Northwest Chamber Chorus: The Peace of Wild Things
Pay-what-you-can (suggested price: $27, ages 6-18 free)
- Brent Woo, piano
- Jeremy Edelstein, conductor
Felix Mendelssohn — Die Nachtigall
Orlando Gibbons — The Silver Swan
Adolphus Hailstork — The Silver Swan
Eric Whitacre — Little Birds
Joan Szymko — The Peace of Wild Things
Carlos Guastavino — Se Equivocó la Paloma
Charles Villiers Stanford — The Blue Bird, Op. 119, No. 3
Leoš Janáček — Kačena divoká
Caroline Shaw — and the swallow
Samuel Carl Adams — By The Lone Seashore
Pēteris Vasks — Plainscapes
When Wendell Berry seeks a balm for despair in the titular poem of our concert, he follows the wood drake and the great heron. So, too, do we attend to the birds in our second concert, searching for consolation. Our program discovers Carlos Guastavino's confused dove in "Se equivoco la paloma," Charles Villiers Stanford’s elusive muse in “The Blue Bird,” and Caroline Shaw's home-seeking birds in "and the swallow." The program will also include Peteris Vasks' ethereal "Plainscapes," and works by Eric Whitacre, Abbie Betinis, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and the eponymous “The Peace of Wild Things,” by Joan Szymko.
This program will receive 2 performances:
- Sunday, March 17 at 3pm
- Saturday, March 23 at 7:30pm
Both will take place at Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church and be streamed online.