The 5 Elements: A Culinary + Candlelight Concert Experience

Philip Glass — Selected works
Meredith Monk — Selected works
Robert Dennis — Selected works
John Cage — Selected works
Charlie Morrow — Selected works
Thomas Tallis — Selected works
Thomas Morley — Selected works
Claudio Monteverdi — Selected works
William Billings — Selected works
Edward Elgar — Selected works
Various — Selected works (musical theater/film arrangements TBA)

Our evening begins in a beautiful garden at sunset, where a private chef will prepare a delectable meal with wine for us. After dining and mingling with others, we’ll head into a space filled with hundreds of flickering candle lights to experience a kaleidoscopic tapestry of a cappella sensations by the Western Wind.

6pm: Pre-concert dinner, wine, mingling (and a special talk before dessert)
7:30pm: Candlelight Concert

The Western Wind completes it 2022-2023 concert series with a unique program, "The 5 Elements – Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Nothingness." The elements will be represented in music by some of America's best known composers including Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Robert Dennis, John Cage, and Charlie Morrow, as well as music from the Renaissance by Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, and Claudio Monteverdi; also early American music by William Billings, English song by Edward Elgar, and arrangements of songs from musical theater and film

About The Western Wind

Since 1969, the internationally acclaimed vocal sextet The Western Wind has devoted itself to the special beauty and variety of a cappella music. The Ensemble's repertoire reveals its diverse background – from Renaissance motets to Fifties rock 'n' roll, from medieval carols to Duke Ellington, from complex works by avant-garde composers to the simplest folk melodies.

In the United States, Western Wind has appeared in many distinguished venues, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, ArtPark, Ordway Theater, the Metropolitan Museum, the Frick Museum, the Jewish Museum, Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, and Cleveland Museum of Art.

In Europe, the sextet appeared at the Geneva Opera, performing works it commissioned: Batéy by Tania León and Michel Camilo, and De Orishas by Tania León. The Western Wind also recorded early and contemporary American vocal music for the German National Radio at Cologne, and made several triumphant tours of northern Italy, performing Italian Renaissance as well as American music. The group has appeared with the RAI Orchestra and Chorus of Rome at the Rome Opera and at Venice's legendary opera house, Teatro La Fenice.

http://www.westernwind.org/