Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:00 pm
DANCE ON! Music for Choir, Pianos & Percussion
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Christopher Shepard, conductor
Steven Ryan & Dmitri Korneev, piano
The Dessoff Choirs
BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms
GÓRECKI Totus Tuus
CONTE Invocation and Dance
IVES Circus Band (arr. Dashnaw)
BARBER Sure on this Shining Night, Under the Willow Tree
WALKER White Horses, My Love Walks in Velvet
JAMESON Night Journey
DOVE The Passing of the Year
BRAHMS Liebeslieder Walzes (selections)
Although the piano is sometimes seen as an adjunct to the choral rehearsal—the instrument that stands in for the symphony orchestra—much wonderful music has been composed especially for piano and choir. This concert features 20th-century pieces written for one or two pianists, percussion, and choir, including Bernstein’s high-voltage Chichester Psalms, David Conte’s lyric Invocation and Dance, a set of quintessential American works by Charles Ives, Samuel Barber and Gwyneth Walker, plus a selection of Brahms’s most beloved Liebeslieder waltzes. From England comes Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year, commissioned in 2000 by the London Symphony Chorus. The combination of lyrical voices, virtuoso pianists, and brilliant percussion is irresistible.
St. George’s Church
209 East 16th Street at Rutherford Place, east of Third Avenue
Manhattan
Tickets: $35 Preferred Seating, $20 Advance General Admission
$15 Senior/Student, 12 & Under (Free)