TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO. 4
expiate her cursed life via a life of solitary
religious contemplation, takes refuge
in a monastery. Don Carlo and Don
Alvaro are thrown together on an Italian
battlefield, and each, ignorant of his
identity, saves the other’s life. Ultimately,
Alvaro also seeks asylum as a monk in
the same monastery where, unknown
to him, Leonora has lived peacefully for
years. Carlo tracks him there, and the two
fight a duel in which Carlo is mortally
wounded. Leonora is summoned to give
aid to the dying man, and with his last
breath, Carlo kills her to avenge the family
honor. A distraught Alvaro is urged by
the Father Superior to live out his life in
service to God.
Verdi did not add the opera’s
unforgettably intense overture until he
revised the opera for a production at
Milan’s La Scala in 1869. A potpourri of
several of the opera’s finest melodies, it
opens with a sequence of implacable chords
on a unison E, establishing the E minor
tonality. Then we hear the relentlessly
VOODOO VIOLIN CONCERTO
Daniel Bernard Roumain
Born 1970 in Skokie, IL
Emmy-winner Daniel Bernard Roumain
is one of the most eclectic and multi-
faceted musicians in the U.S. today. Better
known as “DBR,” this Haitian-American
artist is an accomplished classical violinist,
educator, activist and a composer whose
music draws on many, seemingly disparate
sources: classical, jazz, rock, funk and
hip-hop.
Beginning violin lessons at age five,
DBR studied composition at Vanderbilt
University’s Blair School of Music, then
earned master’s and doctoral degrees at
the University of Michigan, where his
mentors were two very eclectic composers
in their own right, William Bolcom and
Michael Daugherty. Nevertheless, all
along the way, DBR was absorbing other
influences. In junior high, he formed his
own rock and hip-hop band in which
driving theme of destiny, which mutters
away throughout the rest of the overture.
The wistful melody for woodwinds is Don
Alvaro’s fourth-act aria after he has joined
the monastery. The beautiful soaring
theme for violins is Leonora’s Act II aria
“Madre, pietosa Vergine,” also a recurring
theme in the opera.
Instrumentation: Flute, piccolo, two oboes,
two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two
trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani,
percussion, harp and strings.
Choral Arts ON T UR!
2019-20
Astonishing Journeys
Timeless Masterpieces
ANTHONY BLAKE CLARK
Baltimore Choral Arts charts thrilling musical voyages in our 54 th season, performing choral masterpieces
from America, England, France, Hungary, Italy, and Vienna. Our tour theme also extends to our new
concert home at Shriver Hall Auditorium and a tour to England.
Music Director
AN AMERICAN SUITE: FROM BILLINGS TO BERNSTEIN MONTEVERDI VESPERS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2019 AT 3 PM | SHRIVER HALL AUDITORIUM SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020 AT 3 PM | SHRIVER HALL AUDITORIUM
Henry Balfour Gardiner
Zoltán Kodály
American Suite
William Billings
Traditional, arr. Alice Parker
Susan LaBarr
Ēriks Ešenvalds
David Conte
Anthony Blake Clark
Bono, arr. Bob Chilcott
Aaron Copland Baltimore Baroque Band, Peabody’s Baroque Orchestra,
Peabody Renaissance Ensemble, Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble,
Maryland Institute College of the Arts
In Baltimore Choral Arts’ second collaboration with MICA, their graduate students
will add multi-sensory images to this Baroque masterpiece.
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine
Leonard Bernstein
Evening Hymn
Laudes Organi
Invocation
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
Grace Before Sleep
Stars
The Composer
Higher Ground
MLK
Stomp Your Foot
Zion’s Walls
“Make our Garden Grow” from Candide
CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL ARTS
MOZART REQUIEM
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2020 AT 3 PM | SHRIVER HALL AUDITORIUM
Steven Soph, tenor and Philip Munds, horn
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major,
K. (412+514)/386b
Benjamin Britten
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31
Mozart
Requiem in D minor, K. 626
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019 AT 7:30 PM | THE BALTIMORE BASILICA
Holiday choral favorites in the historic and inspiring setting of
The Baltimore Basilica continue a 36- year tradition.
JOIN US ON TOUR! JANUARY 10-20, 2020
Baltimore Choral Arts is touring England, highlighted by a prestigious invitation to sing Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” at the City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 100 th anniversary celebration. The Chorus will also perform at venues in London and Oxford.
Notice: Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. has leased or rented facilities from the Johns Hopkins University. However, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. and any programs operated by Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. are not related to or
affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University in any way. Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc. is an entirely separate legal entity with no connection to the Johns Hopkins University aside from the temporary use of facilities for the specified program.
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