Veriditas: Songs of Spring & Summer
$25 ($15 concession; ages 12 & under free)
Joan Szymko — Arise, My Love
Hildegard von Bingen — O frondens virga (arr. Drew Collins)
Alice Parker — A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fairy Songs
Abbie Betinis — Cedit, Hyems! ("Begone, Winter!")
Hildegard von Bingen — O viriditas digiti Dei
Thomas Weelkes — Hark! All Ye Lovely Saints Abound!
Paul Brandvik — "Come Live with Me and Be My Love" from Three Songs of Love
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Folk Songs of the Four Seasons (excerpts)
Thomas Morley — Now is the Month of Maying
We continue celebrating Ancora's 20th Anniversary year with "Viriditas"! This in-person event will be held at Woodlawn Hall in the Green Lake area in Seattle, WA, USA. Our concert takes its title from the chant O nobilissima viriditas of Hildegard von Bingen and explores repertoire celebrating spring and summer as a time of renewal and refreshment from the time of Hildegard to the present day, illuminating the green thread that connects healing and life to nature.
The first half of the concert features groupings of music that include a chant, motet, or anthem on the same theme. The second half features spring and summer selections from Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, a work that captures the pastoral delight of the green meadows and the creatures that dwell there.