Cleveland Chamber Choir: The Personal Muse

For our May concerts, The Personal Muse, the Cleveland Chamber Choir is excited to pair up with the Cleveland Composers Guild to feature music by Cleveland composers: William Rayer (My Cell Phone), Scott Michal (“Hope” is the thing with feathers), Jennifer Conner (Nation’s Prayer: Requiem/Dies irae), Jeffrey Quick (Emendemus in Melius), Dawn Sonntag (The Road Not Taken), and Frank Wiley (Laudate Dominum). The concert will also feature Autum Reflections by Oberlin College & Conservatory student Natsumi Osborn, who won the CCG collegiate composers contest.

Additionally, the Choir will perform music by women from the USA and England. Audience regulars will remember the wonderful music of Great Britain’s Cecilia McDowall from past performances. Central to the program is her Night Flight, a three-movement work for cello solo and choir in recognition of the American aviatrix Harriet Quimby, the first woman to fly across the English Channel in 1912. Britain’s Judith Bingham was inspired by the harmonies of Charles Villiers Stanford’s Bluebird when she composed The Drowned Lovers, written for mezzo soprano soloist and eight-part choir. Music inspired by the American spiritual and shape-note traditions by Rosephanye Powell, Undine Smith Moore, and Abbie Betinis close out the program. The collective power of this amazing music sung by the world-class voices of the Cleveland Chamber Choir is not to be missed!

The Cleveland Chamber Choir: More than Music!