Peace Concert
Grant Us Peace — Dona Nobis Pacem |
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
Silva Hall, Hult Center
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Concert Details
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| Festival of Peace |
| April 18-22 |
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| Leading up to the Grant Us Peace concert, the week of April 18-22 will be a “Festival of Peace.” These education and community outreach projects will be going on all week and are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. We want to promote peace and non-violence in our community as well as our nation and around the world. Here is the timeline of events: |
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| April 18 |
Windfall Reading Series, Poetry of Peace
Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 7:00-9:00 pm Eugene Public Library |
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| April 19 |
Master Class on Poetic Text in Vocal Music
led by Soprano soloist Carmen Pelton
and Baritone soloist James Bobick
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:00-9:00 pm Studio One, Hult Center |
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| April 20 |
Nobel Peace Laureate Monument Project
They have reserved a room at the Eugene Public Library for a presentation on “What the Nobel Peace Laureate Monument will mean for Eugene,” and they will have the model of the project on display in the Hult Center lobby on April 22. |
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| April 21 |
Lecture on 20th Century Musical Language
led by Diane Retallack
Friday, April 21, 12:00-1:00 pm, Studio One, Hult Center |
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| April 22 |
POSTPONED: An Earth Day for Peace*,
Eugene Peace Choir |
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| April 22 |
Pre-Concert Lecture
by composer Robert Kyr on the Repertoire of the
Dona Nobis Pacem - Grant Us Peace concert
Saturday, April 22, 7:00-7:30pm, Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center
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| April 22 |
Grant Us Peace*, Season Finale Concert
Saturday, April 22, 8:00pm, Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center
(tickets available at the Hult Box office at 682-5000) |
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| *Requires a ticket to attend |
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| The Eugene Concert Choir will end their 31st season with the Grant Us Peace concert on April 22, 2006 in Silva Concert Hall. The Choir, along with two professional soloists and the Oregon Mozart Players expanded to symphonic size, will send a message of peace and hope. The featured work will be Ralph Vaughan Williams' moving choral masterpiece Dona Nobis Pacem. Vaughan Williams wrote his Dona Nobis Pacem in the mid 1930’s as a warning against the rising drums of war in Europe. The text employs poems by Walt Whitman and John Bright, as well as passages from the Bible. Also featured will be the Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise and Robert Kyr’s “Voices for Peace.” This concert is supported by the Hult Endowment and is the culmination of a week-long “Festival of Peace.”
Please visit our website for daily updates. For further information,
please call the Choir office at 687-6865 or email choir@eugeneconcertchoir.org
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