Minnetonka Choral Society
Jere Lantz, Director
Minnetonka Choral Society presents
Masterworks of the Romantic Era
Jere Lantz, Director
Saturday, April 17, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Hopkins High School
2400 Lindbergh Dr
Minnetonka, MN 55305
Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students 16 and younger.
Tickets are available at the door or directly from MCS members.
If you want to purchase a large block, contact our Tickets officer.
Springtime means romance. And, in anticipation of spring, the Minnetonka Choral Society will present a program of romantic choral music that showcases the wonderful variety of styles that bloomed in 19th century Europe.
From Bohemia, the sharply etched pen of Antonin Dvorak, whose Te Deum represents his art at his most vigorous. (It was also his calling card as he came to visit America in the 1890s: he brought the score in his trunk so that he could show his skills to the Americans, however benighted they might be.)
From Brahms, the ultimate romantic symphonist, we offer Nenia, perhaps the most romantic piece he ever wrote, with a sweetness that belies his crusty personality and reveals a heart of gold.
Fauré is known as the watercolorist of music, the composer in whose very gentleness we find the ultimate in beauty and depth. His palette is nowhere so profound as in his Requiem.
Glorious melodies, sumptuous harmonies, deeply resonant meaning - these are the essence of “Romantic Voices” with the Minnetonka Choral Society. We all have romance in our souls. Here is the chance to hear it expressed in its ultimate medium: the human voice.
