Spring 2024

Over the centuries, choral music has often been about the world of nature. In that spirit, Oriana offers a concert of choral works by Charles Villiers Stanford, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Adolphus Hailstork, Josiah Alwood, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Laura Mvula, Karen Marrolli, Henry Purcell, and George Frideric Handel. Each of these, in one way or another, is a song about the natural world.

Program

C.V. Stanford (1852-1924) – The blue bird

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)

Im Wald
Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald
Hörst du nicht die Bäume rauschen

Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) – Nocturne

Josiah Alwood (1828-1909),
arr Shawn Kirchner (b. 1970) – Unclouded Day

Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) – Northern Lights

Steven James Brown (1954-2024)
& Laura Mvula (b. 1986) – Sing to the Moon

Karen Marrolli (b. 1975) – Hear My Voice

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – The rising world Jehovah crown'd from Athalia

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) – O Sing unto the Lord

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Schedule

  • CAMBRIDGE

    8pm Saturday, March 16, 2024
    University Lutheran Church
    66 Winthrop Street
    Cambridge, MA

  • Arlington

    8pm Friday, March 22, 2024
    Park Avenue Church, UCC
    50 Paul Revere Road
    Arlington, MA

  • Boston

    5pm Sunday, March 24, 2024
    First Lutheran Church of Boston
    299 Berkeley Street
    Boston, MA

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