Coro Allegro
Coro Allegro is a not-for-profit classical music organization composed of members and friends of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and dedicated to the performance of significant choral works for the enjoyment of all.
Coro Allegro Announces 2010-2011 Season
On Sunday November 7, 2010, Coro Allegro will perform a program that embraces the natural world and the biblical story of Creation. Featured will be Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning, the composer’s first long-form choral composition, which premiered in 1947 and has been frequently performed ever since. In this work, a mezzo-soprano narrator and chorus employ a variety of rhythmic patterns, tempos and textures to vividly portray the seven days of Creation and to depict how “man became a living soul.” Coro will also present Ronald Perera’s Why I Wake Early, a set of songs for chorus, string quartet, and piano that traverse a glorious “day in the life” of the natural world. The New York Times called this cycle, set to poems by Provincetown poet Mary Oliver, “a substantial addition to the choral canon.” Rounding out the program is Norman Dinerstein’s Frogs, a rousing tour de force of a-capella singing.
Our Winter concert on Sunday March 6, 2011 highlights a major work by the recipient of our fourth annual Daniel Pinkham Award, Requiem by Patricia Van Ness, which Coro Allegro commmissioned and premiered in 2004. The Requiem, scored for chorus, orchestra, and baritone soloist, makes dazzling use of medieval and Renaissance musical elements and the perfect-fifth interval to create a moving tribute to Van Ness’ friend, dancer and choreographer Julie Ince Thompson. Coro Allegro is pleased to honor Patricia Van Ness with the Pinkham Award for her acclaimed choral compositions, her series of outstanding collaborations with Coro, and her work with the GLBT community. Also on the program is one of the great sacred works in the choral canon, Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria in D for chorus, orchestra, and soloists.
Our final concert of the 2010-2011 season, on Sunday May 15, will feature Jesus the Son of Man, a new composition by Boston-based Composer Kareem Roustom on texts of Lebanese-Amercican poet Khalil Gibran, who grew up in Boston's South End. The concert will also include the transportingly beautiful work for chorus and organ, Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen.
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