VISITATIONS
VISITATIONS
November 2–5, 2023
Music Director Daniel Hope on “Visitations”
Thursday, November 2, 2023: 7:30pm
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
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Friday, November 3, 2023: 7:30pm*
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco
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Saturday, November 4, 2023: 7:30pm*
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco
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Sunday, November 5, 2023: 3:00pm*
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Tiburon
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*These performances are part of the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music
There will be a free open rehearsal for this program on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 from 10:00am-12:30pm at Forest Hill Christian Church (250 Laguna Honda Boulevard, San Francisco). Please RSVP to tickets@ncco.org to confirm your attendance.
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Journey into the beyond with Daniel Hope and New Century as they offer music for communing with spirits, whether connecting with those we’ve lost or outwitting death for another night! Mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor and a haunting chorus of eight voices join our musicians in a candlelit, otherworldly setting to examine connections with the afterlife from many cultural angles, such as Paul Dukas’s playful tone poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Argentinian composer Ariel Ramírez’s resplendent Misa Criolla. Composer Nicolás Lell Benavides premieres a new work commissioned by New Century, a piece for violin and strings that summons the spirit of Doña Sebastiana, Lady Death of the American Southwest.
Kelley O’Connor
mezzo-soprano
Daniel Hope
Music Director and Concertmaster
PROGRAM:
Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Bogoroditse devo” (Rejoice, O Virgin) from All-Night Vigil
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Fólk fær andlit (People get Faces)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
“Ária” (Cantilena) from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Peter Lieberson
“Amor mío, si muero y tú no mueres”
(My love, if I die and you don’t) from Neruda Songs
Franz Schubert
Erlkönig (The Elf King), Op. 1, D.328
Nicolás Lell Benavides
Doña Sebastiana (Lady Death) [World Premiere]
Commissioned by New Century Chamber Orchestra
INTERMISSION
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Carlos Simon
Elegy: A Cry from the Grave
Arvo Pärt
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Ariel Ramirez
Misa Criolla
(arr. Paul Bateman)
Listen to Selections from “Visitations”
DISCOVER MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Excerpt from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas
Kelley O'Connor performs Lieberson's Neruda Songs
New Century performs Carlos Simon's Elegy (A Cry from the Grave)