Symphonic Chorus Concert

LOVE SONGS FROM DISTANT LANDS

Jim Sparks leads the Boston University Symphonic Chorus in a concert featuring love songs from distant lands. The concert opens with The Ground, from Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass, a piece conveying peace and grounded strength, and follows with Brahms’ set of light and lively Liebeslieder Waltzes and Alfén’s Uti Vår Hage (In our Garden), both settings of romance (and heartache!) The transcendence nature of love is captured in Runestad’s poignant Goodnight My Love, and following, Graduate conductor, Peter Hampton, directs the chorus through Barber’s soulful Sure on this Shining Night and Schumann’s Ziguenerleben (A Gypsy’s Life!).

The concert also features themes of love and loss in both Sējān’s rousing and proud Vindo (Latvia), and Verdi’s stirring Va Pensiero from his opera Nabucco, a portrayal of the loss of homeland and forced exile. Completing this fall performance is Tchaka, a highly rhythmic and dynamic portrayal of cultural co-existence by Haitian-born composer, Sydney Guillaume. Listeners can easily connect to these themes of romantic love, love of home, displacement, and the power of human resilience.

This event is free and open to the public.

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