And in most areas of society, conf lict is something we very much want to resolve. Gjeilo says: РІР‚СљThere isnРІР‚в„ўt anything wrong with dissonance, as conf lict and discord is a natural part of life and necessary for all positive development and maturation. The two choirs weave under and over each other, each making crescendo and diminuendo, the entries dovetailing, sometimes creating a deliberate dissonance as they overlap. Gjeilo describes the opening movement, The Spheres, as РІР‚Сљf loating in space, in deep silence, between stars and planets.РІР‚Сњ The choir and orchestra enter divisi and pianissimo, each singing a single syllable from the Kyrie text, taking over from each other with another syllable of the same or a different word. He has created a number of scores for short f ilms his interest in this medium is palpable in the tone-painting (portrayal of visual effect through sound) in the Sunrise Mass for Choir and String Orchestra (2008) that we perform today. GjeiloРІР‚в„ўs musical inf luences include classical, jazz, and folk music, in particular Keith Jarrett, Philip Glass and John Adams. His music is receiving worldwide attention. He has received many commissions and prizes, has beenm Composer-in-Residence for the Grammy-award winning Phoenix (Arizona) Chorale, conducted by Charles Bruffy, and has been featured on PBS. He has also studied f ilm composition and scoring at the University of Southern California. Sunrise MassР”В¬omposer Ola Gjeilo has earned degrees from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Royal College of Music, London, and the Juilliard School, New York. Textual repetitions, especially of the onomatopoeic festina, РІР‚Сљhurry,РІР‚Сњ create a playful urgency. The rapid-f ire antiphonal exchanges between the two groups return in the third section. By contrast, in the middle section, the two groups sing and play in unison, with restrained passion. In the f irst section, each choir takes a turn at leading and answering the other. The whole piece is all of two and a half minutes in duration, and the choirs sing only the one sentence, but there are three structurally distinct sections, A-B-A, making a small but tasty musical sandwich. The music requires that the ensemble, both choir and orchestra, divide into two groups, collaborating with and opposing each other. One might expect a supplication for single-pointed prayer to be somber, but Vivaldi applies his signature sparkle in setting the second of these sentences, Domine ad adjuvandum me festina (РІР‚СљO Lord, make haste to help meРІР‚Сњ) to give us a zesty little gem of a piece. The supplicant recites these prefatory lines to implore the assistance of God in warding off distractions to prayer. Two Latin sentences introduce all the prayers of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church.

Notes by Shulamit Hoffmann Р’В© 2013 Texts and Translations Domine ad adjuvandum me festina (3 minutes) The World Beloved: A Bluegrass MassРІР‚вЂњCarol Barnett (b. (4 minutes) Maple Leaf RagРІР‚вЂњ Scott Joplin (1867-1917) (12 minutes) Down to the River to PrayРІР‚вЂњTraditional American, arranged by Sheldon Curry Kennedy at Madison Square Garden on November 25, 1963, Leonard Bernstein said: РІР‚СљThis will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.РІР‚Сњ St PaulРІР‚в„ўs Suite (Op. At a United Jewish Appeal tribute to John F. Viva la Musica dedicates our performance of Sunrise Mass to the victims of the Boston bombing. Identity (Sanctus) & The Ground (Benedictus/Agnus Dei) (2.5 minutes) Sunrise MassРІР‚вЂњ Ola Gjeilo (b. Grant us peace.Blue Skies, Blue Grass Concerts Spring 2013Р”Вomine ad adjuvandum me Festina (Psalm 69) RV 593РІР‚вЂњAntonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Apologies inР’В advance for the few moments when theР’В levels get overwhelmed, but thisР’В is theР’В video that comes closest to capturing the sheer majesty of the piece as I heard it yesterday. The Tabernacle Choir are several weeks behind on getting up their broadcasts on video, so instead IРІР‚в„ўll give you the UBC University SingersРІР‚в„ў performance of the piece. It was an excellent program all around, but one piece in particular stood out The Ground, from the Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo, a Norwegian composer. We lucked out and caught a week when the Orchestra at Temple Square was part of the program, as well as a visiting choir from Estonia (The Alumnae Choir of Tallinn University of Technology, I believe). Yesterday we drove downtown to listen to Music and the Spoken WordР’В live.

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