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2007-08 Season Archives

April 19 & 20
Liquid Music

Saturday, April 19 - 8:00pm

Westminster Presybterian Church
2000 Oakwood Drive, Medford

Sunday, April 20 - 3:00pm

SOU Music Recital Hall, Ashland
Free Preconcert Lecture at 2:00pm

Tickets $18 - Students with ID $5

"I am in need of music that would flow over my fretful, feeling finger-tips." So begins Elizabeth Bishop's beautiful sonnet which has been so exquisitely captured in Portland composer Bryan Johanson's "Liquid Music" for choir and harp. The Southern Oregon Repertory Singers are joined by the Chamber Choir from Southern Oregon University in the concert's featured work, the haunting Mass of Swiss composer Frank Martin. Long considered one of the seminal works of a cappella choral. music, this is a rare opportunity to hear this great piece. Balancing out the program are the lush "Shakespeare Songs" of Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and the world premiere of new Hebridean Folksongs by the Repertory Singer's own Craig Kingsbury.

Program notes by Ed Wight

Proposed Repertoire:

Liquid Music (with harp) Bryan Johanson
Mass for Double Choir (with SOU Chamber Choir) Frank Martin
Four Shakespeare Songs Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Hebridean Folksongs (world premiere) Craig Kingsbury