“A Christmas Carol” Program Notes
Dickens and A Christmas Carol The most popular English novelist of the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) created stories that still draw readers and characters whose very names conjure...
View ArticleCAE Pops Turns 10!
Welcome to our celebration of ten years of pops concerts. When we started them, we didn’t know exactly what “pops” would entail but felt we needed something fun to get us all through the last dark days...
View ArticleFauré Requiem Program Notes
Music That Heals We cannot think of a more fitting and beautiful way to close our first full season since the pandemic began in 2020 than with Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem (1888), nor a better place to sing...
View ArticleAnnelies: The Voice of Anne Frank Program Notes
In Hiding Annelies draws its inspiration and most of its text from the world-famous diary of Anne Frank (1929-1945). Born in Frankfurt to an assimilated, middle-class, German-Jewish family, Anne, along...
View ArticleYuletide: From the Pacific Northwest Program Notes
Welcome, Yule! The holidays can mingle experiences in unexpected ways. Our concert does the same, bringing together music by composers from around the world and from right here in the “upper left...
View ArticleBeethoven Mass in C Major, op. 86 Program Notes
A Feast of Sacred Music Welcome to our first collaboration with the Sunnyside Symphony Orchestra. We are delighted at this opportunity to join together to present Beethoven’s inspiring Mass in C Major....
View ArticleNorthwest Voices Program Notes
This season’s final concerts highlight the work of composers with special ties to the Pacific Northwest. Some were born and grew up here, while others settled here after living in other states or...
View ArticleI Believe Program Notes
I Believe: Music of a Long Struggle Program Notes We have all heard the famous words of Martin Luther King that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Yes, the arc does...
View ArticleCAE Yuletide: Gloria Program Notes
Gloria in excelsis What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with “a joyful noise”- resounding voices, shimmering brasses, sonorous organ, thrilling percussion, and also the warmth of a lone...
View ArticleCAE Pops! The Great American Songbook
From roughly 1920 to 1960, the “Golden Age of American Song” drew on music from Broadway shows, Hollywood musicals, and Tin Pan Alley. Those years also saw the transformation of America’s entertainment...
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