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Join The Esoterics for CARTER & MESSIÆN Centennial 
From Carter's works, The Esoterics will perform four mid-century neo-classic choral pieces: two settings of poems by Emily Dickinson -- her crystalline Heart not so heavy as mine and her vigorous Musicians wrestle everywhere as well as two settings of poems by Robert Herrick - his tender ode To music as well as his raucous Harvest home. A recent addition to the repertoire will be Carter's newest choral work, Mad regales which was completed last year and is the first a cappella work Carter has composed in over 60 years. From Messiæn's choral oeuvre, The Esoterics will perform his sole sacred choral work, the transcendent motet O sacrum convivium, as well as his legendarily virtuosic work, Cinq rechants. Scored for twelve solo voices, Cinq rechants is a remarkable undertaking for The Esoterics because of its technical difficulty. For this mysterious work, based on the tale of Tristan and Isolde, Messiæn composed his own poetry that combines surrealistic French imagery with nonsense syllables borrowed from Sanskrit and Peruvian Quechua. Please join The Esoterics to celebrate and compare the genius of these composers at the centenary of their birth. The Esoterics' CARTER & MESSIÆN Centennial performance dates and locations are as follows: Saturday • 6 December • 8 pm • Tacoma Trinity Lutheran Church • 12115 Park Ave S Sunday • 7 December • 7 pm • Lynnwood Trinity Lutheran Church • 6215 196th St SW Saturday • 13 December • 8 pm • Seattle St Joseph's Catholic Church • 732 18th Ave E Sunday • 14 December • 3 pm • West Seattle Holy Rosary Catholic Church • 4139 42nd Ave SW Tickets are $20 at the door, $18 in advance online, $15 for students, seniors, the un(der)employed, and the differently-abled. Discounts are available for groups of five or more at $12 per person. Active singers of any choral group may attend for only $10. Advance tickets are available online at www.TheEsoterics.org (through PayPal.com). The Esoterics' Season 2008 has been made possible by grants from 4 Culture, ArtsFund, Artist Trust, Classical King FM 98.1, The Horizons Foundation, Meet the Composer, Nikko Media Center, The Norcliffe Foundation, The Nesholm Family Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, The Seattle Foundation, Seattle's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and The Washington State Arts Commission. |
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