Light Everlasting: Music of Faith, Hope and Love from Fairfax Choral Society
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall & Arts Center, NOVA Community College, Alexandria Campus (3001 N. Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311)
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The last date listed for Light Everlasting was Saturday March 20, 2010 / 8:00pm.
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Legendary composer-conductor Marvin Hamlisch joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a timely tribute to servicemen and women entitled Armed Forces Salute. A bona fide EGOT achiever (the rare accomplishment of having won at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award), Hamlisch is perhaps best-known for his work on Broadway and in film. On the stage, his beloved works include musical contributions to A Chorus Line and They're Playing Our Song, while on the screen, he's helped score such classics as The Sting, The Way We Were, The Spy Who Loved Me, Ordinary People, Sophie's Choice and many more. For this engagement, he'll lead the DSO through a mix of show tunes, movie medleys and patriotic favorites. Learn More
2 Goldstar Member Reviews
RJ
The strings and voices were heavenly. I enjoyed every second of it and recommend this event to anyone ready to just sit back and be entertained. Fantastic that people can blend such wonderful scores with such talented performers and all I had to do was sit back and escape into a world of wonder and imagination.Written on Mar 22 2010
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Like being at a live recording of a movie score. Beautiful!Written on Mar 22 2010
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Description
The first half of the concert, dedicated to sacred music that will nurture the soul, begins with an extraordinary new setting by the English composer Colin Mawby of the Lenten motet Ave Verum Corpus. Relatively unknown to American audiences, this sublime motet has been described as “stunningly beautiful” and “overwhelming in its impact.” The program continues with Musica Celestis, by the contemporary American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Another undiscovered gem, this gorgeous piece began life as the slow movement of a string quartet, and was soon transcribed for full string orchestra. Its evocations of endless hymns of praise to God include whispered strings in exquisite soft harmonies, with a gradual accretion to a treacherously high, keening string tessitura, before falling intervals coalesce to form a hauntingly spiritual and deeply satisfying conclusion. The sacred portion of the concert concludes with Gustav Holst’s inspired settings of Psalms 86 and 148, featuring hymn tune melodies that will be familiar to many. Following intermission, the focus of the program shifts to secular music as we present Five Hebrew Love Songs for string quartet and chorus by the contemporary American composer Eric Whitacre. The text for this choral suite originated as “postcards” written to the composer by the Israeli-born soprano, Hila Plitmann, who is now his wife. These delicately beautiful love poems are profoundly personal, each capturing a special moment shared between poet and musician. The concert culminates with a musical tribute to distinguished military veterans, especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country. Samuel Barber’s ubiquitous Adagio for Strings, leads into Last Letter Home, a heartrending choral setting of a recent letter written from Iraq by American soldier Jesse Givens to his wife Melissa. It came with instructions not to open the envelope unless he was killed. “Please, only read this if I don’t come home,” he wrote. “Please put it away and hopefully you will never have to read it.” Our concert then ends quietly with Tarik O’Regan’s As We Remember Them from his poignant cantata for string orchestra and chorus, followed by Lux Aeterna, a choral setting of Edward Elgar’s best-known and profoundly beautiful composition “Nimrod.”
About the Ticket Supplier: Fairfax Choral Society
The mission of the Fairfax Choral Society is to enrich the lives they touch through the performance, education, and appreciation of choral choral art.
FCS includes the 130 member Adult Symphonic Chorus and the 150 member Youth Choruses, the Da Capo Choir, Lyric Choir, Treble Choir, the Concert Choir, and the Master Singers.