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Chicago Bach Project named one of Chicago's top ten!
Chicago Classical Review has named our Chicago Bach Project's 2011 presentation of Bach's St. Matthew Passion one of Chicago's "Top 10 Performances of 2011"! Join the celebration by getting your tickets now to the upcoming Chicago Bach Project performance of the St. John Passion on April 4, 2012.
more infoMidwest Premiere of Vache Sharafyan's SDG-Commission
If you will be anywhere near Wheaton, Illinois, on January 22, 2012, you are invited to attend a Sunday afternoon concert by the Avalon String Quartet, who will be performing the midwest premiere of Vache Sharafyan's work, Have Mercy on Me, O God. The concert is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. at College Church, 332 E. Seminary Avenue, Wheaton, IL. Admission is free; an offering will be taken. For further information, contact the church at 630-668-0878.
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Wyner Choral Work Is Next Premiere in SDG’s Psalms Project
West Window,
American Cathedral in Paris
Soli Deo Gloria is pleased to announce the world premiere of the next SDG commission in the Psalms Project, The Lord is close to the heartbroken, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner.
Written for mixed chorus, the work is based on Psalms 34 and 68, using what the composer calls “a slight mélange” of several scripture translations. He has carefully selected his text with a keen ear for language that is singable and with a desire to call attention to what he describes as “the remarkable purity and hopefulness of the text itself.”
World premiere of new Mass by Einojuhani Rautavaara
Finnish composer
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Photo: Maarit Kytoharju / Fimic
A notable event took place on November 25, 2011, in the Netherlands. The Jacobikerk in Utrecht was the site of the world premiere of a new 25-minute choral work, Missa a cappella, by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, performed by the internationally renowned Netherlands Radio Choir.
The event is notable for several reasons, the first and foremost being that a new large-scale work by Rautavaara, the leading Finnish composer of his generation, is a major event in itself. The Mass, which has been forty years in gestation (he wrote the Credo in 1972), not only has intrinsic value but also constitutes something of a spiritual testament. It was received with a standing ovation, with the choir repeating the beautiful Agnus Dei as an encore.
Chicago Bach Project 2012 Tickets Now On Sale
John Nelson conducting the Chicago Bach Choir and Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach
ST. JOHN PASSION, BWV 245
APRIL 4, 2012
8:00 p.m.
John NELSON, conductor
Nicholas PHAN, Evangelist
Stephen MORSCHECK, Jesus
Lucy CROWE, soprano
Meredith ARWADY, contralto
Marc MOLOMOT, tenor
Matthew BROOK, bass
CHICAGO BACH Choir and Orchestra
Donald NALLY, chorus master
Saint Vincent de Paul Church
1010 W. Webster Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
