Far From Sight, Near At Heart: A Mosaic of What We Hold Dear, through Filipino, Austronesian, & European Music
Advance: $35-$60 ($15 student) | At the door: $45-$60 ($25 student)
- Serena Chin, piano
Ily Matthew Maniano — Amihan
Traditional / Tsai Yu-Shan — Three Taiwanese Indigenous Songs
Johannes Brahms — Selected works
Carol Barnett — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
Claudio Monteverdi — Ecco mormorar l'onde, SV 51
Nilo Alcala — I am here with you always
Choral music from Southeast Asia, Europe, and the U.S. converge to celebrate who and what we cherish in life, from childhood play to lifelong love. This musical journey spans from the Italian Renaissance, through the Baroque and Romantic eras, to acclaimed composers living in the Philippines, U.S., and Taiwan. Music for double chorus by J.S. Bach (Singet dem Herrn) and Saunder Choi (Can you hear me?) invokes a joyful spirit of listening and dialogue. We find delight and comfort in nature's winds, rustling in Claudio Monteverdi's Ecco mormorar l'onde and Ily Matthew Maniano's Amihan, a season of the refreshing trade winds. We relish in harvest and home in Taiwanese Indigenous folksongs arranged by Tsai Yu-Shan and music of safe dwelling by Johannes Brahms. Children's games tease us and young love sparkles in settings by Maniano, Choi and Carol Barnett. And sublime choral beauty suspends us, as we hold our loved ones near at heart, with Nilo Alcala's setting of his mother's poetry, I am here with you always.
2 performances:
- Saturday, May 17, 7:30pm at First Congregational Church of Bellevue
- Sunday, May 18, 3pm at Saint Mark's Cathedral in Seattle (with Northwest Boychoir)