Afternoon Delight
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Daylight Savings Time makes the early hour of Evening Music seem like afternoon— a good time to hear that Debussy favorite, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
Jacqueline Du Pre was famous for her interpretation of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, which she plays for us this evening with her (then) husband, Daniel Barenboim, conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.
After our Thursday-evening film music section, we bring you “De Angelis” by Christos Hatzis, a work commissioned by the Toronto Chamber Choir, with the assistance of the Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils. Hatzis tells us that “De Angelis” was inspired by an antiphon by Hildegard of Bingen, and that the entire Hildegard setting is actually incorporated within his work, as his own music departs and returns to Hildegard’s. Echoes, fragments, refractions all contrive to capture in sound the mystical experience of Light. The Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Chamber Singers, and various soloists are conducted by the inspired baton of Lydia Adams.
Jacqueline Du Pre was famous for her interpretation of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, which she plays for us this evening with her (then) husband, Daniel Barenboim, conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.
After our Thursday-evening film music section, we bring you “De Angelis” by Christos Hatzis, a work commissioned by the Toronto Chamber Choir, with the assistance of the Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils. Hatzis tells us that “De Angelis” was inspired by an antiphon by Hildegard of Bingen, and that the entire Hildegard setting is actually incorporated within his work, as his own music departs and returns to Hildegard’s. Echoes, fragments, refractions all contrive to capture in sound the mystical experience of Light. The Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Chamber Singers, and various soloists are conducted by the inspired baton of Lydia Adams.
