{"id":7543,"date":"2015-11-15T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T01:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:32:31","slug":"dacapo-chamber-choirs-winding-toward-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-winding-toward-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"DaCapo Choir&#8217;s &#8220;Winding Toward Peace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s first concert of the season, &#8220;Winding Toward Peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Kevin Ramessar joined the choir &#8212; I think I&#8217;ve seen him before, a while ago. It&#8217;s a bit unusual for a guitar to be played with a choir but it worked well in this case.<\/p>\n<p>The choir and guitarist were terrific. Len Enns conducts the choir.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the pieces. I&#8217;ll put a * beside the ones the choir sang and a + beside the ones Ramessar played.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choral improvisation*+<\/li>\n<li>His Gift &#8212; Kevin Ramessar+<\/li>\n<li>Prelude from In Memorium Elmer Iseler &#8212; Ruth Watson Henderson*<\/li>\n<li>A Procession Winding Around Me &#8212; Jeffrey Van*+<\/li>\n<li>Come lovely and soothing death &#8212; James Rolfe*<\/li>\n<li>In Paradisum &#8212; Kathleen Allan*<\/li>\n<li>Elegy for a King &#8212; Frederic Hand+<\/li>\n<li>Evolution from Ten Thousand Rivers of Oil &#8212; Leonard Enns*<\/li>\n<li>Veni, Sancte spiritus &#8212; Mark Sirett*<\/li>\n<li>The Rune of Hospitality &#8212; Alf Houkom*+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;A Procession Winding Around Me&#8221; was a great piece in 4 parts. The ones that grabbed me the most were &#8220;In Paradisum&#8221; and &#8220;Elegy for a King.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed DaCapo&#8217;s concert &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-sun-light\/\">Sun Light<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s first concert of the season, &#8220;Winding Toward Peace.&#8221; Guitarist Kevin Ramessar joined the choir &#8212; I think I&#8217;ve seen him before, a while ago. It&#8217;s a bit unusual for a guitar to be played with a choir but it worked well in this case. The choir and guitarist were [&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-7543","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\/7543","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=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9283,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions\/9283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}