Ottawa Choral Society
Presents

Saturday, February 16, 2008
8:00 PM

Ottawa Choral Society
Matthew Larkin  CONDUCTOR

Michèle Bogdanowicz  SOPRANO
Teresa van den Boogaard  ORGAN
Lucile Brais Hildesheim  HARP
Matthew Larkin  PIANO
Percussion ensemble

Tickets: Adults $30, Students $10

Tickets may be purchased on-line at www.ottawachoralsociety.com
Collected Works in Westboro (Wellington at Holland)
Leading Note (370 Elgin)
Compact Music in the Glebe (785A Bank St)
and CD Warehouse (all Locations)
and at the door
Information 613-725-2560
www.ottawachoralsociety.com

 

CHICHESTER PSALMS  Leonard Bernstein

IN THE BEGINNING
TWELVE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
Aaron Copland

ADAGIO FOR STRINGS  Samuel Barber
(arr. for chorus by Barber - 1967)

In the middle decades of the 20th century, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein tapped the pulse of popular American culture and gave birth to a new kind of music. Pumped up with the frenetic energy of urban jazz yet also suffused with the expansive tranquility of the American landscape, the music was honest and idiomatic. Along with their large legacy of art songs and serious classical and operatic works, their ballet, broadway and film scores have become the signature tunes of a nation. This evening's music brings you the raw intensity and the elegiac quietude that are the hallmarks of their American voices.