Quire of Voyces Concert: Furusato

Join us for the Quire of Voyces ‘Furusato’ Concert on June 2nd 2 pm at St. Mark’s in the Valley and directed by the talented Nathan Kreitzer.  This final concert of our 30th Season will feature our Performance Tour program for our subsequent trip to Japan in late June.

Highlighted by local Composer-in-Residence Steve Dombek’s ‘Mass for Six Voices’ and local composer Emma Lou Diemer’s ‘Be Still’, both Commissioned works, the concerts will also include American pieces and works sung in Japanese. Please join us and be the first to hear this concert program before it makes its way around performance venues in Japan.    You’ll enjoy the musical variety and the beautiful choral sounds of Furusato, which means ‘homeland’, as expressed in the resonant acoustic of St. Mark’s in the Valley.  Please come and be transported by the beauty of a cappella choral music, brought to life by the Quire of Voyces and the vision of Artistic Director Nathan Kreitzer.

PROGRAM ORDER -June ‘24

Hito wa ochime ga daiji: from Two Japanese Proverbs by Gary Kent Walth (b. 1952)

Furusato: Japanese folk song arranged by Philip Lawson (b. 1957)

Mass for Six Voices: by Stephen Dombek (b. 1953)

• Kyrie
• Gloria
• Credo
• Sanctus/Benedictus
• Agnus Dei

Be Still: by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927)

We Gather Together: arranged by Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)

Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal: arranged by Alice Parker (1925-2023)

Shenandoah: American folksong arranged by James Erb (1926-2014)

Unclouded Day: music by Rev. J. K. Alwood (1828-1909), arranged by Shawn Kirchner (b. 1970)

For more information on this or other Quire of Voyces concerts, performances and workshops visit quireofvoyces.org.  Email Patty at quireofvoyces@gmail.com

Photos credit Clint Weisman