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.
"Paging Through" features the music of Tonia Ko, this year's competition winner. Ko's work "From Ivory Depths" is her response to reading Virginia Woolf's short story "Monday or Tuesday:" "Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions-trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday."
Another literature-inspired piece on the program is John Muehleisen's "... is knowing ...," based on Gertrude Stein's poetry.
Volti will also sing Kui Dong's "Painted Lights," sharing the stage with the remarkable young singers of Ensemble, from the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir.
Rounding out the program are two short pieces using texts from the Bible and the Qur'an to comment on current world events. Italian composer Paolo Longo sets a portion of Psalm 2, "Quare fremuerunt gentes" - Why do the nations rage and the people plot in vain? - and perhaps Seattle's Eric Banks answers in "The paths of peace," the final movement of his Twelve Qur'anic Visions - "God will guide all who seek his favor unto the paths of peace."
DISCLAIMER: Our aim is to continuously provide our
progressive audience with an open and interactive medium to view
and share relevant,
beneficial and interesting "career, economic, lifestyle and
networking" listings, ads, content and resources.
While the above information may be accurate and viable, the role
of Minority Professional Network, Inc. (MPN) is
strictly as a communications medium, and we do not
accept any responsibility for
cancellation, changes, errors, omissions, inconveniences, or any other form
of liability for any content
displayed or disseminated via our web sites, or e-marketing or social media
promotional services.
If there are any
doubts, we
encourage you to conduct additional research or contact the listed host or responsible entity.
CLICK HERE to inform us about any ads, listings or content
which appear to be
inappropriate,
fraudulent or misleading, or inconsistent with our theme and focus.