Resonance Nova

Resonance Ensemble — Katherine FitzGibbon, Director

Featuring the combined choirs of:
Resonance Ensemble — Katherine FitzGibbon, Artistic Director and Conductor
Lewis & Clark College Cappella Nova — Katherine FitzGibbon, Director
Reed College Collegium Musicum — Shohei Kobayashi, Director

The Orchestra Nova Northwest launches a new collaboration with the brilliant and dynamic Resonance Ensemble, a professional vocal ensemble with a mission that mirrors that of the Orchestra Nova Northwest, who is committed to creating and presentingpowerful programs promoting meaningful social change. This program will present an evocative work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw that uses excerpts of American poet Emma Lazarus’ poem The New Colossus and also addresses refugee crises, and a rarely performed work of American composer Margaret Bonds that setsW.E.B. Du Bois’ stirring Credo from his 1920 autobiography, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. The combined choruses from Lewis and Clark and Reed Colleges will join the Resonance Ensemble and the ONN for the mighty and majestic Dona nobis pacem of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, a work composed in 1936 and written as a plea for peace between the two world wars.

Program:

CAROLINE SHAW — To the Hands
MARGARET BONDS — Credo
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS — Dona nobis pacem

Sponsored by a generous gift from the Ronni S Lacroute Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation