Thursday, Dec 11, 2014
Traveling between San Francisco and San Diego January 9 – 17, 2015
The Westminster Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, will embark on a concert tour of California January 9 – 17, 2015. The ensemble will perform in six venues and visit four high schools between San Francisco and San Diego.
The program, titled “The Invention of Love,” features music that explores the question of what inspires people to create, to invent machines and to cultivate ideas that can change the world. It will include Urmas Sisask’s mystical Oremus, Eric Whitacre’s compelling Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, the revolutionary passion of Monteverdi’s Si chi’io vorrei morire, and the perfect creation that is J. S. Bach’s opening chorus from Gott der Herr ist Sonn’ und Schild, BWV 79. It also features a semi-staged scene from Philip Glass’ opera Kepler, which the Choir performed at the 2012 Spoleto Festival USA
“The works in this program explore the music of creative minds, and the struggle and rewards of invention,” says Maestro Miller, who recorded a podcast about the tour program with WWFM The Classical Network host David Osenberg. Its available on iTunes and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University website.
Music lovers interested in learning more about the Choir and the tour from the inside can follow the Westminster Choir blog, written by alto Christianna Barnard.
Download a PDF of The Invention of Love concert program.
2015 Westminster Choir Tour Schedule
January 9 7:30 p.m.
Mission Dolores Basilica
3321 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
January 10 7:30 p.m.
Cabrillo College
6500 Soquel Drive
Aptos, CA
January 11 5 p.m.
Fresno City College
Old Administration Building Auditorium
1101 East University Avenue
Fresno, CA
January 14 7:30 p.m.
Santa Monica High School
Barnum Hall Theater
600 Olympic Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA
January 16 7:30 p.m.
St. Paul’s Cathedral
2728 6th Avenue
San Diego, CA
January 17 4 p.m.
First United Methodist Church Pasadena
500 East Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
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