You won't want to miss the San Francisco Lyric Chorus, under the direction of Robert Gurney, as they present:  Classical Music of Canada and Brazil

Saturday, April 25, 2009
8 p.m.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
5 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Church
Bush & Gough Streets
San Francisco

Tickets:  General $20; Seniors & Advance, $17
Free admission for students 5-18
Please, no children under five
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For information call (415) 721-4077

PROGRAM:

José Maurício Nunes Garcia--Requiem
Stephen Chatman--Two Rossetti Songs
Stephen Chatman--Gloria
Healey Willan--Rise Up, My Love
Healey Willan--O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song
Imant Raminsh--Ave Verum Corpus
Ruth Watson Henderson--Sing All Ye Joyful
Srul Irving Glick--What I Have Learned Is This
Srul Irving Glick--The Hour Has Come

FEATURING:

Robert Train Adams, Organ

Our featured work is the Requiem by the remarkable Afro-Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia, 1767-1830.  Grandson of slaves, he is known as the Brazilian Mozart.  He was a priest, composer, singer, violinist, pianist, teacher of prominent Brazilian composers, and chapel master to the court-in-exile of Portuguese King João IV.  He introduced Brazil to the works of Mozart and Haydn and other European composers.  His Requiem is reminiscent of Mozart’s great work, with added Romantic elements.
 
We also present modern and contemporary choral music from Canada.  University of British Columbia professor Stephen Chatman's Two Rossetti Songs are lyrical settings of poems by Dante and Christina Rossetti.  His Gloria is an energetic, rhythmic contrast.  Healey Willan's Rise Up, My Love and O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song are wonderful anthems by the father of Canadian choral music.  Latvian immigrant Imant Raminsh's Ave Verum Corpus is an exquisite work in the Eastern Orthodox tradition.  Ruth Watson Henderson's Sing All Ye Joyful is a delightful setting of text from Tolkien's The Hobbit.  Srul Irving Glick was one of Canada's most performed and recorded composers.  His What I Have Learned Is This is a movement from his memorial to Leonard Bernstein.  The Hour Has Come is the last movement of a six-part work with that title, expressing the beauty of the earth and exclaiming dramatic warning that we must come together in harmony before we and the earth perish.