Ancora Women's Choir: Transient Glory
$25 ($15 student/seniors; ages 11 & under free; "pay as you will" tickets available from $1)
Stephen Smith — Selected works
Frank Ticheli — Selected works
Christine Donkin — Selected works
Tomás Luis de Victoria — "O vos omnes" (voci pari) from Tenebrae Responsories
Donald Skirvin — All my Songs for You (world premeire)
NOTE: This performance has been rescheduled from January 28 to February 18. Tickets already purchased will be honored on the new date.
Drawing from the phrase "sic transit gloria mundi" ("thus passes the glory of the world"), 'Transient Glory' explores some of the ways we encounter, experience, and call on beauty and magnificence. In a concert that embraces almost entirely living composers, Ancora sings texts from Gerard Manley Hopkins, Garcia Lorca, and Wendell Berry, as well as works from Sheila Bristow, Stephen Smith, Frank Ticheli, and Christine Donkin. Interleaved into this "new" music is the startling text from the Tenebrae Responsories of Thomás Luis de Victoria, "O vos omnes" ("O ye people"), taken from the first chapter of Jeremiah. We are proud to also offer a world premiere of All my Songs for You, on a text by Sarah Teasdale, written for Ancora and Artistic Director J. Scott Kovacs by celebrated Seattle composer Donald M. Skirvin.