{"id":21298,"date":"2023-05-13T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T02:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21298"},"modified":"2023-05-13T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T02:15:38","slug":"dacapo-chamber-choirs-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s &#8220;Restoration&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert &#8220;Restoration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leonard Enns &#8211; The Hymn of the Cherubim<\/li>\n<li>Don Macdonald &#8211; Tabula Rasa<\/li>\n<li>Caroline Shaw &#8211; And the Swallow<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Enns &#8211; A Great Tide of Love (premiere)\n<ul>\n<li>When Music Sounds<\/li>\n<li>The Farmer is King<\/li>\n<li>Foothils<\/li>\n<li>Carry Me Over the Deep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>David Archer &#8211; In Sweet Music<\/li>\n<li>Randall Thompson &#8211; Frostiana (excerpts)*\n<ul>\n<li>The Road Not Taken<\/li>\n<li>Choose Something Like a Star<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Emery &#8211; Night on a Starry Hill*<\/li>\n<li>Mikhail Glinka &#8211; The Hymn of the Cherubim*<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Adams &#8211; This Still Room (encore)*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sarah Flatt played piano on the Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The choir was joined by 15 alumni singers for the pieces marked *.<\/p>\n<p>Of the many sublime pieces, I found the Glinka the most sublime.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the choir is directed by Leonard Enns. In the program, he says &#8220;The current concert theme continues the theme of peace and civility, but at a largely personal level. This direction is driven by the current state of politics, and by a world in which truth seems more and more to be a negotiable concept.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert &#8220;Restoration.&#8221; Here is the program: Leonard Enns &#8211; The Hymn of the Cherubim Don Macdonald &#8211; Tabula Rasa Caroline Shaw &#8211; And the Swallow Leonard Enns &#8211; A Great Tide of Love (premiere) When Music Sounds The Farmer is King Foothils Carry Me Over the Deep David [&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-21298","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\/21298","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=21298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21301,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298\/revisions\/21301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}