The professional vocal ensemble Volti opens its 45th season of “singing without a net” with a concert of beautiful and groundbreaking contemporary music by a wonderfully diverse group of composers, setting words by some of the world’s greatest poets. Robert Geary conducts. Join us for an evening of music you’ve never heard, that you’ll never forget!
“Livro das Cores” (The Book of Colors) – the Bay Area premiere of a 2022 work by Brazilian composer Marcos Balter, setting texts by the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
“Being: Two Collins Songs” — Volti reprises a 2010 commission from Yu-Hui Chang, setting two poems by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins.
“Words Cast Shadows” — Volti’s resident composer Mark Winges sets poetry by the “eloquent and exacting poet” Jane Hirshfield.
“Attired with Stars” — British-American composer Freya Waley-Cohen explores extracts from John Milton’s “On Time” and Aleksandr Pushkin’s “A Little Bird.”
“a carol called love” — a new work from LJ White, a graduate of Volti’s young composer program, in which each singer chooses what words to sing from a large “text bank” of phrases all beginning with “I love …”
“nanuniku” — Sinaporean composer Emily Koh remembers Teochew lullabies and nonsense words her grandparents used with her when she was a young child.
Volti is a proud participant in California Festival 2023, A Celebration of New Music created by the LA Phil, San Francisco Symphony, and San Diego Symphony and including more than 50 organizations from across the state.
The program will also be presented on Saturday November 4 at 8 PM at Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez Street in San Francisco, and on Sunday November 5 at 7 PM at The 222 in Healdsburg. For tickets to the San Francisco concert please go to https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/voltisf/6486/event/1348028. For tickets to the Healdsburg concert please go to https://the222.org/volti/
St. Paul's Episcopal Church114 Montecito Avenue
Oakland, California 94610
United States
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