A concert of music the Laurentian Singers presented on tour in San Francisco March 12 -18. Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Gjielo, Vaughan Williams, Forrest, with Carole King, Dolly Parton, and Billy Joel.
Back from their successful spring break tour to San Francisco, their first tour in 3 years, the Laurentian Singers present their Home Concert. The program features a variety of classical and popular repertoire.
The concert opens with Mozart's Regina Coeli, K.276, featuring a quartet of Singers as soloists: Madeline Clarke, Grace Brouillette, Tyler Karasinski, and Rowan Travis. The Singers performed Beethoven's Elegischer Gesang, op.118, and contemporary composer Ola Gjielo's Sacred Heart with the Alexander String Quartet in San Francisco but will be joined by accompanist Barbara Philips-Farley on the piano here. Ralph Vaughan Williams moving motet Valiant-for-truth (text from John Bunyan's A Pilgrim's Progress) rounds out the first set. Two Renaissance English madrigals – Sing we and chant it by Thomas Morley and John Benet's Weep, o mine eyes – will be heard next.
Songs by two iconic women songwriters – Carole King and Dolly Parton – will feature several Laurentians as soloists. King's I Feel the Earth Move will be followed by You've Got a Friend featuring Nick Tiedemann and Kyla Wilson as soloists. Keara Conolly will sing Parton's Jolene, and "Light of a Clear Blue Morning" will feature Sarah Weaver. The program will close with a set entitled Songs of Hope – Lullabye by Billy Joel, Good Night, Dear Heart by Dan Forrest, You Are the New Day by John David, and This is my song(Finlandia) by Jean Sibelius.
The event is free, open to the public, and in-person, with live streaming.