Announcing our
2008-2009 Season
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Rossini’s
Petite Messe Solennelle
October 12, 2008
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center
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Handel’s
Messiah Sing-along
December 12, 2008
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center
December 14, 2008
St. Monica
(Whitefish Bay)
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Kalinnikov’s
All Night Vigil
March 7, 2009
Basilica of St. Josaphat
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Vaughan Williams’
Flos Campi
May 9, 2009
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center
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2009 Tour
Argentina & Uruguay
June 27 - July 8, 2009
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2007-08 Concert Season
To puchase tickets via phone, call (414) 481-8801
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 3:00 pm
at the
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
19805 W. Capitol Dr., Brookfield
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IN THE BEGINNING
Two Revolutionaries Speak Twentieth-century American composer Aaron Copland and 18th-century Austrian composer Franz Josef Haydn both revolutionized the music of their time, creating compositional styles that radically changed the course of music. Some of their most beautiful works were initially written in intimate, chamber settings in response to specific situations, such as the limitations of the orchestra pit, or the exigencies of war. Whether using unaccompanied voices for In the Beginning, or 13 instruments for the original version of his suite drawn from the ballet Appalachian Spring, Copland melded modern, open harmonic structure with American folksong, evoking the vast American landscape. Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass was written with spare orchestration necessitated by war, and demonstrates that sometimes, less truly is more.
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 7:30 pm
at the
Hamilton Performing Arts Center
W220 N6151 Town Line Rd., Sussex
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LOVE AND SORROW
Our audience experienced the masterwork that brought Antonin Dvorák to international attention. Dvorák's setting of the Medieval Latin hymn Stabat Mater is a moving sacred work that was written during a period of profound personal grief. Composed for chorus, full orchestra and a quartet of soloists, the complex work was inspired by the Catholic sequence, "Stabat Mater Dolorosa." The mystic text describes the Virgin Mary’s grief as she witnessed the crucifixion of her son, Jesus. While the text is sacred, the work was not intended to be performed in a church, but rather in a formal concert setting. Stabat Mater transcends religious boundaries--speaking to the universal human experiences of loss, sorrow and hope.
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 December 8, 2007 - 7:30 pm
at the Hamilton Fine Arts Center
December 9, 2007 - 3:00 pm
at the Basilica of St. Josaphat
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FELIZ NAVIDAD
Guitars, charangos, and castanets accompanied the Bel Canto Chorus for a festive holiday experience. Twentieth-century composer Ariel Ramirez inspired a concert filled with light, color and irresistible South American energy. Ramirez's Misa Criolla, a folk mass of Argentinean flavors, was composed for tenor, chorus, native percussion and Andean flute. Misa Criolla was paired with Ramirez's Navidad Nuestra, filling this concert with the obsessive rhythms of Latin America. The evening also included carols and a sing-along. This concert was sponsored in part by Shully's Cuisine, Thiensville.
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Saturday, March 8, 2008 - 7:30 pm
at the
Basilica of St. Josaphat
2333 S. Sixth St. , Milwaukee
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MUSIC OF THE CATHEDRALS
Four lush masterpieces of unaccompanied choral art by composers of our own time reveal insightful and fervent expressions of faith. When David Heard, by Eric Whitacre, was a haunting and emotional setting of text from the Book of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. The young Ralph Vaughan Williams brought his inimitably English style to the Mass text in his double-chorus Mass in G Minor. Czech composer Zdenek Lukas, who has been described as "having a perfect understanding of the human voice," set standard liturgical text in his Requiem. Hymn to St. Cecilia by Benjamin Britten pays homage to the patron saint of music. We enjoyed this once in a lifetime performance of uncommon works in the most stunning of settings, the Basilica of St. Josaphat.
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