EXPECTO
Songs of optimism and hope
As it prepares to perform at the National Festival of the Gay & Lesbian Association
of Choruses (GALA) this July, ÆDONIS will perform EXPECTO, its first concert series
as part of The Esoterics’
subscription concert season.
The sixteen men of ÆDONIS will offer a program of choral music by gay composers,
one that revolves around the theme of expectation: anticipation of news from afar,
optimism of a reunion between loved ones, and the hope for justice, solace, or healing
at day's end.
ÆDONIS will perform several of its favorite works from past seasons, including Pyotr
Tchaikovsky's ethereal Solovushko, Franz Schubert’s dreamlike Mondenschein,
Camille Saint-Saëns' ecstatic Calme des nuits, Benjamin Britten’s
stately Concord, Bern Herbolsheimer's captivating Love letters,
and Donald Skirvin's shimmering cycle of poems by Hart Crane: Yet, love endures.
In addition to these works, ÆDONIS will perform David Conte’s setting of the
enchanting Robert Herrick poem Charm me asleep, as well as the world premiere
of this year’s
POLYPHONOS winner, Scott Perkins. Perkins’ score, A word out of the sea,
sets verses from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of grass, and won him the
BMI Student Composer Award in 2004.
In EXPECTO, ÆDONIS will premiere yet another new work by director Eric Banks, this
one setting Sanskrit verses in a choral homage to the Hindu goddess of music, learning,
and culture: Sarasvati.
Don't miss this uplifting program of men’s a cappella singing at
its finest!
Concert schedule
Saturday, 10 May • 7:00pm • Lynnwood
Trinity Lutheran Church • 6215 196th St. SW
Sunday, 11 May • 3:00pm • Tacoma
Trinity Lutheran Church • 12115 Park Ave S
Saturday, 17 May • 8:00pm • West Seattle
Holy Rosary Catholic Church • 4139 42nd Ave SW
Sunday, 18 May • 3:00pm • Seattle
Queen Anne Christian Church • 1316 3rd Ave W