CHIAROSCURA

Meditating on the cusp of light and darkness

In painting, CHIAROSCURA refers to the contrast between light and darkness, and how shadows intensify luminosity. The Esoterics will portray the drama of CHIAROSCURA in spectacular and profound works from the choral repertoire – by the master composers Strauss, Schnittke, and Joubert. Each of these pieces sets verses from a prayer, litany, or meditation (by the likes of Friedrich Rückert and St Augustine), and reflects how various forms of light and dark -- good and evil, known and unknown, truth and falsehood -- are at once highly contrasting and inextricably interdependent. The resulting concert will be both moving and dramatic, bringing choral fireworks to the conclusion of The Esoterics’ sixteenth season.

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