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.
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Concert Program
- Der 23. Psalm Franz Schubert
- The Captive's Hymn
Margaret Dryburgh
Sumatra, 1942
- Largo from the "New World" Symphony
Antonin Dvorak
Song of Survival, 1943 Sumatra, 1942
- Jabberwocky
Ron Jeffers
words by Lewis Carroll, commissioned by the PWC
- Come home little sister
Cecilia McDowall
commissioned by the PWC
- Vivos Voco Joan Szymko
- Mu süda ärka üles Cyrillus Kreek
- Peace upon you Jerusalem Arvo Pärt
- Lauliku lapsepõli Veljo Tormis
- displacement: I. From Psalm 137
Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
- displacement: II. Overheard in Silicon Valley
Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
- displacement: III. Wayfaring Stranger
Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
- displacement: IV. Frosty night
Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
- displacement: V. San Francisco
Eric Tuan
Commissioned by the PWC
- Harriet Tubman
Walter Robinson
Arr: Kathleen McGuire
commissioned by the PWC
- I'm going' up a yonder
Walter Hawkins
Arr: Martin Sirvatka
- Cape Breton Lullaby
Kenneth Leslie
Arr: Stuart Calvert