Saturday, May 14, 2016 @ 4:00pm
All Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA
Saturday, May 21, 2016 @ 4:00pm
All Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA

Program Highlights: Betinis’ A Blessing of Cranes, musical settings of excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Libby Larsen’s The Witches’ Trio, and One With the Wind by David O.

Act I brings that of which we dare not speak—reveries, spells, the eternal and its power of healing. Highlighted is the transformative story of resilience told in Abbie Betinis’ A Blessing of Cranes, co-commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus.

Act II celebrates the words of William Shakespeare with musical settings of excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the swirling, mysterious spells of Macbeth, in Libby Larsen’s The Witches’ Trio. The concert concludes with the all-encompassing One With the Wind by David O, featured as the keystone piece at The New Music for Treble Voices Festival in March 2015.

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Concert Program

    CompositionComposer / ArrangerNotes

  1. Mass No. 6 - 1. Kyrie György Orbán

    composed in 2000
  2. Mass No. 6 - 2. Gloria György Orbán

    composed in 2000
  3. Mass No. 6 - 3. Sanctus/Benedictus György Orbán

    composed in 2000
  4. Mass No. 6 - 4. Agnus Dei György Orbán

    composed in 2000
  5. A Blessing of Cranes Abbie Betinis

    Commissioned by the 2014 Women’s Choir Commission Consortium of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
  6. Song of Perfect Propriety Carol Barnett

    composed in 2006
  7. 3 Songs from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 1. I do wander everywhere Cary Ratcliff
  8. 3 Songs from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 2. Philomel with melody Cary Ratcliff
  9. 3 Songs from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 3. I will wind thee in my arms Cary Ratcliff
  10. The Witches’ Trio Libby Larsen

    composed in 2000
  11. Dulce est (from Adagia) Pekka Kostiainen

    composed in 2004
  12. Ut ameris (from Adagia) Pekka Kostiainen

    composed in 2004
  13. Acta est fabula (from Adagia) Pekka Kostiainen

    composed in 2004
  14. Jack's Valentine Libby Larsen

    composed in 2002
  15. Veni, amica mea Pekka Kostiainen
  16. One with the wind David O.

    composed in 2014
  17. Ain'-a That Good News
    Arr: William L. Dawson

    arranged in 1974