Kaufman Music Center & Montclair State University's John J. Cali School of Music co-present

Bridges: VOCES8

Saturday | October 16 2021 | 7:30 pm

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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley

The celebrated British a cappella ensemble performs "After Silence," featuring choral works by Orlando Gibbons, Arvo Pärt, Thomas Tallis, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ola Gjeilo, Jake Runestad, Paul Smith, Roxanna Panufnik, Benjamin Britten, Claudio Monteverdi, Jean Sibelius, Jonathan Dove, Stephen Paulus and Eric Whitacre.

In the essay from which the title After Silence is taken, Aldous Huxley offers his thoughts on the essential force of music. The most profoundly significant constituents of our being, he says, include our responses to beauty, pleasure, pain, ecstasy, and death. These can best be ‘experienced, not expressed’ through silence, and after silence, through music. The choral works in this 15th-anniversary program (to accompany the ensemble’s compendium album release) are exalted, vital, and freed from their original contextual restraints and are distinguishable by their inexhaustible capacity to express the inexpressible.

ORLANDO GIBBONS  – “Drop, Drop, Slow Tears”
ARVO PÄRT  –  “The Deer’s Cry“
THOMAS TALLIS  –  “O Nata Lux”
TOMÄS LUIS DE VICTORIA  –  “Regina Caeli á 8“
SERGEI RACHMANINOV  –  "Bogoroditse Devo"
PAUL SMITH  –  “Nunc Dimittis”
OLA GJEILO  –  “Ubi Caritas”
STEPHEN PAULUS  –  “The Road Home”
JAKE RUNESTAD  –  “Let My Love Be Heard”
BENJAMIN BRITTEN  –  “Hymn to St. Cecilia”
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI  –  Book VI: Lagrime D’Amante al Sepolcro Dell’Amata (Sestina Madrigals)

The program will conclude with a selection of VOCES8’s jazz and pop arrangements.

$10 student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330.

Proof of COVID-19 vaccination and masks are required to enter Merkin Hall.
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