Chichester Psalms / Misa Criolla at Old St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh on Saturday 25th November 2023

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Chichester Psalms / Misa Criolla

Add to my Calendar 25-11-2023 19:30 25-11-2023 21:30 36 Chichester Psalms / Misa Criolla Ramirez/Bernstein blurb   Two iconic choral works: one universal message. Ariel Ramírez’s fusion of Argentine folk idioms with the Latin mass and Leonard Bernstein’s forthright Hebrew setting of the psalms bring vigour and flavour to sacred choral music. Misa Criolla and Chichester Psalms were composed in the mid-1960s, as societies and institutions embraced the new and the challenging.  Today, their energy and unique musical accents ring as loudly as ever, transmitting an overwhelming sense of the human desire for spiritual fulfilment. The versatile and hugely popular Scottish tenor Jamie MacDougall joins The Scottish Chamber Choir and an ensemble of piano, guitar and Argentinian percussion to perform Misa Criolla Chichester Psalms will be performed in Bernstein’s compelling arrangement for organ, harp and percussion. The concert will also feature two unaccompanied pieces: Roxanna Panufnik’s Love Endureth is inspired by ‘old Hebrew psalms’ and uses fragments of Spanish Sephardic chants, while Hyo-won Woo’s Gloria blends Korean musical elements with western choral techniques to create an exciting cross-cultural soundworld. We hope you will join us for a concert of music which embraces the visceral and the serene, the joyful and the hopeful.         Old St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Old St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church
39 Jeffrey Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1DH
Scotland

Saturday 25th November 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Ariel Ramírez – Misa Criolla

Performers

Jamie MacDougall – tenor

Scottish Chamber Choir

Programme Note

Ramirez/Bernstein blurb

Two iconic choral works: one universal message.

Ariel Ramírez’s fusion of Argentine folk idioms with the Latin mass and Leonard Bernstein’s forthright Hebrew setting of the psalms bring vigour and flavour to sacred choral music.

Misa Criolla and Chichester Psalms were composed in the mid-1960s, as societies and institutions embraced the new and the challenging. Today, their energy and unique musical accents ring as loudly as ever, transmitting an overwhelming sense of the human desire for spiritual fulfilment.

The versatile and hugely popular Scottish tenor Jamie MacDougall joins The Scottish Chamber Choir and an ensemble of piano, guitar and Argentinian percussion to perform Misa Criolla

Chichester Psalms will be performed in Bernstein’s compelling arrangement for organ, harp and percussion.

The concert will also feature two unaccompanied pieces: Roxanna Panufnik’s Love Endureth is inspired by ‘old Hebrew psalms’ and uses fragments of Spanish Sephardic chants, while Hyo-won Woo’s Gloria blends Korean musical elements with western choral techniques to create an exciting cross-cultural soundworld.

We hope you will join us for a concert of music which embraces the visceral and the serene, the joyful and the hopeful.

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