The Festival Chorale: Together, This Spring
The Mendocino Music Festival Chorale will perform a concert celebrating Spring and togetherness. Special treats will be the beloved Biebl Ave Maria and the Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine, with harpist Anna Maria Mendieta. Other music includes pieces by Florence Price, Randall Thompson, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Matthew Evans, Director; Robin Knutson, piano; Susan Maeder, reader; Anna Maria Mendieta, harp
“The Waking” – David Conte
Ave Maria – Franz Biebl
Quatre Motets sur des themes grègoriénes, Op. 10 – Maurice Duruflé
En Bateau – Claude Debussy (solo harp)
Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Fauré
– INTERMISSION –
Alleluia – Randall Thompson
Dirait-on – Morten Lauridsen
“The Coolin” – Samuel Barber
“The Spring Time of the Year” – Ralph Vaughan Williams
“Bright Morning Stars” – Appalachian hymn; arr. Shawn Kirchner
- Soprano: Claire Armstrong, Barbara Barkovich, Safari Dushime, Cynthia Frank, Robin Knutson, Bessy Krauss, Rachel Lahn, Kathy O’Shea, Laura Vague
- Alto: Cathy Boxell, Jo Britton, Linda Cristman, Deborah Farmar, Evelyn Harris, Cathy Jordan
- Tenor: Kom Dixon, Eric Hillesland, Pamela Hudson, Ernest Witt
- Bass: James Blanton, Paul Friesen, Jason Kirkman, Randy Knutson
Saturday, May 4, 2024 and Sunday, May 5, 2024, at 3:00 PM.
BUY TICKETSThe Mendocino Music Festival Chorale was formed in 2018 as an offshoot of the much larger Festival Chorus, whose members were invited to audition. The work has been ongoing, even throughout the pandemic, creating heart-warming and memorable concerts. If you’d like to support this excellent singing, please consider joining the Friends of the Chorale.
Festival Artistic Director Allan Pollack: “I’ve been touched by the dedication of the members of the Festival Chorus, and so have wanted to create an opportunity for people who are ready to take their choral singing to the next level.”