The Bay Area's acclaimed contemporary music chamber chorus, Volti, is spending its 37th season celebrating three composers it helped to discover through its young composer competition - the Choral Arts Laboratory (CAL). CAL was founded in 2003 in order to give American composers under the age of 35 an opportunity to work with a highly skilled professional vocal ensemble during the compositional process - to learn what voices can (and cannot) do, how to write for the voice and for a group of voices.
"The Next Page" continues in March, featuring the music of Robert Paterson, who has composed a piece based on the graffiti he sees in the world around him. Volti will sing the world premiere of "Graffiti Canons" along with excerpts from "The Essence of Gravity," Paterson's CAL composition from 2005, and "Eternal Reflections," commissioned by Volti in 2009. Robert Paterson's compositions have been described by New Music Box as "vibrantly scored and well-crafted" music that "often seems to shimmer."
The concert will also feature music of David Lang, Ingrid Stolzel and Mark Winges. * David Lang's "again" is a short adaptation of a few lines of Ecclesiastes, "moving from the cycling of the seasons to other endless natural and human cycles, creating a strange equilibrium of hope and futility." * In "Into Being," Ingrid Stolzel sets the Sanskrit Mantra "So ham ham sa" "the breath that connects us all and brings everything into being." * Finally, Volti reprises resident composer Mark Winges's "Canticles of Rumi," settings of five poems by the founder of Sufism. Rumi's words offer an all-encompassing spirituality relevant to our times: being present in the moment, finding the holiness in laughter.
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