Wednesday, February 29, 2012

"English Grandeur" performance celebrates SCSO's return to Sacramento Community Center Theater


Conductor Donald Kendrick and a cast of almost 300 SCSO performers will celebrate their return to the Sacramento Community Center Theater with English Grandeur, a dramatic concert celebrating music of the great English Romantic composers.

Saturday, April 14, 2012
7 PM - Pre-concert talk
8 PM - Performance

Sir William Walton 
Belshazzar's Feast 
An epic work of unparalleled passion and drama,vividly recounting the fall of Babylon and Jewish repatriation. 

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Song of Thanksgiving
Five Mystical Songs
 

William Mathias
Let the People Praise Thee, O God (Music for Lady Diana's Wedding) 

Soloists:
Clayton Brainerd, Metropolitan Opera Star - Bass Baritone
Carrie Hennessey, Soprano

Special Guests:
The Sacramento Children's Chorus (Lynn Stevens Director)
The Sacramento State University Chorus

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