{"id":15163,"date":"2019-11-03T18:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2019-11-03T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:57:14","slug":"dacapo-chamber-choirs-the-suns-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-the-suns-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"DaCapo Chamber Choir\u2019s &#8220;The Sun&#8217;s Birthday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir\u2019s concert &#8220;The Sun&#8217;s Birthday.&#8221; The title is from a poem by e. e. cummings.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hymn of the Cherubim &#8212; Leonard Enns<\/li>\n<li>Cathedrals in the Sand (from Castles in the Sand) &#8212; Kevin Lau*<\/li>\n<li>Khorurd Metz &#8212; Vahram Sarkissian<\/li>\n<li>O nata lux &#8212; Morton Lauridsen<\/li>\n<li>Cantique de Jean Racine &#8212; Gabriel Faur\u00e9*<\/li>\n<li>Prelude &#8212; Ola Gjeilo<\/li>\n<li>The Sunne of Grace &#8212; Leonard Enns*<\/li>\n<li>Meditations &#8212; Kevin Pirker<\/li>\n<li>Morgen &#8212; Richard Strauss*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several pieces were sung with harpist Angela Schwarzkopf.*<\/p>\n<p>The Pirker, winner of the NewWorks competition, was a premiere. The composer was on hand for this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The choir is directed by Leonard Enns. About this season Enns says: &#8220;While the previous two years were planned with, first, displacement and then resettlement in mind, this year our focus is on renewal.&#8221; About this concert Enns says: &#8220;Our theme is renewal and new life, as expressed in stories of new birth, new beginning, and also simply in sun and light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I previously discussed their concert &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-there-will-be-rest\/\">There Will Be Rest<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir\u2019s concert &#8220;The Sun&#8217;s Birthday.&#8221; The title is from a poem by e. e. cummings. Here&#8217;s the program: Hymn of the Cherubim &#8212; Leonard Enns Cathedrals in the Sand (from Castles in the Sand) &#8212; Kevin Lau* Khorurd Metz &#8212; Vahram Sarkissian O nata lux &#8212; Morton Lauridsen Cantique de [&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-15163","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\/15163","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=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15168,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}