{"id":11456,"date":"2017-11-11T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2017-11-14T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:14:18","slug":"dacapo-choirs-the-colour-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/dacapo-choirs-the-colour-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"DaCapo Choir&#8217;s &#8220;The Colour of Freedom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert titled &#8220;The Colour of Freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This concert is the start of DaCapo&#8217;s &#8220;three-year series inspired by the global refugee situation. The series is organized around general themes of Displacement (this season), Resettlement (18\/19), and Renewal (19\/20). Motivating the plan is the conviction that art is necessary and possibly central to the development and maintenance of civil society, and that it can serve as leaven for peace-making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horizons &#8212; Peter van Dijk<\/li>\n<li>Psalm 137 &#8212; J. Scott Brubacher<\/li>\n<li>Colour of Freedom &#8212; Iman Habibi\n<ul>\n<li>with Amir Haghighi, soloist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Song of Invocation &#8212; Sheldon Rose<\/li>\n<li>Candles &#8212; Christine Donkin<\/li>\n<li>Tal vez tenemos tiempo &#8212; Tarik O&#8217;Regan<\/li>\n<li>To You before the close of day &#8212; Jeff Enns<\/li>\n<li>This still room &#8212; Jonathan Adams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;big&#8221; piece of the night was &#8220;Colour of Freedom.&#8221; The soloist sings in a traditional Persian style, very different from what I&#8217;m used to hearing. The piece was written in response to the election protests and crackdown on them that took place in Iran in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The audience was very enthusiastic about Haghighi, giving him a standing ovation &#8212; he came back to do an encore at the end. They were also enthusiastic about the choir, giving them a standing ovation after the 2nd half.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of harmonies, my favourite piece was the O&#8217;Regan.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, it was a glorious concert. Leonard Enns directs the choir.<\/p>\n<p>I previously discussed their concert &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-o-canada\/\">O, Canada!<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert titled &#8220;The Colour of Freedom.&#8221; This concert is the start of DaCapo&#8217;s &#8220;three-year series inspired by the global refugee situation. The series is organized around general themes of Displacement (this season), Resettlement (18\/19), and Renewal (19\/20). Motivating the plan is the conviction that art is necessary and possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[91,13,5],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-of-music","tag-classical","tag-music","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11490,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions\/11490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}