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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.

Concerts
March 17 & 18
With Strings Attached
June 2 & 3
Night and Day

 

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With Strings AttachedWith 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

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 DayNight and Day

Saturday, June 2, 8:00pm
Sunday, June 3, 4:00pm

Transfiguration Episcopal Church
39th and Alameda
San Mateo - map

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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Masterworks Chorale, PO Box 5465, San Mateo, CA 94402-5465
Phone: 650.574.6210 | Email: chorale@masterworks.org

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