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Upcoming Events in Music
The Orlando Chorale The Chorale concludes its season with one of the greatest choral works of the last 100 years: Francis Poulenc's Gloria. TOC is joined by Washington, DC-based soprano Alexandra Phillips and the TOC Orchestra. The Orlando Chamber Singers will sing the world premier of Nathaniel Barnes' Requiem, an extraordinary new work made possible by the Emerging Composers Initiative ___________________________________________________________________ The Gulf Coast Chidren's Choir ________________________________________________________________ West Orange High School ___________________________________________________________________
The Chancel Choir with orchestra will present The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace on March 16, 2008, Palm Sunday evening, at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary. The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace will be a multi-media presentation that includes captivating footage of the preparation for war, the instruments of battle and the devastation of war to the established order of life. The concert is free to congregation and community. The Armed Man is a 15th century melody so popular in its day that it was used as the basis for numerous mass settings by many of the important composers of that age. The text of the first verse is: “The Armed Man must be feared; Everywhere it has been decreed That everyman should arm himself With an iron coat of mail.” At the turn of the 21st century London’s oldest military museum, the Royal Armouries, decided to commission a new work that would look back to the most war-torn century in history and forward to the hope of a more peaceful new millennium. The Armed Man seemed to be a perfect fit for the project. This is a profoundly moving work that melds the powerful music of Karl Jenkins with the all too real images taken from actual combat footage from the 20th century. Mr. Jenkins says of his work, “As I started composing “The Armed Man” the tragedy of Kosovo unfolded. I was reminded daily of the horror of such conflict and so I dedicate the work to the victims of Kosovo.” The first recording of the work ironically came out on September 10, 2001. As fellow English composer Benjamin Britten had done 40 years earlier in his War Requiem, Jenkins gathers texts from sacred and secular sources, including movements from the Mass, writers Mallory, Dryden, Swift, Tennyson, Kipling and the Hindu Mahabharata. ___________________________________________________________________ Emmy Nominated Choir Comes to First Church On Sunday evening, January 13, we will host the University Choir from Nebraska Wesleyan University in our sanctuary. The Emmy-nominated Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir is a select, 48-voice ensemble, more than one half of whom are music majors. The choir is recognized throughout this country and internationally for performing excellence, and regularly presents a varied repertoire rich in global diversity. Since 1977, the Wesleyan choir has undertaken seven foreign concert tours and two choral residencies in Hawaii, in addition to annual concert tours throughout the United States. Among these tours are some of unusual significance: the first American choir to perform in universities and conservatories in Romania, the first American choir invited to participate in the St. Petersburg, Russia International Choral Festival, and as the American choral representative to the 250th Anniversary of the United Methodist Enlightenment in London, England. In spring 2006 the choir returned to Germany and Austria and appeared for the first time in Hungary. Wesleyan Choir tours have taken the choir to England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Brazil, The choir has performed in the Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center, New York with the Westside Orchestra. __________________________________________________________________ Chancel Choir Christmas Concert with Orchestra Indeed, it is a time of wonder. Christmas is so many wonderful things to us: peace, joy, love, family, church, tradition and, of course, music. The Music Department presents for your Christmas celebration “Wonder Tidings,” the annual Christmas Concert with orchestra, on Monday evening, December 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary. Please join us for a delightful evening of glorious Christmas favorites and exciting and beautiful new music composed to celebrate the birth of God’s Son. Our Christmas Concerts always include a full list of traditional carols arranged by the greatest composers of our time. Accompanying the choir will be an orchestra of 42 members made up of several of our own instrumentalists and many of the most talented orchestral players in the Central Florida area. The concert is free to the congregation and community and is sponsored by the “Friends of Music.”
_________________________________________________________________ West Orange High School _________________________________________________________________ Lake Highland Preparatory School _______________________________________________________________ The Orlando Chorale ________________________________________________________________ UCF Choirs PeaceWorks Concert Join the University of Central Florida choirs and their special guests for a unique and important concert on Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 142 E. Jackson Street in downtown Orlando. Admission is free. PeaceWorks features a variety of classical, jazz, and world music from different cultures, contexts and traditions, honoring peace-making, loving-kindness and compassion. * Boulder musicians Cameron Powers and Kristina Sophia bring music from their travels in the Arabic speaking cultures * Well-known jazz vocalist Suzy Park and UCF’s new jazz piano faculty member Per Danielsson perform * UCF Theater professor Kate Ingram reads the words of Yitzhak Rabin, Wendell Berry, Maya Angelou and the Buddhist Sutta Nipata * and the University and Women’s Choruses sing under the direction of Al Holcomb and David Brunner. ________________________________________________________________ Florida Young Artists Orchestra
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May 2, 2008
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