| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Ecstatic meditations / Aaron Jay Kernis (17:10) -- Endless / Kurt Rohde (12:21) -- Ccollanan María / Gabriela Lena Frank (5:43) -- Metaphor / Ronald Caltabiano (7:12) -- O the flesh is hot but the heart is cold / Eric Moe (9:28) -- Open the book of what happened / Mark Winges (13:13) -- Sonnets of beauty and music [Still will I harvest beauty where it grows. On hearing a symphony of Beethoven.] / Stacy Garrop (7:44) -- Two motets / William Hawley (4:12) |
| Summary |
San Francisco's celebrated 20-voice chamber choir explores innovative new works for unaccompanied voices by eight contemporary American composers |
| Notes |
Streaming audio |
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For unaccompanied mixed voices |
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Texts by Mechthild of Magdeburg (1st work), Jakob Stein (2nd work), William Blake (4th work), John Donne (4th work), Walt Whitman (4th work), Matthea Harvey (5th work), Caroline Forché (6th work), Edna St. Vincent Millay (7th work), Decimus Magnus Ausonius (8th work), Gaius Petronius Arbiter (8th work), and from a traditional religious tune from Cuzco, Peru (3rd work) |
| Performer |
Volti ; Robert Geary, conductor |
| Event |
Recorded in Calif. May 2007-May 2009 at the Unitarian Universalist Center, Kensington, CA; St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco; and Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland |
| Notes |
Sung in English, except for the 3rd work in Quechua and Spanish, and the 8th work in Latin |
| Subject |
Mechthild, of Magdeburg, approximately 1212-approximately 1282 -- Musical settings
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Stein, Jakob -- Musical settings
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Harvey, Matthea, 1973- -- Musical settings
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Forché, Carolyn -- Musical settings
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 -- Musical settings
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus -- Musical settings
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Petronius Arbiter -- Musical settings
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| SUBJECT |
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus fast |
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Forché, Carolyn fast |
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Harvey, Matthea, 1973- fast |
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Mechthild, of Magdeburg, approximately 1212-approximately 1282 fast |
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 fast |
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Petronius Arbiter fast |
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Music -- Computer network resources
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Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
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Motets.
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Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
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Motets
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Music -- Computer network resources
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Streaming audio
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Musical settings
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Musical settings.
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Mises en musique.
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Streaming audio
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| Author |
Geary, Robert (Conductor)
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Kernis, Aaron Jay.
Ecstatic meditations.
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Rohde, Kurt.
Endless.
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Frank, Gabriela Lena.
Ccollanan María.
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Caltabiano, Ronald, 1959-
Metaphor.
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Moe, Eric.
O the flesh is hot but the heart is cold.
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Winges, Mark, 1951-
Open the book of what happened.
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Garrop, Stacy, 1969-
Sonnets of beauty and music.
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Hawley, William, 1950-
Motets, mixed voices
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Mechthild, of Magdeburg, approximately 1212-approximately 1282.
Fliessende Licht der Gottheit. Selections. English.
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Stein, Jakob.
Endless. Selections
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Harvey, Matthea, 1973-
Baked Alaska, a theory of
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
Still will I harvest beauty where it grows
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
On hearing a symphony of Beethoven
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Forché, Carolyn.
On earth. Selections
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus.
Mosella. Selections. English
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Petronius Arbiter.
Te vigilans oculis
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