Event

Season of Seasons: Summer

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.

The morning sunrise, a day in the garden, a game of baseball summer may be short-lived in the Northwest, but its pleasures are deeply loved. Samuel Barber's choral masterpiece, "Reincarnations," captures both the season's calm and intense moments. Eric Whitacre's "A boy and a girl" depicts two young lovers alone at the beach. Music by Ástor Piazzolla, Harry Burleigh, Henk Badings, Randall Thompson, and the Cascadian Chorale's own Chris Fraley highlight various elements of the season. We will close the concert, and the season, with an overture: Composer-in-Residence Linda Gingrich's arrangement of Rossini's "William Tell Overture." Surely there is no sunnier piece to celebrate the brilliance of summer!