Kaleidoscope

Program

Viriditas is one of the central images in Hildegard von Bingen’s works: the literal green of plants, the vitality and verdure of Nature, and a metaphor for spiritual and physical health. We open our program with a Hildegard chant, followed by two modern works based upon her writings.

O nobilissima viriditas Hildegard von Bingon

Green Music Kirke Mechem

Viriditas Joan Szymko

Birds in every color of the rainbow are a popular subject for poets and composers. We start this section with a Renaissance duet, followed by Ravel’s metaphorical birds in the colors of the French flag, and end with Stanford’s own arrangement of his beloved classic.

Cantan fra rami gli auglietti vaghi Giovanni Matteo Asola

Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis Maurice Ravel, arr. Edna Yeh

The Blue Bird Charles Villiers Stanford

We celebrate the people of the world, in all of their diversity

Nigra Sum Michael Bussewitz-Quarm

Color— Caste— Denomination—Edna Yeh

The sky at night can be alive with the shimmer of northern lights, or the twinkling of stars. By day, it shifts in color from sunrise to daylight to sunset.

Stars Erik Ešenvalds

Virmalised (Northern Lights) Veljo Tormis

We Are Here to Shine! Jocelyn Hagen

“The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are also on the faces of people going by”

What a Wonderful World Bob Thiele & George Weiss, arr. Audrey Snyder