The Seattle Choral Company (SCC) has announced its 2023-2024 season, during which the mid-season concert titled “Eternal Light” will bring the audience a unique and authentic experience of the choral masterworks.
Founded and led by Artistic Director Freddie Coleman, the Seattle Choral Company has become one of Seattle’s most accomplished and respected choral organizations. The SCC recorded albums have received extensive exposure on the radio and they have recorded soundtracks for Public Television (Death: the Trip of a Lifetime), and NBC (Crime and Punishment), and their recordings have been used in dozens of motion picture movie trailers.
The SCC mid-season concert in March 2024 will bring back to the repertory a true masterpiece of the 20th century – Morten Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna.” The SCC presented the first Seattle performance of this beloved contemporary work in May of 2000, with the composer (a Washington native) in attendance. About the performance, Seattle Times music critic Melinda Bargreen wrote, “The audience was already on its feet, with a standing ovation for the Seattle Choral Company’s first Seattle performance of Morten Lauridsen’s ‘Lux Aeterna’.”
Since its world premiere in 1997, Lauridsen’s luminous “Lux Aeterna” has made a lasting international impact. Lauridsen’s music remains a powerful magnet for choral ensembles as well as music lovers around the world.
This concert will also feature two choral works from the 18th and 19th centuries: “Misericordias Domini, K. 222,” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and the “Mass No. 2 in G Major,” by Franz Schubert. Both of these works, written when the composers were quite young, express youthful energy and early genius. Mozart penned his “Misericordias Domine” when he was 19 years old, and Schubert composed his “Mass in G Major” at the age of 18.
Joining the Seattle Choral Company for the performance of Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G Major” will a trio of accomplished Seattle soloists: Ellaina Lewis, soprano; Martin Bakari, tenor; and Darrell Jordan, baritone. The concert is scheduled on Saturday, March 16th, 2024 at 8 pm in Seattle’s Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral.
To purchase series or single tickets to the Seattle Choral Company concerts, please visit www.seattlechoralcompany.org or call (206) 363-1100.
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Organization: Seattle Choral Company
Contact Person: Freddie Coleman
Website: https://www.seattlechoralcompany.org/
Email: scc@seattlechoralcompany.org
Address: 302 N 78th Street
City: Seattle
State: Washington
Country: United States
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