{"id":24267,"date":"2025-03-02T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T23:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24267"},"modified":"2025-03-02T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T23:48:25","slug":"dacapo-chamber-choirs-starry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-starry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s &#8220;Starry Night&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert &#8220;Starry Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the program:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sven-David Sandstr\u00f6m \u2013 Ah, Sunflower!<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Kelly \u2013 Earthrise<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Enns \u2013 Nocturne<\/li>\n<li>Eriks E\u0161envalds \u2013 Stars<\/li>\n<li>Morten Lauridsen \u2013 Sure on this Shining Night*<\/li>\n<li>Laura Hawley \u2013 Be Music, Night<\/li>\n<li>Eric Whitacre \u2013 Water Night<\/li>\n<li>Randal Thompson \u2013 Choose Something Like a Star*<\/li>\n<li>Jake Runestad \u2013 Let My Love Be Heard<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Emery \u2013 Night on a Starry Hill<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Enns \u2013 The Day is Done<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*with pianist, Kento Stratford<\/p>\n<p>The concert was dedicated to Jennie Wiebe, a choir member who recently died.<\/p>\n<p>The choir is directed by Leonard Enns. He writes in the program: &#8220;The stars delight us, teach us, bring hope and comfort, guide us, and give us perspective. Perhaps, if we allow ourselves, we even hear the &#8216;music of the spheres.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were several pieces I knew, which is very nice. Of all the great pieces, the Whitacre is my favourite.<\/p>\n<p>The pieces have harmonies that will make you sit up and take notice. The choir is terrific, from sparkling highs to rumbling lows.<\/p>\n<p>The appreciative audience gave the choir a standing ovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert &#8220;Starry Night.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the program: Sven-David Sandstr\u00f6m \u2013 Ah, Sunflower! Nicholas Kelly \u2013 Earthrise Leonard Enns \u2013 Nocturne Eriks E\u0161envalds \u2013 Stars Morten Lauridsen \u2013 Sure on this Shining Night* Laura Hawley \u2013 Be Music, Night Eric Whitacre \u2013 Water Night Randal Thompson \u2013 Choose Something Like a [&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-24267","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\/24267","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=24267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24271,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24267\/revisions\/24271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}