Sunday, May 5, 2013 @ 2:00pm
Mission Santa Clara, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
Sunday, May 12, 2013 @ 2:00pm
Mission Santa Clara, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
Saturday, May 11, 2013 @ 8:00pm
San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
3321 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 @ 8:00pm
San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
3321 16th Street, San Francisco, CA

Program Highlights: “I Just Lightning” by Libby Larsen, “Trepute Martela” by Vaclovas Augustinas, “The Stove” by Zae Munn

We celebrate our third collaboration with San Francisco’s Golden Gate Men’s Chorus! In this choral event we present excerpts from the title piece, The Son of Man by Syrian -American composer Kareem Roustom. This Middle-Eastern-infused modern-day oratorio is set to the poetry of Kahlil Gibran. Rounding out the program are reflections on the power of women with Libby Larsen’s I Just Lightning, The Stove by Zae Munn, and a new work, Alma Submerged, by Frank Ferko. An exciting program with something for everyone!

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Concert Program

    CompositionComposer / ArrangerNotes

  1. The Son of Man II. Benjamin the Scribe: Let The Dead Bury Their Dead Kareem Roustom

    West Coast premiere, co-premiered with Golden Gate Men’s Chorus

  2. The Son of Man VI. A Man from Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward Kareem Roustom

    West Coast premiere, co-premiered with Golden Gate Men’s Chorus

  3. Soneto de la Noche Morten Lauridsen
  4. Plenty Good Room Kirby Shaw
  5. Treputė Martela Vaclovas Augustinas
  6. How Many Times Had We Found Ourselves Mouthing Received Opinions, Using the Language of Oppression, Before We No Longer Had Any Claim to Be Oblivious to Our Having Become Both Victim and Perpetrator of Injustice? William DeFotis
  7. Alma Submerged Frank Ferko

    Premiered at Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, October 2012

  8. I Just Lightning Libby Larsen

    Athapascan-Navajo text, English version by Henry Munn

  9. The Stove Zae Munn

    text by Ann Kilkelly

  10. I Thank You God Gwyneth Walker

    text by e.e. cummings, written 1998