Archive for Thursday, May 15, 2008
Pacific Chorale
‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ and ‘Hora novissima’ share billing in latest program.
NEW AND OLD
Leave it to music director John Alexander, left, to line up on the same Pacific Chorale program (titled “Revelations, Revolutions”) the West Coast premiere of “Paul Revere’s Ride,” a 2005 work by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Del Tredici for amplified soprano, chorus and orchestra; and “Hora novissima (The Last Hour),” a 115-year-old oratorio by Horatio Parker (best-known as Ives’ professor at Yale) that was performed more often in pre-WWI America than Handel’s “Messiah.” “I love the idea of commissions,” Alexander says, “but we also need to preserve our history of American music. ‘Hora novissima’ is one unfairly neglected gem.” 8 p.m. Sat., Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. $20-$140. (714) 662-2345; (714) 556-2787; www.pacificchorale.org
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