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Masterworks Chorale presents
our 48th Season
Masterworks Chorale exists to inspire our community. We
dedicate our professional performance of superior choral music to the
enrichment, nourishment, education and entertainment of our audience,
striving to create a meaningful personal experience for patron and performer.
 With
Strings Attached
Saturday, March 17, 8:00pm
Sunday, March 18, 4:00pm
Marcelle Dronkers, soprano & Norman DeVol, tenor
Transfiguration Episcopal Church
39th and Alameda
San Mateo - map
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The combination of strings and voices
has long been an ideal match. Singers are often encouraged
to sing with a violin's focus, or a cello's resonance,
while string players seek to sound vocal in thier
playing.
Mozart's "Dixit and Magnificat" is
an early piece full of vitality and inventivness, as well as rhythmic and melodic
enthusiasm. It's a 'wow' piece full of fun and surprises, daring melodic leaps,
cheery counterpoint, sudden shifts of texture and tempo changes
A
couple of less-well-known offerings on this program
include:
Imant Raminsh — In the Night We Shall
Go — The unique musical language of this
Latvian-Canadian composer and the sensual poetry
by Chilean Pablo Neruda combine in a gorgeous setting
with intoxicating cello solo lines.
Richard Bjella has arranged Idumea, a haunting
tune from Appalachia for two violins and chorus;
the melody was prominent in the opening of the movie Cold
Mountain.
Nick Carlozzi is a composer and a member of Masterworks
Chorale. His work, Hymn to the Future is a setting
of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Here's what Nick says
about his piece:
"'Hymn for the Future' sets to music a complex layering of joyful, optimistic, mysterious, dark, and religious themes found in Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hymn' of 1835. The composer's use of mixed and asymmetric meter combined with a fairly quick tempo produces an energized, flowing, yet anxious or unsettling undercurrent for the singers to float above. Mostly-tonal melodies and dance-like rhythms bring forth the joy and optimism in the text. However, an eerie layer of dissonance reminds the listener that while there is great joy and hope for the future, the current state of the speaker is that of internal conflict. "
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 Night
and Day
Saturday, June 2, 8:00pm
Sunday, June 3, 4:00pm
Transfiguration Episcopal Church
39th and Alameda
San Mateo - map
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Selections from classical to pop about
night, about day, ranging from Cole Porter to Brahms,
and from Broadway to Vienna. Some titles include “Night
and Day”, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, “O
What a Beautiful Mornin” and “Some Enchanted
Evening. Classical selections include Brahms “Nächtens”, “Choose
Something like a Star” by Randall Thompson and
something by the ever-popular Eric Whitacre. |
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Low
Concert Ticket Prices!
Masterworks Chorale’s 48th concert season
can be enjoyed at our current low ticket prices.
- $20 advance purchase
- $25 at the door
- $10 with valid student ID
Buy tickets now!
Thank you for supporting Masterworks Chorale.
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