Our 40th Anniversary Season continues!
“In the Garden of the Imagination”

Saturday, May 19, 2012 :: 7:00 pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South

Be sure to mark your calendar for the second half of our 40th Anniversary season, as the Chorale explores what happens when fertile musical imaginations till the literary soil of some of our greatest and most creative writers. The results will be strange and wondrous fruits that will delight both the ear and the mind: an evocative, emotional, and thrilling close to this year of celebration.

Irving Fine, Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Three choral settings for chorus and piano
Some of the most charming choral music written in the 20th century

Michael Conley, This Bequest of Wings (Emily Dickinson)
Eight settings of Dickinson's poetry for soprano, chorus, string quartet, and piano
The world premiere of the complete cycle

Eric Whitacre, The City and the Sea (e. e. cummings)
Five choruses set to the words of e. e. cummings, for chorus and piano
The newest work from the internationally celebrated wunderkind of contemporary choral music

Tarik O'Regan, The Ecstasies Above (Edgar Allan Poe)
A setting of Poe's magnificent “Israfel,” for solo octet, chorus, and string quartet
Through his creative description of the angel, Israfel, and the heavens, Poe creates a virtuous image of the supernatural. Poe compares this heavenly vision to the harsh reality of human existence. Whilst the beauty of Israfel's voice and lyre can silence even the moon and the stars in the heavens, Poe suggests that if Israfel were placed in an earthly environment, he would not sing with such zest. From the Koranic source of the name for the protagonist, the story is refashioned by Poe into an homage of ecumenicity to an all-encompassing angel of music.

SPECIAL NOTE: This concert begins at 7:00 PM!

Tickets: $25 (general), $20 (seniors), $10 (students)
available at the door, from a Chorale member, or by clicking the link on the right!

The 2012 Summer Sings schedule is now online!

Click here to find out dates and times for this summer's open audience sings!