Vienna Choral Society’s Requiem – A Sneak Peek

May 19, 2011 by

Wondering what we’re going to sing this weekend? Here’s a sneak peek!

Alle Psalite Cum Luya

Now I Walk In Beauty (hummed)

The Awakening (UUCR)

Now I Walk In Beauty (sung in unison)

The Heart is The Compass (UUCF)

Now I Walk In Beauty (full piece, in unison)

Make Our Garden Grow (VCS)

Lux Aurumque (Mark conducts, Amelia Gil-Figueroa, Anne Pohnert, and Lydia Lewis, soloists)

Healing Waters

You Are the New Day

Ubi Caritas (begun with solo, followed in stages by the rest of the choir)

~INTERMISSION~

Requiem

  1. Timor Mortis Conturbat Me
  2. Telos (Jim Whitcomb, solo)
  3. Dirge Without Music/When I Am Dead, My Dearest (Jen Rubio and Furman Riley, soloists)
  4. Holy  Light (SSAA)
  5. Dirge Without Music (Sarah Davies, reader)
  6. Never More
  7. The First Day’s Night (Sarah Davies, reader)
  8. To Everything There is a Season (Anne Pohnert and Melinda Bauers, soloists)
  9. Time & We Bereaved (Sarah Davies, reader)
  10. Threnody & Limitless (Kristy King, soloist)
  11. Wherever You  Go Now

A full choir, an orchestra, a lovely space. Help us complete the picture with a full house! There are still tickets available online.

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Ubi Caritas: From Westminster Abbey to Vienna Choral Society

April 29, 2011 by

 

Choir at Westminster Abbey

The choir, fully kitted out for the royal wedding at Westminster Abbey

Hey guess what, the choir at Westminster Abbey performed Ubi Caritas at the royal wedding earlier today! Why the thrillment? Because VCS will sing it too, in our upcoming concert, “A Celebration Of The Life.”

However, ahem, I’m guessing that what the royal choir had in ruffles and livery, we’ll make up for in way cool mash-up-ness. Because our Ubi Caritas is going to have Yoruba and Kemitic chanting interspersed. Having rehearsed it several times, I can tell you that it will be an ethereal and uplifting experience, and I am looking forward to singing it.

(Yes, the royal choir may well have sung a mash-up too. But I have no idea since I didn’t wake up at 0:darkthirty to watch the proceedings. No, that’s what the Internet is for. And thank goodness. Now I know all about the hats.)

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie's hats at the royal wedding

(_________________) Courtesy of People Magazine.

No, that isn’t a typo in the caption. I’m really speechless. How would you caption that picture? Tell us, in the comments section!

 

 

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