November 15, 2007
School of Music to raise voices in song Nov. 27, 28
Voices will be raised in song at the School of Music in the week following Thanksgiving — in art songs, arias and songs of celebration in keeping with the coming season.
Voice students will perform art songs and arias by German composers, emphazing those from the 19th century, in a performance at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27, in Brechemin Auditorium. Composers whose work will be sung include Beethoven, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Strauss.
Tickets are $5, cash or check at the door. 206-685-8384, www.music.washington.edu.
At 7:30 p.m. the next day, Wednesday, Nov. 28, the University Chorale and Chamber Singers will combine for Lauda!, an evening of songs of celebration and praise.
The Chamber Singers, conducted by Geoffrey Boers, will perform a set of songs honoring the Virgin Mary as well as a scene from Dominick Argento’s opera, The Masque of Angels. Boers described the piece as “a quasi-dramatic work about a group of angels who come back from an earthly mission and report on what they have seen, singing praise to the dolphin, the pelican, the ocean, and so on.”
Among the works to be performed by the The University Chorale, conducted by Giselle Wyers, will be songs by Aaron Copeland and an award-winning choral setting of Robert Frost’s poem “Now Close All the Windows.”
Tickets are $10, at the door or through the UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880. www.meany.org.
