Sunday, April 30, 2017 @ 2:00pm
Mission Santa Clara, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA

In the parlance of explorers, True North refers to the absolute point where longitude lines converge in the North, marked by the North Star. Over the centuries, it has been a guide for displaced travelers driven by the human desire to find home. With the closing performance of this very special season, we invite you, our singers, alumnae, and audience home to the PWC — to our True North.

Favorites such as the lyrical Schubert’s Psalm 23, the courageous Song of Survival repertoire, and Ron Jeffers’ jazzy and whimsical Jabberwocky (commissioned by the family of PWC “founding member” Anne Anderson) will join several new PWC commissions in this anniversary spring concert. The SSAA arrangement of Harriet Tubman by Kathleen McGuire calls us to action. We welcome back British composer Cecilia McDowall with another PWC commission. And a special world premiere by Eric Tuan interweaves themes of displacement, exile, and homecoming in centuries past as well as in our modern-day Silicon Valley. The sweetly nostalgic Cape Breton Lullaby will complete the cycle as the PWC opens the gates to the next fifty years.

Concert Teaser:

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Concert Program

    CompositionComposer / ArrangerNotes

  1. Der 23. Psalm Franz Schubert
  2. The Captive's Hymn Margaret Dryburgh

    Sumatra, 1942
  3. Largo from the "New World" Symphony Antonin Dvorak
    Arr: Margaret Dryburgh Norah Chambers

    Song of Survival, 1943 Sumatra, 1942
  4. Jabberwocky Ron Jeffers

    words by Lewis Carroll, commissioned by the PWC
  5. Come home little sister Cecilia McDowall

    commissioned by the PWC
  6. Vivos Voco Joan Szymko
  7. Mu süda ärka üles Cyrillus Kreek
  8. Peace upon you Jerusalem Arvo Pärt
  9. Lauliku lapsepõli Veljo Tormis
  10. displacement: I. From Psalm 137 Eric Tuan

    commissioned by the PWC
  11. displacement: II. Overheard in Silicon Valley Eric Tuan

    commissioned by the PWC
  12. displacement: III. Wayfaring Stranger Eric Tuan

    commissioned by the PWC
  13. displacement: IV. Frosty night Eric Tuan

    commissioned by the PWC
  14. displacement: V. San Francisco Eric Tuan

    Commissioned by the PWC
  15. Harriet Tubman Walter Robinson
    Arr: Kathleen McGuire

    commissioned by the PWC
  16. I'm going' up a yonder Walter Hawkins
    Arr: Martin Sirvatka
  17. Cape Breton Lullaby Kenneth Leslie
    Arr: Stuart Calvert

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