Chapel Music
Five diverse songs for chorus and orchestra
- Year
- 2014
- Duration
- 30'
- Category
- Vocal Music
- Texts
- Text by George Herbert, St. John of the Cross, Henry David Thoreau, William Butler Yeats and the Bible
- Dedication
- Composed for the Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University, and the Alice Millar Chapel Choir and Northwestern Symphony Orchestra
- Commission
- commissioned by Northwestern University for the 50th Anniversary Birthday Celebration Concert
- Premiere
- February, 9th 2014
The Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Alice Millar Chapel Choir University Singers Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble Millar Brass Ensemble Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra Dr. Stephen Alltop - Music Director and Conductor - Purchase
- Schott Helicon
- Movements
- I Alleluia Cantate Domino Psalm 149.1
- II King of Glory Herbert
- III Noche Oscura Del Alma (Dark Night of the Soul) St. John of the Cross
- IV Smoke Thoreau
- V The Everlasting Voices Yeats
Program Notes
I have long been drawn to music’s timeless and universal qualities and my work attempts to engage those deeply felt human impulses embraced in the words of Henry David Thoreau: ‘When I hear music, I fear no danger, I am invulnerable, I see no foe, I am related to the earliest times, and to the last.’
Throughout my life, poetry and poetic images have nourished, propelled, and stimulated my musical imagination. I am also reminded of composer Béla Bartók’s remark that, ‘as a man grows more mature, it seems that he has a greater longing to be more economical with his means, in order to achieve simplicity.’– Joseph Schwantner
Images
Alleluia Cantate Domino- Song I from Chapel Music
King of Glory, King of Peace-Song II from Chapel Music
Smoke- Song IV from Chapel Music