Events – SRSC Holiday Potpourri

A Holiday Potpourri

Friday, November 22, 2019, 7:30 pm
Santa Rosa Bible Church
4575 Badger Road, Santa Rosa

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Join Us For Holiday Choral Magic – The fabulous Santa Rosa Symphonic Chorus, celebrating 85 years of singing, presents stunning chorus music from Rutter, Lauridsen, Whitacre, Bach, Saint-Saëns, and more!

This annual concert is certain to be one of our best. The venue is the fantastic-sounding stage at the Santa Rosa Bible Church. You’re sure to enjoy it.

Robert Hazelrigg, Director of SRSC, has outdone himself in selecting music for this concert! Some examples:

Camille Saint-Saëns – Christmas Oratorio (1858), including accompaniment and solos. Words in Latin! Saint-Saëns wrote the oratorio in less than a fortnight, completing it ten days before its premiere on Christmas 1858. The vocal score of this oratorio was prepared later by the composer and organist Eugene Gigout, a colleague of Saint-Saëns. (From Wikipedia.) The lyrics are taken from Bible chapters by John, Isaiah, Lamentations, and the Psalms, reflect upon the meaning and significance of the traditional Christmas story.

Morton Lauridsen – Sure On This Shining Night (1968). From Lauridsen himself: “I set the verse very much like a song from the American musical theater stage and it should be sung in that manner.” Lauridsen, 76, who worked as a Forest Service firefighter and lookout, was name “American Choral Master” for is works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth.

Eric Whitacre – Lux Aurumque (1999), “I waited patiently for the tight harmonies to shimmer and glow.” English for this name is “Light and Gold”. Whitacre’s music has been described as “softly spoken, deeply harmonic and tuneful, but making use of unusual rhythms and sound balancing to create highly textured music”. Whitacre, 49, was appointed as Los Angeles Master Chorale’s first artist-in-residence at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Whitacre has written for the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, among others. 

J. S. Bach – Christmas Oratorio.

David N. Childs – O magnum mysterium.