KCS is delighted to be joined by the acclaimed Skyros Quartet, guitarist Peter Caruso, saxophonist Evan Smith, and pianist Cori Belle for this performance.įor more information and to purchase tickets, visit The Bastyr University Chapel is located at 14500 Juanita Drive in Kenmore. The choral music of Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo (pronounced yay-loh) is gaining international acclaim and is widely performed and commissioned by prominent high school, university, and professional choirs. Next is “Across the Vast Eternal Sky,” another lovely Gjeilo-Silvestri collaboration.įollowing the “Glory” premier, tenor sax joins with piano and choir for the song, “Evening Prayer,” a beautiful closing benediction to an evening of wonderful music. The guitar joins choir, string quartet, and piano for “The Lake Isle,” a gentle, melodic song based on a poem by William Butler Yeats.
The second half of the program introduces two of Gjeilo’s favorite instruments not often found in choral accompaniments, acoustic guitar and tenor saxophone. “In addition, the choir voices are often doubled by the strings to achieve an intensely rich and warm sound,” Gregg said. In commenting about them, Gjeilo says that he wanted to make the choir and piano equal “as if in a dialogue.” The first part of the program concludes with “Dark Night of the Soul” and its sequel, “Luminous Night of the Soul.” Although often performed as separate pieces, they were conceived by Gjeilo to be two movements of the same work and will be performed as such by KCS.
Next comes “The Ground,” the melodious, and inspiring culmination to Sunrise Mass. “The choir is divided into as many as sixteen vocal parts in places,” Gregg said, “with voices overlapping in dissonance before resolving into new chords.” The mood changes significantly in “The Spheres,” from Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass, which gives the audience and performers a sense of floating in space surrounded by stars and planets.
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