DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Preserve”
I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Preserve.”
Here’s the program:
- Pan from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid – Benjamin Britten
- oboe
- Another Spring – Tom Nazziola
- Everything – Rodney Sharman
- This Fragile Web – Christine Donkin
- with violin & piano
- Taiga – Leonard Enns
- with oboe & strings
- The Rose – Ola Gjeilo
- with piano & strings
The oboist was Jim Mason, the pianist was Catherine Robertson, and the string players were Gwyneth Thomson, Nora Pellerin, Rebecca Diderrich, and Miriam Stewart-Kroeker.
Although all the pieces were new to me, each one had something magnificent about it.
The piece that made the biggest impact was the Enns – it was the longest one, arranged in 5 movements. It was a premiere.
The choir is directed by Len Enns. He says in the program: “We leave the mad swirl of ‘news’ noise for the moment, and rest our thoughts in the quietly nurturing green home of the life-giving earth itself, in a ‘Mother Earth’ that both preserves and is worth preserving.”