Name: Voices of the World
Start: 2019-06-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-06-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts

Organization

Admin

Kindred Spirits Orchestra

Conductor

Chan Wing Wah

Kemuel Wong

Music Director

Kristian Alexander

Orchestra

Others

Hong Kong Oratorio Society

Vancouver Oratorio Society

Mezzo-soprano

Stephanie DeCiantis

Tenor

Ryan Downey

Singer

Mezzo-Soprano

Voices of the World

Richmond Hill

Canada

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts

Public

Fanfare for the Common Man

Symphony No. 1 in E major, op. 26

Symphony No. 9

Matias Vergara Moyano

Approved

Voices of the World

Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts

In an exclusive concert to cap off the season, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra is united with the voices of the Hong Kong Oratorio Society and the Vancouver Oratorio Society. Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s first foray in the world of symphonic writing was ambitious to say the least. His six-movement Symphony No. 1 is a lush and dramatic work, which begins with an atmospheric prelude and concludes with a glorious epilogue. The finale is one of the few compositions Scriabin wrote that highlights the human voice. Featuring soloists and a chorus, the composer himself penned the poetic prose which praises the significance and power of Art: “O wonderful image of the divine, harmony’s pure Art!  To you we gladly bring  praise of that rapturous feeling.  You are life’s bright hope,  you are celebration, you are respite,  like a gift you bring to the people  your enchanted visions”. Expressly written for this very concert, celebrated Chinese composer Chan Wing-Wah bestows Kindred Spirits Orchestra the honour of the world première of his Symphony No. 9 for soloists, choir and orchestra, a large-scale, two-movement piece set on poetic texts in Chinese and English languages.

Kristian Alexander | music director
Chan Wing-Wah | conductor
Kemuel Wong | conductor
Stephanie deCiantis | mezzo-soprano
Ryan Downey | tenor

HONG KONG ORATORIO SOCIETY
VANCOUVER ORATORIO SOCIETY

Michael Berec | host

7:15 p.m.
Prélude (pre-concert recital)
7:30 p.m.
Pre-concert talk in the foyer of Richmond Hill Centre
Intermission discussion with Michael Berec and Chan Wing-Wah

Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Scriabin, Symphony No. 1, Op. 26
Chan Wing-Wah, Symphony No. 9 (world première)

English

Voices of the World by Copland, Scriabin, Chan Wing Wah, From (2019/2019), Conductor Chan Wing Wah, Kemuel Wong, Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, Richmond Hill, Canada

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