Yale Schola Cantorum to sing Handel's Dixit Dominus and works by Nordic and Baltic composers
Join us on Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Woolsey Hall as Stefan Parkman leads Yale Schola Cantorum in a program that includes Handel’s Dixit Dominus and works by Nordic and Baltic composers. The concert is free and open to the public and will also be livestreamed.
The repertoire includes:
Henry Purcell (arr: Gunnar Eriksson): Music for a While
Bengt Hambraeus: Motetum Archangeli Michaelis
Britta Byström: Lux Aeterna
Wilhelm Stenhammar: I Seraillets Have – Havde jeg, o havde jag en Datterson, o ja! (from Tre körvisor)
Nils Lindberg: As You Are
Lars Johan Werle: trees
Henry Purcell/Sven-David Sandström: Hear My Prayer, O Lord
B. Tommy Andersson: Gloria (Commissioned by ISM; world premiere)
G.F. Händel: Dixit Dominus
Yale Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and led by interim conductor Stefan Parkman. Masaaki Suzuki is the ensemble’s principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a special interest in historically informed performance practice, often in collaboration with instrumentalists from Juilliard415.