Concerts & Events: Evening Concerts
2007 VISI Song: The Audible Soul
VISI Evening Song Series
“VISIonary Fusions: Ideas, Poetry, Song” - 8 pm
A dynamic new concert series combining talks by world-class thinkers and song performances by world-class musicians.
Sunday June 17 | CANADA HERE AND NOW
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Monday June 18 | OUR LASTING WORLD
Join us for an evening of songs and ideas that examines the socio-cultural legacies we have created, and our collective role in shaping the planet’s future. Includes Canadian premiere of The Space Between, music by Scott Gendel, texts by Wendell Berry.
VISI Faculty: Alison d’Amato, Tyler Duncan, Martha Guth, Laura
Loewen, Lynne McMurtry, Erika Switzer
Guest Artist: Mel Braun
Guest Speakers: Dr. Erica Frank, Paris Marshall
Smith, Doug Swanston, Jennifer Swanston
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Tuesday June 19 | HOW FAIR HER CONVERSATION: Words by Women Poets
Good songs often come from great poetry. This concert showcases songs drawn from some of history’s most eloquent and passionate female poets, including Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath.
VISI Faculty: Margo Garrett, Martha Guth, Laura Loewen, Phoebe
MacRae, Lynne McMurtry, Erika Switzer
Guest Artist: A.K. Coope (clarinet)
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Wednesday June 20 | The RED, RED HEART: Lives of Passionate Wives
Two of North America’s most celebrated recitalists team up for the first time, performing a vibrant and varied program of Canadian and American song repertoire. Includes John Greer’s The Red, Red Heart, a cycle on poems of Marianne Bindig written expressly for Tracy Dahl, and Libby Larsen’s powerful cycle Try Me, Good King, songs from the final words of Henry VIII’s wives.
VISI Faculty: Tracy Dahl and Margo Garrett
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Thursday June 21 | I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF: A VISI Cabaret
Enter the sultry and sardonic world of the cabaret. Sit back and smile as VISI performers entertain you with songs of Kurt Weill, William Bolcom, Marc Blitzstein, and Noel Coward.
VISI Faculty: Margo Garrett and Alison d’Amato, Terence Dawson, Tyler Duncan, Martha Guth, Nancy Hermiston, Laura Loewen, Phoebe MacRae, Lynne McMurtry, Erika Switzer
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Friday June 22 | MAKE MUSIC SWEET: An English Songbook
Join two of the world’s greatest interpreters of English song for a journey through Great Britain’s musical and literary history! Gerald Finzi’s beautiful cycle Earth and Air and Rain, on the poetry of Thomas Hardy, concludes a delightful collection of English songs from the 19th and 20th centuries.
VISI Faculty: Stephen Varcoe and Graham Johnson
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Sunday June 24 | LET THE FLORID MUSIC PRAISE: Songs of Britain
Exult in Britain’s exciting legacy of poets and composers! This spirited program includes Auden settings by Benjamin Britten, Shakespeare settings by Gerald Finzi, Yeats settings by Rebecca Clarke, and a rare performance of Michael Tippett’s cantata for tenor and piano, Boyhood’s End.
VISI Faculty: Graham Johnson and Benjamin Butterfield, Alison d’Amato, Tyler Duncan, Martha Guth, Laura Loewen, Lambroula Maria Pappas
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Monday June 25 | THE ECSTATIC PATH: Songs of Spirituality
Explore diverse visions of faith and spirituality in songs by British, Canadian, and American composers. Includes John Harbison’s haunting Mirabai Songs and Godfrey Ridout’s potent settings of John Donne’s Cantiones Mysticae.
VISI Faculty: Alan Corbishley, Alison d’Amato, Terence Dawson,
Tyler Duncan, Martha Guth, Laura Loewen, Phoebe MacRae, Lambroula Maria
Pappas,
Erika Switzer
Guests Artist: Blaine Hendsbee and Darren Wren (guitar)
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Tuesday June 26 | BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Words, Charms and Canticles
Bask in the thrills and intimacies of Britten’s unique compositions. This wonderful program includes Winter Words, A Charm of Lullabies, and Canticle II, Britten’s enthralling duet setting of the story of Abraham and Isaac.
VISI Faculty: Graham Johnson and Benjamin Butterfield, Susan Platts
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