Fall Concert
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 3:00 PM
First United Methodist
Church
64
East North Street, Carlisle
Two major works highlight
Cantate Carlisle's fall
concerts:
Francis Poulenc’s most popular work,
Gloria
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical
Songs, wonderful settings of George Herbert texts for baritone
soloist and choir
The popularity of the festive Gloria may be due in part to some wonderfully
sculpted melodies that are repeated often enough to resound in the listeners’ memories long after the
performance is finished. Rhythmically and harmonically satisfying as well, the piece explores the many moods of
the text from majestic to playful to introspective to sublime.
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Heather
Oliver Kot, area soloist and voice
teacher, will perform the evocative solo sections of this exciting work with her rich, dramatic
soprano voice.
Cantate Carlisle also Welcomes
organist
Brian Rotzin this collaboration, for a significant aspect of the piece is the rich palate
of tone colors featured in the accompaniment.The compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams appeal to a wide audience, possibly
due to his notable cataloging, and incorporation of
the
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English folk song into
his vast compass of compositional output. The Five
Mystical Songs range
from introspectively reverent to powerfully moving
Many listeners will
recognize the hymn tune Let All the World in EveryCorner
Sing, the concluding movement of
the set.
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Cantate Carlisle is
thrilled to join with renowned baritone
Jonathan
Hays to present these wonderfully
colorful and thought provoking songs. Jonathan hails from the Harrisburg area and
has built a successful career as a performing artist on stages all across the
country, including Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. He is known for his
interpretative skills in genres ranging from operas of Mozart, Puccini, and Wagner
to Bach cantatas, Handel
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oratorios, and contemporary works of
Britten, Hindemith and
Bloch. Mr. Hays
continues to perform throughout
the country while also maintaining a voice
studio at both Dickinson College and Susquehanna
University.
Several shorter works will round out the fall program, including anthems
by
celebrated
British composer William Mathias and hymn settings and sacred
pieces by John
Rutter, Mack Wilberg, Mark Hayes and Z. Randall Stroope.
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