Event

Season of Seasons: Spring

Join the Cascadian Chorale for a musical exploration of the four seasons. Each concert during our 2010 season will explore its unique time of year. We will celebrate the changes in nature together with holidays and other cultural traditions. Several composers will re-appear throughout the year, including Randall Thompson, Edward Elgar, Ástor Piazzolla, and P.D.Q. Bach. We will draw particular attention to music by Northwest composers such as Morten Lauridsen, Bern Herbolsheimer, Giselle Wyers, Chris Fraley, and our new Composer-in-Residence, Linda Gingrich. Works by Monteverdi, Haydn, Brahms, Holst, Barber, Whitacre, and many other masters will demonstrate the diversity, whimsy, and beauty found throughout the year.

Love, flowers, birdsong... no season brings as much color to our lives and surround-ings as spring. Works by Randall Thompson, Composer-in-Residence Linda Gingrich, and Artistic Director Gary Cannon celebrate the joys of love. Music of Morten Lauridsen adorns French poetry by Rainier Rilke in a musical bouquet devoted to the rose, that most beautiful of flowers. We will celebrate newborn birth both literal and figurative in premiering a new work by major American composer William Hawley. Favorite madrigals by Monteverdi, Morley, Gershwin and P.D.Q. Bach evoke the season's brightness and levity. In honor of our rainy home, we include Edward Elgar's gentle The Shower. After all, this is a tribute to spring.