C.D. Singers Concert March 14, 2010

Daniel Durand and the C. D. Singers invite you to attend their next concert, to be held Sunday evening, March 14th, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Phoenix. As always, a professional chamber orchestra will accompany the group.The featured music for this concert includes:

Seven Part Songs for Female Voices and Strings by Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Two Choruses for Male Voices by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Cantata 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden by J. S. Bach (1684-1750)

Ticket Prices: $20 General Admission, $15.00 Students and Seniors
Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance from any choral member.

About the music:
Set to the words of English poet laureate Robert Bridges, Holst's Seven Part Songs for Female Voices were first performed in 1927 at the poet's home. Corie Stanton Rood of the All Music Guide calls the songs "eerily beautiful and hauntingly ethereal" and "showing acute sensitivity to the mood of the text."
The men of C. D. Singers will perform two choruses by Giuseppe Verdi. Inno popolare "Suono la tromba" (Popular hymn: Sound the trumpet) was written in 1848 for the revolution of that year, though Verdi was living in Paris at the time. The date of composition for "La Vergine degli angeli" (The Virgin of the Angels) is unknown.
Bach's Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden," is one of the great composer's best-known church cantatas. Written for Easter, probably in 1707, this cantata is thought by some to have been an audition piece for Bach's new post in Mühlhausen. Its cantus firmus is a chorale of the same name by Martin Luther, which itself was based on the Catholic chant "Victimae paschali laudes."

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