SYMPHONY SAN JOSE CHORALE
Circlesong
Artists
Elena Sharkova, conductor
Cantabile Youth Singers
Symphony San Jose Chorale
Program
Bob Chilcott
Bob Chilcott
A Little Jazz Mass
Circlesong
Circlesong
A work filled with ambition, Bob Chilcott's Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Based on poetry from the Chinook, Comanche, Dakota, Eskimo, Iroquois, Kwakiutl, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pueblo, Seminole, Sioux, and Yaqui traditions, the thirteen movements, in seven parts, mark the different stages of life, from birth and childhood to adulthood, middle age, and death. With energetic percussion accompaniment, climactic moments for tutti choir, tender unaccompanied passages and vocal solos, Circlesong is a work of impressive drama, variety, and depth.
The program opens with Chilcott's A Little Jazz Mass — a highly original setting of the Latin Missa brevis in which the various movements embrace a variety of jazz styles.
