Event

Autumn Nights

Autumn Nights
with special guests Christina Siemens, piano; Karen Sunmark, percussion; and Jerry Oram (10/20) and Vince Green (10/21), trumpet.

Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 8:00 p.m
Holy Rosary Church, 4200 SW Genesee St., Seattle

Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.
Blessed Sacrament Church, 5041 Ninth Ave. NE, Seattle
The autumn night takes the moons armand dances west toward the heavenly bluewith veils of northern lights Opus 7 presents a concert for that most beautiful time of year in the Northwest. As the heat of summer days passes into the brilliant colors of autumn, join Opus 7 as they fill the night with beautiful, multi-hued music on this concert of works inspired by the magic and melancholy of autumn.

Featured works include:

Sir Edward Elgar: As Torrents in Summer
Irving Fine: Design for October from The Choral New Yorker
Stefn Arason: The autumn night takes the moons arm from Fimm vsur um nttina
Samuel Barber: Mary Hynes from Reincarnations
Sir Michael Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air
John Muehleisen: Snow. The Kings Trumpeter
William Bergsma: Riddle Me This
Robert Scandrett: Shes Like a Swallow
Stephen Foster/Craig Hella Johnson: Hard times come again no more
William Bolcom: Worn Faces & Portrait from The Mask
Carol Barnett: Webster from An American Thanksgiving
Frank Tichelli: There will be rest

Opus 7 has been invited to perform at the annual conference of the NW chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in Vancouver, BC in February of 2008, and several works from this program will be featured on that performance.