Northern Lights Community Project
This video montage is a collaboration between Festival Choir and the Art Club at Oakwood Village University Woods in Madison, Wisconsin, under Jennifer Bethel’s leadership. Images in this montage come from artworks created by artists at Oakwood Village, Festival Choir members and friends of the choir as they listened to Festival Choir’s Fall 2017 recording of Ola Gjeilo’s “Northern Lights” under Sergei Pavlov’s direction. Thanks to all the artists and singers involved in using art to make community in a time of isolation!
Saturday November 4, 2017 – 7:30 PMFirst Unitarian Society (Google Maps)
900 University Bay Dr, Madison WI 53705
The Festival Choir of Madison presents ‘Northern Lights,’ a concert of contemporary Norwegian and Baltic Choral music, inspired by the phenomena of Aurora Borealis. Our voices will be supported by leading Madison-based musicians in this magical journey through the mystical soundscapes of the North.
Trond Kverno (Norway) – Ave Maris Stella
Ola Gjeilo (Norway/US) – Northern Lights
Eriks Esenvalds (Latvia) – Northern Lights
Ola Gjeilo (Norway) – Dark Night of the Soul
Lars Jansson (Sweden) – Salve Regina
Peteris Vasks (Latvia) – Mother Sun
Douglas Hill (Wisconsin, US) – “A different Drummer” Homage a Thoreau
Video: Festival Choir of Madison sings “Salve Regina” by Lars Jansson (b.1951), arr. Gunnar Eriksson
Sergei Pavlov, Conductor
Ted Reinke, Piano
James McKenzie, Percussion
