Cascadian Chorale: Flights of Fancy

Ever since the first human gazed upward to birds soaring aloft has flight spurred the imagination. Eric Whitacre's "Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine" brilliantly depicts the Renaissance thinker's visionary struggles. Those inspirational birds appear in Stanford's "The Blue Bird" and works by Vancouver composer Stephen Chatman. Composer-in-Residence Greg Bartholomew provides music for three philosophical poems by his father, a pilot in World War II. We are also excited to premiere a new work… Show more by Joy Porter, who sings in our alto section. But surely the highlight of this concert is Thomas Tallis's massive, forty-part motet, "Spem in alium;" if ever a piece of music were a "flight of fancy," this is it!
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, by Eric Whitacre
Three Gnostic Poems, by Greg Bartholomew
Mosquitoes, by Stephen Chatman
Chickadee, by Stephen Chatman
Ascendens Christus in altum, by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spem in alium, by Thomas Tallis [in collaboration with Sine Nomine]
The Blue Bird, by Charles Villiers Stanford
When rooks fly homeward, by Arthur Baynon
Mondnacht, by Joy DeCoursey-Porter [world premiere]
Ezekiel saw the wheel, arranged by William L. Dawson
This program will also be presented on Saturday, March 16, 7 p.m., at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Medina, WA. See event #292812

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