DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Be Like a Bird”
I attended DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Be Like a Bird.”
Here’s the program:
- Be Like a Bird — Abbie Betinis
- One Ruby-throated Moment — Leonard Enns
- Mid-Winter Songs — Morten Lauridsen *
- Lament for Pasiphae
- Like Snow
- She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
- Mid-Winter Waking
- Intercession in Late October
- Ondine (Prelude, Book 2, No. 8) — Claude Debussy **
- Stars — Eriks Esenvalds
- Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine — Eric Whitacre
For one set of songs Catherine Robertson accompanied the choir on piano.* She also played a solo — the Debussy was a breath of fresh air.**
Of the songs I knew, the Esenvalds — which included wine glasses being played — grabbed me the most. Of the ones I didn’t know, the Whitacre was the most memorable.
The choir also sang a piece by a Ukrainian composer, in support of Ukraine. This was added after the program was printed.
Leonard Enns is the director. In the program he says, “Humanity wants to break free of gravitational pulls in many ways: particularly to be free of the old duo. war and pestilence. Still we reach — perhaps ‘resting on a bough to sight,’ but knowing we have wings.”
This was the first concert I attended in 2 years — it was very nice to get out and hear live music. Because of the pandemic, the audience was limited and everyone was masked.
The previous DaCapo concert I attended was “Life and love and wings.”