Volti, Robert Geary, conductor. 5/6/12 performance VOLTI: SOPRANO Yuhi Aizawa Combatti Lindsey McLennan Diana Pray TJ Togasaki Christa Tumlinson ALTO Marjorie Gömez Verah Graham Emily Ryan Celeste Winant Jessica Winn TENOR Artyom Chelba...  moreVolti, Robert Geary, conductor. 5/6/12 performance VOLTI: SOPRANO Yuhi Aizawa Combatti Lindsey McLennan Diana Pray TJ Togasaki Christa Tumlinson ALTO Marjorie Gömez Verah Graham Emily Ryan Celeste Winant Jessica Winn TENOR Artyom Chelbayev Michael Eisenberg Paul Ingraham Roderick Lowe Eric Tuan BASS Jeff Bennett Sidney Chen E.E. "Chip Grant IV Philip Saunders Cole Thomason-Redus Artistic Director: Robert Geeary Executive Director: Barbara Heroux Composer in Residence: Mark Winges Artistic Advisor: Sidney Chen Delusional Paths is a setting of five Stephen Crane poems concerned with Paths and destinations. Here Paths taken lead to unexpected places. Carefully considered goals prove to be illusive, unattainable, or not what they seemed. Expectations of preconceived outcomes prove futile ("I saw a man"), naively optimistic ("A learned man"), foolhardy ("There was set before me a mighty hill"), or at best unrealistic ("The wayfarer"). In "Once, I knew a fine song" the path is...    less

Anthem by Charles Villiers Stanford The Lord is my shepherd : therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture : and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. He shall convert my soul : and shall bring me forth in the Paths of righte...  moreAnthem by Charles Villiers Stanford The Lord is my shepherd : therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture : and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. He shall convert my soul : and shall bring me forth in the Paths of righteousness, for his Name's sake. Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil : for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me. Thou shalt prepare a table before me 'gainst them that trouble me : thou anointedst my head with oil, and my cup shall be full. But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life : and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. For Thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me. (Psalm 23) Sung at Canterbury Cathedral during our Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in 1986, under Martin How. I (David W Solomons) was one of the altos. John Huntley - a fellow alto - recorded this performance.  less

Dorian mode setting of Psalm 23 by David W Solomons The Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He makes me lie down in green pastures He leads me along the still waters. He restores my soul and makes me walk within the Paths of righteousness ...  moreDorian mode setting of Psalm 23 by David W Solomons The Lord is my shepherd I shall lack nothing He makes me lie down in green pastures He leads me along the still waters. He restores my soul and makes me walk within the Paths of righteousness for His name's sake Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale yet I will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff comfort me still you have furnished my table in the presence of my foes my head you anoint with oil and my cup overflows Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me and my dwelling place shall be in God's house evermore.  less