by Tevya Washburn | Jan 13, 2008 | Past Concerts
To celebrate winter, this concert on January 13, 2008, featured a variety of works both sacred and secular. Highlights included Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and the premiere of a new piece, “Herself A Rose,” by Eleanor Daley in honor of WVC...
by Tevya Washburn | May 4, 2007 | Past Concerts
A celebration of love in all forms, this concert on Friday, May 4th, 2007, featured a second performance of our last-commissioned work, Lana Walter’s Welcome Love. The four a cappella settings of 17th-century love poems were a chorus favorite from the moment we...
by Tevya Washburn | Jan 27, 2007 | Past Concerts
This concert on January 27, 2007, featured Amy Beach’s The Chambered Nautilus, a major work with lush, impressionistic harmonies we first performed in 2000. Its text, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, challenges the listener to summon the courage to grow and change. We...
by Tevya Washburn | May 5, 2006 | Past Concerts
On Friday, May 5, 2006, Women’s Voices Chorus performed an airborne program of music inspired by things that fly. Mendelssohn’s “Surrexit pastor bonus,” with its Easter angel dialogue; Emma Lou Diemer’s Hope is the Thing , a suite of...
by Tevya Washburn | Jan 21, 2006 | Past Concerts
What is it that makes music from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales speak to us so clearly? Partly it is our common language: we will usually understand the words. British music is also eminently singable. Is it their heritage of folk tunes that has shaped British...
by Tevya Washburn | May 6, 2005 | Past Concerts
A salt-water program on Friday, May 6, 2005, featuring Amy Beach’s “The Sea Faeries”, the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “From the Green Heart of the Waters,” Leonie Holmes’s “The Estuary,” and a...
