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2007 - 2008 Concert Season |
Living and Breathing Music
Be delighted and refreshed by the music of some of the world's finest living, breathing composers. This music is both widely appealing and very interesting. Beautiful harmonies, shapely melodies, infectious rhythms, and deeply meaningful texts will lift your spirit, satisfy your senses, and excite your mind. Come and share the energy of live music-making!
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Notes on Composers:
Libby Larsen
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
7:30 PM at the
Cathedral of St. Andrew
267 Sheldon Blvd SE
Grand Rapids, MI
"Missa Gaia: Mass for theEarth"
by Libby Larsen, American composer;
texts from: the Bible, the Chinook Psalter, and poets Wendell Berry, Gerard Manley Hopkins, M.K. Dean, Maurice Kenny, Meister Eckhart, and Joy Harjo
in collaboration with Catholic Central High School Chorale, Director Dennis Rybicki
with professional chamber ensemble
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Notes on Composers:
Gwyneth Walker
Pekka Kostianen
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Spring 2008 Concert
Sunday April 13, 2008
7:30 PM at Calvin Christian Reformed Church
Franklin St. at Ethel Ave., Grand Rapids
"The Golden Harp"
by Gwyneth Walker, American composer, text by Indian poet
Missa "In Deo salutare meum"
by Pekka Kostiainen, premier Finnish composer |
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Note: the music for this year's concerts was chosen because of it's beauty and quality, not because it happens to be composed by women!
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Concerts are 75 minutes in length, with no intermission.
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