Recording of premiere performance October 2011 by Corpus ChriSTi CHORALE, conducted by Dr. Ross C. Bernhardt (composer and artiSTic director). The work sets a poem by Tom Barrett

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Phoenix CHORALE ChriSTopher Gabbitas, ArtiSTic Director Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Text: WH AuDEn (1907-1973) Performed at 'unCLOUDED day', a concert to celebrate the return of live choral music following the Covid-19 panDEmic. Solo...  STyle.display='';$(this).getParent().STyle.display='none';">moreSTyle="display:none;">Phoenix CHORALE ChriSTopher Gabbitas, ArtiSTic Director Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Text: WH AuDEn (1907-1973) Performed at 'unCLOUDED day', a concert to celebrate the return of live choral music following the Covid-19 panDEmic. SoloiSTs: Lies’l Hill, soprano Nina Garguilo, soprano Julia Powers, alto Thomas STrawser, tenor ChriSTopher Herrera, bass Learn more about Phoenix CHORALE at https://www.phoenixCHORALE.org If you like our music, please Subscribe! ViDEo Direction: Andrew STaples Sound Engineering: Sound Mirror I In a garDEn shady this holy lady With reverent caDEnce and subtle psalm, Like a black swan as DEath came on Poured forth her song in perfect calm: And by ocean's margin this innocent virgin ConSTructed an organ to enlarge her prayer, And notes tremendous from her great engine ThunDEred out on the Roman air. BlonDE Aphrodite rose up excited, Moved to DElight by the melody, White as an orchid she roDE quite naked In an oySTer shell on top of the ...    STyle.display='';$(this).getParent().STyle.display='none';">less

Swara Vocal Ensemble. Ivan Yohan, conductor From the concert "CeleSTial Spheres" 2021 RecorDEd at Église Notre Dame du Sacré-COEUR (Brussels) ©️2021 Ivan Yohan & Dan Mărăşescu Marion Bauwens, soprano Mirthe Dokter, soprano Lydia M. SToddart, sopran...  STyle.display='';$(this).getParent().STyle.display='none';">moreSTyle="display:none;">Swara Vocal Ensemble. Ivan Yohan, conductor From the concert "CeleSTial Spheres" 2021 RecorDEd at Église Notre Dame du Sacré-COEUR (Brussels) ©️2021 Ivan Yohan & Dan Mărăşescu Marion Bauwens, soprano Mirthe Dokter, soprano Lydia M. SToddart, soprano Liza DEdapper, soprano Zayra Vélazquez, soprano Anna Nuytten, mezzo/alto Boris Kondov, countertenor Imogen STreul, mezzo/alto María Gil Muñoz, mezzo/alto Hendrik Mispelon, tenor José Pizarro, tenor LeanDEr Van Gijsegem, tenor Paul Gosme, tenor Timo Tembuyser, tenor Andrés Soler CaSTaño, bass Jan Moeyaert, bass Laurent Fobelets, bass Mbolanirina Rabetsimatahodriaka, bass Hsieh Yu Hsiang, bass  STyle.display='';$(this).getParent().STyle.display='none';">less

Gloria DEi CHORALE, Mobile, AL Louis F. Daniel, Director "O Great MySTery" by Louis F. Daniel, All Rights Reserved

This original composition being premiered this afternoon was commissioned by Rainier CHORALE “in honor of Ron Bayer, ArtiSTic Director, for his 20 years of DEdicated service and leaDErship.” Written by well-known and respected contemporary composer David ...  STyle.display='';$(this).getParent().STyle.display='none';">moreSTyle="display:none;">This original composition being premiered this afternoon was commissioned by Rainier CHORALE “in honor of Ron Bayer, ArtiSTic Director, for his 20 years of DEdicated service and leaDErship.” Written by well-known and respected contemporary composer David Dickau, it hauntingly sets a very thoughtful text by Will Dromgoole. In it, Dromgoole tells the STory of an old man who approaches a DEep and wiDE water-filled chasm. He crosses in the evening as he is unafraid, then builds a bridge to span the tiDE. A fellow pilgrim queSTions why an old man would build the bridge, as he would surely never pass this way again in his lifetime. The old man lifts his grey head and responds to the queSTioning traveler that a youth is to follow after him. He too, would need to cross in the twilight dim. The old man answers, “I am building this bridge for him.” The commission process was an intereSTing and fascinating one in which to be involved. Dr. Dickau was originally approached a year or so ago by the CHORALE, and was inter...    STyle.display='';$(this).getParent().STyle.display='none';">less

Hymn

This is actually our 3rd day of practice...sadly, it's also the performance day

Jory Vinikour, fortepiano Jolle Greenleaf, soprano Robert Mealy, violin The moST important woman artiST of her time, eighteenth-century French painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a favorite of MARIE Antoinette and...

Some reactions to our April 2nd and 3rd concerts with Slavyanka choir. (April 2 and 3, 2011) www.slavicCHORALE.org