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Chronos in rehearsal:
Here's a different section of the Missa Brevis by Zolán Kodály. This one really raises the rafters and shakes the floor with the organ work of our collaborator, Jeremy Spurgeon!
Join us to hear it all on Saturday Feb 7 at 7:30 in All Saints' Anglican Cathedral, Edmonton
Tickets and more info at chronosvocalensemble.com/uplifted/
Preparations for Uplifted are in their final stages, and it's going to be a great concert!
Here's a sneak peek at Chronos rehearsing Eric Whitacre's Alleluia, one of a trio of works on the program that feature music reworked from an instrumental piece to a sacred vocal work: Alleluia, Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei, and Zoltan Kodaly's Missa Brevis.
Join us to hear all three on Saturday, Feb 7 at 7:30 pm in All Saints' Anglican Cathedral, Edmonton!
Tickets and more info at chronosvocalensemble.com/uplifted
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Chronos Vocal Ensemble's "Uplifted" is just around the corner, including Eric Whitacre's "Alleluia" which shares several features with other works on the program: rich harmony, a memorable soprano solo, and an origin in music for instrumental ensemble.
Having assiduously avoided music that could have a liturgical function for most of his early career, Whitacre describes how the experience of singing services at Sydney Sussex College in Cambridge University in 2010 encouraged him to set a simple Alleluia to his earlier work for wind symphony, "October".
To prime your ears, here's the composer conducting this work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV-6DeSOY7U
Join us on Saturday Feb 7 for music spanning the ages, music chosen to soothe, inspire, and uplift the soul in troubled times, a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit and the power of music to transcend darkness.
Tickets at chronosvocalensemble.com/uplifted/
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Chronos Vocal Ensemble's next concert is just around the corner! Join us on the evening of Saturday February 7.
Uplifted draws inspiration from its setting: the magnificent, lofty sanctuary of All Saints Cathedral, perfectly suited for choral singing.
Uplifted draws inspiration from our collaborators: Cathedral organist Jeremy Spurgeon and the Canadian-built 1959 Casavant organ he plays.
Uplifted presents music that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of music to transcend darkness with music to uplift the soul in troubled times.
The program will include:
Missa Brevis by Kodaly - written and premiered in the dark closing days of WWII Budapest;
Samuel Barber's stunning Agnus Dei - sacred text added by the composer to his well-known Adagio for Strings;
Miserere mei, Deus by Allegri - written in the 17th century for exclusive use in the Sistene Chapel at the Vatican.
Tickets and information at our website: https://chronosvocalensemble.com/uplifted/