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Month of Moderns II Bo Holten returns to our repertoire with In nomine (1999), a stunning work for 24 voices based on a mass of early-16th-century English composer, John Taverner. Also drawing on music of that era is American composer Stephen Stucky’s Whispers (2002), written for Chanticleer and based on the famed Ave verum corpus of Elizabethan composer William Byrd, who seems to call out from an earlier time, pulling at Stucky’s more modern setting of a poem of Walt Whitman. Still recalling 16th century, we hear British composer Peter McGarr’s setting of Shakespeare’s famed ‘This sceptr’d isle’ speech (Richard II), in his Dreaming England (2005). We expand The Celan Project with a young Chicago composer, Kirsten Broberg, whose sense of color and space have brought her much recent attention. Czech composer Petr Eben, who passed away last October, will be remembered with his thoughtful Bilder der Hoffnung (1998), featuring our organist, Scott Dettra, organist at Washington National Cathedral. The fascinating Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, an institution in his native Denmark, seems to effortlessly combine humor with longing, minimalism with improvisatory writing, eclecticism with simplicity; it’s a curiosity why he is not known in America! His Four Madrigals from the Natural World (2001) form a challenging, wonderful experience in music.
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