
Sounds of Remembrance


As listeners we often go to concerts to be uplifted, thrilled, and inspired but not very often to be challenged. I believe that music has the power to make us look inwards and to make us ponder. In Musica Viva’s next concert, Sounds of Remembrance, six extraordinary musical compositions and seven powerful poems are interwoven to create a continuum of sound that will challenge you to reflect and remember. I look forward to sharing this unique and moving program with you on Sunday, January 24 at 5PM at All Souls Church.
~ Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, Artistic Director
Program
The End and the Beginning by Wisława Szymborska
Adagio molto, from String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber
Dirge without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Death, be not proud by John Donne
WTC 9/11 by Steve Reich
Canzone by W. H. Auden
Cavatina, from String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 133 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Poem after the seventh word by Mark Strand
The Ecstasies Above by Tarik O’Regan
Remember by Christina Rossetti
The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
There will be rest by Frank Ticheli