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Estonian composer Arvo Part featured as the James River Singers celebrate music From the Baltic Sea
From the Baltic Sea - works by Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Jaako Mäntyjärvi, plus the premiere of "I Am in Need of Music" by William Roberts, a work recently commissioned by the James River Singers in honor of long-time singer and Board member Sharon Peebles Manson.
The countries clustered around the Baltic Sea are as different from one another as the various lands and histories that stretch away behind them in numerous directions. One striking similarity among them, however, is their amazingly rich choral traditions, with which those of us in the West have only become acquainted since the dissolution of the Soviet Empire. The James River Singers will bring to you the sounds, colors and flavors of the Baltic region through choral works by a few of its most significant composers.
The program will feature Canticum Calamitatis Maritime by Finnish composer Jaakko Mantyjarvi (dedicated to the memory of the 1994 tragedy of the ferry Estonia), sung in Latin; Estonian composer Arvo Part's Berliner Messe (Berlin Mass), sung in Latin; Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki's Totus Tuus, sung in Latin; movements 1, 2, and 3 of Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, sung in Russian; and Veniki (Brooms), a Russian folk song, sung in Russian. Also premiering is I Am in Need of Music, by American composer William Bradley Roberts, based on text of poet Elizabeth Bishop. The James River Singers commissioned this piece in memory of their past president Sharon P. Manson who passed away this year after a courageous battle with cancer.
Additional information, including past programs and audio files of performances, can be found at www.jamesriversingers.org.
Saturday, November 17th, 7:00 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 4602 Cary Street Road, Richmond, VA
Sunday, November 18th, 5:00 p.m., St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 520 N. Boulevard, Richmond, VA
