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Vox Satanae - Episode 460 - Week of December 09, 2019

Vox Satanae – Episode 460 – Week of December 09, 2019

Vox Satanae – Episode 460 – 150 Minutes – Week of December 09, 2019

This week we hear anonymous works and works by William Mundy, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Carl Heinrich Graun, Healey Willan, Elizabeth Poston, Sir John Tavener, Jean Guillou, and James Whitbourn.

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Vox Satanae - Episode #371

Vox Satanae – Episode #371

Vox Satanae – Episode 371 – 197 Minutes – Week of 04 December 2017

This week we hear anonymous and traditional works as well as works by Martin Luther, Michael Praetorius, John Sheppard, Orlando Gibbons, Georg Philipp Telemann, Michel Corrette, Camille Saint-Saëns, and James Whitbourn with performances by The Benedictine Monks of Norcia, Chanticleer, The Salisbury Cathedral Boy Choristers, The…

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Annelies: A Choral Setting of the Diary of Anne Frank

Paul Lakeland, Ph.D., Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J. Chair in Catholic Studies & Professor of Religious Studies

Everyone has heard of Anne Frank, and many of us know at least a little about this brave young Dutch Jew who lived in hiding in Amsterdam for almost two years before being captured by the Nazis. Sent first with her sister Margot to Auschwitz in 1944, she later died in the concentration camp at Bergen Belsen, probably of typhus.

What we know of Anne Frank beyond these few brief facts is drawn from the pages of her diary, where the life and something of the soul of this happy and lovable child comes through so clearly, where we see something of who she was and mourn for her senseless death in the Holocaust, like that of countless others. “The Diary of a Young Girl,” her account of two years in hiding, has been translated into over 60 languages.

Many of Anne Frank’s words in that diary form the libretto of Annelies, a choral setting with small orchestra and soprano solo. Annelies was the brainchild of Melanie Challenger, who constructed the libretto, and the British composer James Whitbourn. As Whitbourn explains it, the idea came originally from Melanie Challenger after she had been working for a time on a music project with children from what was then war-torn Bosnia. At times, Whitbourn writes, “it felt as though I were putting together the music for the family’s memorial service.” “It was to be a commemorative work,” he adds, “not only for Anne Frank, but for those by whose side she lived, those she watched with penetrating eyes, and those voiceless millions who shared her fate.” The first performance of three movements of the piece took place at the United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Memorial in the presence of Queen Elizabeth, whose picture Anne Frank had pinned to the wall of her little attic room, followed by the world première of the full composition in London. The U.S. première took place in Princeton, New Jersey, where James Jordan conducted the Westminster Choir College’s Williamson Voices, and they are featured along with Arianna Zukerman on the Naxos recording.

Ms. Zukerman will sing the solo role in this Sunday’s Fairfield County première in the Kelley Theater, Quick Center for the Arts, at 3 p.m. Sponsored by the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and the Center for Catholic Studies, this 75 minute piece will be performed by the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut under the baton of Dr. Carole Ann Maxwell.

[Complimentary tickets for this performance are available from the Quick Center box office.]

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Hear Lewisham Choral Society perform stunning works, some new or unfamiliar and some less so.

On Saturday 5th July at Chelsea's Cadogan Hall, Lewisham Choral Society will perform work by three British composers: James Whitbourn's haunting 'Luminosity'; Ralph Vaughan Williams 'In Windsor Forest' and 'Serenade to Music' and finally, 'Four Piano Solos' by one of Britain's few female composers, Cecilia McDowall who has been described as having 'a communicative gift ... rare in modern music'

Lewisham Choral Society is one of London's most popular choirs. Lewisham Choral Society performed in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games. Performances at The Royal Festival Hall and Cadogan Hall in London and further afield in Paris at Saint Louis en L’Ile have been rapturously received.

Sat 5 July, Cadogan Hall, 7.30pm - BOOK

How and why, you might ask, does a choir from a South London suburb attain such heights? The dedication and application of the choir's 150 plus diverse membership aside, Lewisham Choral Society's success is down to two key factors: Musical Director Dan Ludford-Thomas and the rich repertoire of works old and new which the choir diligently rehearses and regularly performs.

Musical Director, Dan Ludford-Thomas, was a notable tenor. Dan is in demand as a choral animateur, directing choral workshops and projects in the UK and internationally. He is currently Head of Singing at Dulwich College and a singing teacher at Eton College. He is the Musical Director of Concordia Chamber Choir, the Director of Music of Lewisham Choral Society and the Associate Conductor of the Hackney Singers. Dan has also worked on the BBC's 'Sing While You Work'. The breadth of experience Dan Ludford-Thomas brings to the choir is matched by the dedication of the choir's membership to performing the vast repertoire he chooses for them. Of working with Lewisham Choral Society, Dan says:

“It is a privilege … their commitment and enthusiasm not only in singing but in all the background organisation that goes on is truly inspiring.”

The atmospheric and lyrical 'Luminosity' combines viola, organ, the Indian stringed tanpura and chorus. The seven-movement work takes the listener through the ‘transcendent beauty of creation’, using all the forces to create moments of true stillness and overwhelming intensity.

Hear it below, better still, come and hear it live:

The five colourful movements of Vaughan Williams’ 'In Windsor Forest' are lively and lyrical, while the sheer melodic beauty of his 'Serenade to Music' reduced Rachmaninoff to tears.

Sat 5 July, Cadogan Hall, 7.30pm - BOOK