• Metamorphosis – Philip Glass
• At the River – Robert Lowry, Adopted by Aaron Copland, Arr. by R. Wilding White
• An Immorality – Aaron Copland, Arr. Daniel Pinkham
• Elle a vendu mon coeur – Nadia Boulanger
• Excerpt from Henry Purcell – Ann Callaway
• Les Sirènes – Lili Boulanger
• Libertango – Astor Piazzolla, Arr. Oscar Escalada

Full Program (pdf)

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

Full Program (pdf)

Traces of a Vanishing World

A wry and nostalgic musical exploration of aspects of daily life that are no longer part of our world today.

Dr. Anne K. Hege, Artistic Director
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Kate Campbell, Accompanist

Program

• Fire, Fire My Heart – Thomas Morley
• In Autumn – Gwyneth Walker
• Lost is my Quiet – Henry Purcell
• Five Fragments of Jade, op. 40 – Jenő Takács
  • I. Song On the River
  • II. The Leaf On the Water
  • III. The Fisherman
  • IV. Intoxication of Love
  • V. On the River
• Far from home – György Ligeti
  • Lament
  • A dark raven
  • Once the forest
  • Summer sends a gentle breeze
• Gesang aus Fingal (Song from Fingal) – Johannes Brahms
• Songs of Land, Sea and Air – Gustav Holst
  • Song of the Shoemakers
  • Song of the Fishermen
  • The Corn Song
  • Song of the Lumbermen
  • Song of the Ship-builders
• Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten (We hasten with weak, yet eager steps) – Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ach! Synku Synku (Oh! My son, My son) – Czech Folk Song Arr. Donald Patriquin
• Hoj, hura hoj! – Otmar Macha
• On Music and Nature: Three Hopkins Settings (premiere) – Ann Callaway
  • Henry Purcell
  • Moonrise June 19, 1876
  • The Woodlark
• What Can We Poor Females Do? – Henry Purcell
• Women Should be Pedestals – Gwyneth Walker
• Women on the Plains
  • Old Grandma
  • Away, Far down the River
  • Punching the Dough
• Opening chorus from “The Bartered Bride” – Bedřich Smetana Arr. Emily Ellsworth
• Songs of Land, Sea and Air – Gustav Holst
  • Clouds O’er the Summer Sky
  • Round from ‘The Perfect Fool’
• La Lluvia (The Rain) – Stephen Hatfield
• Singing in the Rain – Nacio Herb Brown, Text by Arthur Freed, Arr. Anita Kerr

Full Program (pdf)

Celebrating 25 years of Voci

Dr. Anne K. Hege, Conductor
Edna Yeh, Assistant Conductor
Anne Rainwater, Piano and Organ

Program

• Rise Up My Love – Eleanor Daley

• Queen Jane – Traditional (Arr. Stephen Hatfield)

• Rose, liz, printemps, verdure (Rose, lily, springtime, greenery) – Guillaume de Machaut

• Lullaby – Eve Beglarian

• Tota pulchra es (Thou art all fair)- Maurice Durufle

• Canticum Sponsae (Song of the Bride, from the Book of Solomon) – Erzebet Szonyi

• Einformig ist der Liebe Gram (Sad love is always the same) – Johannes Brahms

• Ave Maria – Gustav Holst

• Dirait-on (So They Say) – Morten Lauridsen

• I himmelen (In Heaven) – Traditional (Arr. Karin Rehnqvist)

• Siddhartha Fragments – Jude Navari
  • Beautiful is the World
  • Everything is One

• Group #7 from Gyermek-es noikarok – Bela Bartok
  • Banat (Sorrow/Grief)
  • Ne Lattalak Volna (If Only I Had Never Seen You)
  • Element a Madarka (The Little Bird is Gone)

• Lift Thine Eyes – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

• Ave Maria – Francis Poulenc

• Missa Brevis in D, op. 63 – Benjamin Britten
  • Kyrie
  • Gloria in excelsis Deo
  • Sanctus
  • Benedictus
  • Agnus Dei

• Dona Nobis Pacem

Full Program (pdf)

“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

Full Program (pdf)

Voci members (past & present): $165
Nonmembers: $215

Registration deadline January 15, 2021

This 6-week online course, taught by Voci Artistic Director Mitchell Covington, is for choral singers who want to hone their musical understanding and sight-reading ability.

Class size will be 8–10 students.

Musical terms and concepts will be introduced with visual and audio examples and clear, useful handouts. This interactive class will include lots of practice and opportunities to ask questions in real time. Light homework will be assigned each week.

To participate in this session, you should already know:

• How to sight-read basic rhythms and melodies
• Interval concepts (what is a 3rd? what is a 7th?)
  • You do not need to know about major/minor intervals; you will master this by the end of the course
• Key signatures; sharp keys: G, D, A and E major and flat keys: F, B♭, E♭ and A♭ major
• The pattern of whole steps and half steps in a major scale
• Triads (you will learn more about triads in this course)
• Tonic and dominant, root and fifth
• Ledger lines
• Triplets

A link for access to the online workshop will be sent by mid-January to all registered participants.

Voci members (past & present): $150
Nonmembers: $210

This 6-week online course, taught by Voci Artistic Director Mitchell Covington, is for choral singers who want to hone their musical understanding and sight-reading ability.

Class size will be 8–16 students.

Musical terms and concepts will be introduced with visual and audio examples and clear, useful handouts. This interactive class will include lots of practice and opportunities to ask questions in real time. Light homework will be assigned each week.

To participate in this session, you should already know:

• Note names on the treble staff and on the piano
• The meaning of white and black keys on the piano
• Note values, including whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note and sixteenth note
• What the dot in a dotted note does
• Accidentals (flat, sharp, natural) and how they work
• Bar lines, measures and meter
• The number of beats in one measure of a given piece of music

A link for access to the online workshop will be sent by mid-September to all registered participants.