A Year of American Song
A Year of American Song
Individual tickets for each concert are $24 for adults and $20 for students and seniors. You may order tickets directly from our web site, or by calling the Schola office at (650) 254–1700.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008, 8:00 pm |
Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4:00 pm |
Schola Cantorum’s second snapshot of American choral composers wraps the classic Christmas experience in fresh trimmings. Endearing favorites, like the ever-popular Alfred Burt Carols, rub elbows with recently-minted works by Schola Cantorum member Lauren Bird-Wiser (Three December Songs) and alum Hugh McDevitt (A December Night), and other newer works, including Carl Chevallard’s Christmas at Home, Gregory Wait’s arrangement of Charles Ives’s A Christmas Carol, the stirring O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen and a rollicking romp through Craig Courtney’s Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas. The Oxford Street Brass joins the choir to add a sparkling finishing touch to this picture-perfect Christmas.
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Saturday, December 13, 2008, 8:00 pm Grace Lutheran Church, Palo Alto Preludes pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 pm |
Sunday, December 14, 2008, 4:00 pm St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga |
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Monday, December 15, 2008, 7:30 pm Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Click here for more information |
Mid-west composer Libby Larsen weaves the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Wendell Berry, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Joy Harjo into her Missa Gaia (Mass for the Earth)—a tender celebration of the earth and a bracing reminder of its fragility. Commissioned and performed by Schola Cantorum in 1992, the Missa Gaia, paired with Bay-area composer Kirke Mechem’s Earth My Song, is timeless in its message and a fitting prelude to April’s Earth Day celebrations.
| One concert only: the culmination of Schola Cantorum’s two-day choral festival |
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 4:00 pm First Congregational Church, Palo Alto |
When premiered by Schola Cantorum in 2004, Alva Henderson’s Winter Requiem resonated deeply with audience members and singers alike. This masterful work receives an encore performance, suitably matched with Henderson’s newest composition, From Greater Light, commissioned by Howard and Roberta Ahmanson in celebration of the opening of The Village of Hope in Southern California. The Peninsula-based composer’s requiem sets poet Dana Gioia’s journey through the unthinkable loss of a child, moving honestly through raw emotions, and resolving in the promise of hope and redemption. From Greater Light is cradled with similar expressive care in the composer’s treatment of Old-Testament texts, climaxing in a universal message of love and peace.
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Saturday, May 16, 2009, 8:00 pm First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto Preludes pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 pm |