This fall, as we prepare for our concerts the weekend before Thanksgiving, we’ll introduce jubilant pieces influenced by American folk-roots, gospel, and African vocal and drumming traditions, alongside serene settings of remembrance and hope by contemporary composers also the beautiful elegy entitled “Nänie” by classical composer Johannes Brahms and inspirational works by Middlebury composers Peter Hamlin (written in memory of Grace and Steve Weber) and Sam Guarnaccia. 8 and then move to our usual location in Mead Chapel on Sept. We begin our rehearsals in Mahaney Arts Center 221 on Sept. We rehearse 7-8:30pm on Sundays and Tuesdays. This lists any discs, concerts or collections where this piece is included.Come join the Middlebury College Community Chorus as we begin our fall season - open to all who love to sing! Join students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members in our choir that numbers nearly 100 members from the greater Lake Champlain region.
The little soprano solos scattered around the piece are meant more as colorings, an obbligato, than a melodic focal point. I always recommend performing Tundra with the optional string quartet (or string ensemble) parts, but the piece was written with only choir and pianio in mind at first, so the string are more of an extra bonus, if conditions allow for it. I also had three voices on the solo soprano lines for the same reason, although I think a soloist could also speak above the choir in this tessitura. Otherwise, they easily become buried by the accompanying vocalise lines and the poem is lost. I moved singers around quite a bit to add body to the lines with text. This is a sweeping, almost atmospheric work on a poem by Charles A. There is an alternate accompaniment of string quartet or string ensemble, but I wanted what I felt would be a lighter, more transparent sound of the piano. Elektra performed it in its original form, SSAA with piano accompaniment. Tundra was commissioned by and dedicated to the ACDA Women’s R&S Commission Consortium, Debra Spurgeon, National Chair.
It is easy to feel that you are treading on sacred land, which Tony so wonderfully expresses in his text.” Conductor Notes: The area is quite barren, and intensely beautiful. It’s pretty close to where my father grew up, a ski resort town called Gjeilo, in the mountains between Oslo and Bergen.
I asked him to write a text based on the title, and some photos of a part of my native Norway that is very dear to me the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. Composer Gjeilo writes: “The lyrics for Tundra were written by Charles Anthony Silvestri, specifically for this work.
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