Manitoba Live Music Event

Songs of Darkness and Light

Date
Sunday, Oct 29, 2017 at 3pm
Performers
Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir
Location
Crescent Fort Rouge United Church
Address
525 Wardlaw Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

About

We are excited to once again perform in the WSO’s annual fall festival. With a theme like Angels and Demons, Winnipeg is in for a week of drama and contrasts!

Songs of Darkness and Light is divided into two halves. Darkness, narrated by Derek Morphy, opens with Brahms’ gentle and foreboding Nächtens (At Night), followed by The Furies’ Scene from Gluck’s most popular opera, Orfeo ed Eurydice, and The Witches’ Chorus from Verdi’s Macbeth. Britten’s mystical choral masterpiece Rejoice in the Lamb and Mendelssohn’s Come with Torches Brightly Flashing from Die Erste Walpurgisnacht round out the first half.

Light, narrated by Andrea Ratuski, will kick off with Daniel Pinkham’s In the Beginning of Creation, and the Genesis theme continues with selections from Haydn’s Creation. The uplifting second half also features two works by Russian composers: Sergei Taneyev’s Sunrise, and Dmitry Bortniansky’s choral concerto The King Shall Rejoice in Thy Strength, O Lord; American composer Morten Lauridsen’s O Nata Lux; Edward Elgar’s Lux Aeterna, based on Nimrod from his Enigma Variations; and selections from Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

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