Crowning Glories

May 31, 8:00pm
Carrington Hall
1201 Brewster Avenue
Redwood City   >>map

June 1, 4:00pm
Carrington Hall
1201 Brewster Avenue
Redwood City   >>map

Royal events inspire composers to glorious heights. In Mozart’s Coronation Mass that means high-energy choruses, gorgeous melodies, and resounding brass fanfares that invite nobility in each of us. The chorus will also sing Taverner’s “Song for Athene,” made famous in another kind of royal event, Princess Diana’s funeral.

Glories abound as our marvelous soloists sing crowning moments of opera. Rossini's brilliant aria "Non piu mesta" celebrates the joyful ending of his version of the Cinderella story (La Cenerentola) sung as the heroine marries the prince. Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs — settings of poems by George Herbert — combine chorus, orchestra, and soloists in rich harmonies and arching melodies.

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An American Century

Beautiful American choral music
and Broadway Sing-along

July 26, 6:30pm
Little Theatre
1700 Hillsdale
San Mateo, CA   >>map

Randall Thompson - Choose something like a star
Samuel Barber - Sure on this Shining Night
Leonard Bernstein - Take care of this house
Eric Whitacre - Animal Crackers
Irving Berlin, arranged by MacHuff - A Century of Song

A moving setting by Randall Thompson of poetry by Robert Frost; Leonard Berstein's heart-warming "Take care of this house;" Eric Whitacre's clever musical rendering of Ogden Nash's amusing poetry about animals "Animal Crackers;" James Agee's mystical peom "Sure on this Shinning night" in Barber's luminous harmonies. Irving Berlin's great All-American tunes like "Anything you can do," "Blue Skies," Alexander´s Ragtime Band," "Steppin' out with my baby," and "No business like Show business," in MacHuff's rousing arrangement.

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Introducing the Four-for-Three Ticket Offer

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