Concert Categories: Jane Ramseyer-Miller

#121 “Currents”

Concert first performed on November 9, 2019.

Symphonic hymns and airs resound with nature imagery in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm, and Sibelius’ Finlandia. MPO and One Voice Mixed Chorus celebrate contemporary composers with local history in works by Dessa and Jocelyn Hagen, Mari Ésabel Valverde, and Lee Hoiby.

Conducted by Brian Dowdy

Works Performed

  • Antonin Dvořák, Nature’s Realm
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Op. 63
  • Jean Sibelius, Finlandia
  • Mari Esabel Valverde, Cloths of Heaven with soloist One Voice Mixed Chorus
  • Dessa/Jocelyn Hagen, Controlled Burn with soloist One Voice Mixed Chorus
  • Lee Hoiby, Hymn to the New Age with soloist One Voice Mixed Chorus

Dates Performed

  • November 9, 2019

#71 Many Lives, One Song: Hope for a World Beyond AIDS

Concert first performed on December 5, 2008.

Conducted by Jane Ramseyer Miller and Joseph Schlefke

Works Performed

  • Beethoven, Ludwig, “Allegretto” from Symphony #7 in A Major
  • Corigliano, John, Voyage (1978) with soloist Hamsa Isels, flute
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, “Verleih uns Frieden (Da nobis pacem)”
  • Brahms, Johannes, Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungren from with One Voice Mixed Chorus
  • Gable, Christopher, By the Fireside – World Premiere, with One Voice Mixed Chorus
  • Vaughan Williams, “Toward the Unknown Region” with One Voice Mixed Chorus
  • Walker, Gwyneth, “How Can I Keep from Singing?” with One Voice Mixed Chorus

Dates Performed

  • December 5, 2008