Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, Conductor
Thu, Jan 14 at 8pm
One of America’s most renowned choral ensembles the Westminster Choir has performed with major orchestras under virtually every internationally known conductor of the last 70 years, including more than 300 performances with the New York Philharmonic alone!
The concert program, which is entitled “Flower of Beauty,” will feature works from the ensemble’s recently released recording of the same name, including James Erb’s arrangement of Shenandoah, Dominick Argento’s So I’ll Sing with My Voice and John Clements’ Flower of Beauty. A highlight will be Paul Crabtree’s Meanwhile, which was written to commemorate the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. This powerful setting of a portion of Simon Armitage’s poem Killing Time uses the images of flowers to contrast with the horror of that tragic event. The choir will also perform Trois Chansons Bretonnes by Henk Badings, three beautiful works for piano and chorus that take the listener into the dream world with rich settings akin to a musical Monet, and Stephen Leek’s Knowee, which reflects the Great South Land of Australia and calls across space like distant echoes in the desert.
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