Da Camera 2007 - 2008 Season
Songs of the Sea
When : Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Where : First Baptist Church (10031 - 109 Street,
Edmonton, Alberta)
Da Camera Singers explores choral music inspired by the forces
of the sea.
Featured works include Sumsion's powerful setting of Psalm 107,
"They that
go down to the sea in ships," juxtaposed with the calm waters
depicted in
settings of Javier Busto's "Ave Maris Stella" and Palestrina's
"Sicut
Cervus." Also featured on this program will be Jaakko Mäntyjärvi's
"Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae," a moving tribute to
those who lost their
lives when the Scandinavian ferry Estonia sank in 1994.
DIXIT!
When : Sunday, February 17, at 3:00 pm
Where : Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209 -
123 Street
Da Camera's signature concert for the 2007-2008 season will
feature the dramatic psalm setting "Dixit Dominus" by
Handel.
Joining Da Camera Singers for this concert will be five of
Alberta's finest soloists. Also on the program will be a performance
of Bach's Cantata no. 4 "Christ Lag in Todesbanden." Both
of
these works will be accompanied by the Alberta Baroque
Ensemble, in the beautiful setting of Robertson-Wesley United
Church.
Poetry in Music
When : Saturday, May 10th 2008
Where : First Baptist Church (10031 - 109 Street,
Edmonton, Alberta)
Our final concert of the season reflects on musical settings
of poetry, including those
penned by Shakespeare, Henry Vaughn, Rainer Maria Rilke and other
treasured and
popular poets. Featured works include Hindemith's "Six Chansons,"
Vaughn Williams' "Shakespeare Songs," and Hubert Parry's
"Songs of Farewell."