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Wednesday, February 28, 20078:00 pm
Works by Billings, Cage, Harman, Le Jeune, Ligeti, Messiaen, Panneton and Wild.
The music of yesterday and today come together in a concert featuring Peter Schubert conducting both Cappella McGill and The Orpheus Singers — groups that have been bringing unusual works to life for over 25 years.
Eighteen-century composer William Billings meets John Cage while the sixteenth-century Claude Le Jeune shares the stage with Olivier Messiaen and early and late Ligeti: all the ingredients for a fascinating encounter that reaches beyond geographical boundaries and centuries! Cage was inspired by Billings’s New England Psalm Singer (1770)! Messiaen composed his Rechants as a tribute to Claude Le Jeune. Isabelle Panneton drew inspiration from Machiavelli’s Prince. Jon Wild set anonymous, thirteenth-century texts. Chris Paul Harman refers to the celebrated Es ist Genug by Bach. Finally, Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna can be viewed as a creative revival of Renaissance compositional techniques.
The human voice has truly stood the test of time.
Participants
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Peter Schubert, conductor
Program
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Old North et Heath, 6:00
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Revecy venire du printemps, 13:00
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Cinq Rechants (1949)12 mixed voicesExcerptRechant 1, 4
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Es Ist Genug (2007), 3:00Premiere
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Ic mun wax wode (2006), 7:00
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Le Prince (2004), 7:00
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Éjszaka és Reggel (1955)
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Lux æterna (1966)a capella chorus
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Inaktelki nóták (1953)
Coproduction MNM / Cappella McGill / Orpheus Singers