Sunday, June 9
4:00 pm
Duke Chapel

$10 General Admission
Students free with ID
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THERE WILL BE REST

Stephen Chatman           Dryads' bells
       - sung bell sounds by this Canadian composer, written in 1999

Dan Locklair                    Bond and Free
        - world premiere of NC composer Dan Locklair’s 2012 setting of a Robert Frost poem that explores two sides of life: the intellectual and the emotional

James MacMillan             A Child's Prayer
         - written by Scottish composer James MacMillan to honor the victims of the 1996 killing at the Dunblane Primary School, which took the lives of 16 children and one adult; performed in this concert to honor the victims of the killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December

Steven Sametz                On the death of a friend
          - 2003 composition, with a text from a sermon prior to 1910 burial of King Edward VII

Francis Poulenc               Vinea mea electa
           - one of French composer Poulenc’s 4 Lenten motets from 1939; based on Isaiah and Jeremiah texts about a beloved vine that has turned bitter

Herbert Howells               Take him, earth, for cherishing
            - massive and powerful work written in memory of President John F. Kennedy; performed in this concert to mark the 50th anniversary of his 1963 assassination

Ned Rorem                        Lift up your heads
            - written for Ascension Day in 1963, in memory of composer Francis Poulenc

Dale Warland                     There will be rest
             - a Sara Teasdale poem, in a choral setting with harp and flute, composed for the Dale Warland Singers in 2003

Dan Forrest                        Amen
             - 8-voice final movement from SC composer Dan Forrest’s Words of Paradise, 2007

Ēriks Eŝenvalds                 Northern Lights
             - 2012 composition by this Latvian composer; including a Latvian folk song and the words of two Arctic explorers who encountered the wondrous sight of the Northern lights; with tuned water glasses and chimes!

Arvo Pärt                           Nunc dimittis
            - highly expressive 2001 setting by this beloved Estonian minimalist composer; “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace”

Jaako Mäntyjärvi               Psalm 150 in Grandsire Triples
          - this Finnish composer’s 1999 piece that includes sung bell patterns in the specific change-ringing style called Grandsire Triples