Visiting Venezuelan Choir Enjoys Its Own Evening

Posted on August 24, 2009
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Repost from The New York Times

Link to story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/arts/music/17schola.html

The Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, from Caracas, has become Lincoln Center’s resident exotic choir, mainly because composers seem so strongly drawn to the group’s robust, flexible sound. Osvaldo Golijov wanted that sound in his “Pasión Según San Marcos,” and after the choir sang the work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2002, Lincoln Center brought it back to New York for performances in 2006 and 2007. John Adams wrote for it as well: the choir sang in the first performances, and on the recording, of his opera “A Flowering Tree,” and the choir is in town mainly to sing that work as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival.

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Most of the music was sung a cappella, but Mr. Whitacre’s “Cloudburst” added another level of color, by way of a piano, a percussion ensemble in the balcony and handbells played by the choir.

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