DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “The Sun’s Birthday”
I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “The Sun’s Birthday.” The title is from a poem by e. e. cummings.
Here’s the program:
- Hymn of the Cherubim — Leonard Enns
- Cathedrals in the Sand (from Castles in the Sand) — Kevin Lau*
- Khorurd Metz — Vahram Sarkissian
- O nata lux — Morton Lauridsen
- Cantique de Jean Racine — Gabriel Fauré*
- Prelude — Ola Gjeilo
- The Sunne of Grace — Leonard Enns*
- Meditations — Kevin Pirker
- Morgen — Richard Strauss*
Several pieces were sung with harpist Angela Schwarzkopf.*
The Pirker, winner of the NewWorks competition, was a premiere. The composer was on hand for this occasion.
The choir is directed by Leonard Enns. About this season Enns says: “While the previous two years were planned with, first, displacement and then resettlement in mind, this year our focus is on renewal.” About this concert Enns says: “Our theme is renewal and new life, as expressed in stories of new birth, new beginning, and also simply in sun and light.”
I previously discussed their concert “There Will Be Rest.”