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Organization: Santa Clarita Master Chorale
Date: February 21, 2009
Let Us Sing Away Your Troubles
Join the Santa Clarita Master Chorale for "Saints and Scoundrels"
The Santa Clarita Master Chorale is offering up a world of music at 3:30 p.m. on March 22, 2009, and the repertoire will run the emotional gamut — from reverence to revenge and romance!
Don't let the Latin fool you: you've been listening to Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" for a while now, in movies and commercials and on television. The opening movement, "O Fortuna," has been a soundtrack favorite for decades, debuting in 1937. The Munich-born composer was adept at creating spectacle, and that's exactly what you'll get with this work. Orff took medieval Latin poems about the woes and joys of the age and set them to melodies that are very easy on the ear. The sung poems cover the anguish of loves lost, the joy of spring returning, along with drinking, eating gambling and lust. Come see if you can remember where you first heard these songs.
It was not all cakes and roses for Austrian-born Joseph Haydn. While the composer is best known for his long-running employment at the Esterhazy court, his early life was anything but posh. His parents were so poor that Joseph often went hungry. At one time he shared a garret room with his friend's family while working as a street musician and part-time valet. His "Te Deum," a hymn to God, was written late in his life, and is true to its C-major roots, joyous and straightforward.
The second "Te Deum" in this concert comes from the Chorale's artistic director, Bakersfield-born Allan Petker. It was commissioned by the River City Chorale in Sacramento in 2001 for that choir's 25th anniversary. Petker's four movements are, by turns, tender and exuberant, and often propelled forward by insistent rhythms that just beg you to come along for the ride.
Wherever the fates may find you this season, come for an evening of music where the good, the bad and the not-so-pretty will be claimed and celebrated. Life happens, but so does music, and you're invited to share it all with us.
Petker will give a pre-concert lecture at 2:30 p.m.
The Chorale's performance home is the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons (COC), 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91355. For ticket information, visit www.scmasterchorale.org, email info@scmasterchorale.org or call (661) 254-8886.
