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YOU SAVED THE DATE.
IT'S ALMOST TIME.
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY AT 8 PM
San Fernando and Market Sts.
Spring Concert
Join us for an evening of compassion, triumph and joy!
This performance features music by two exciting local composers, Sondra Clark and Henry Mollicone, and the combined forces of San Jose Symphonic Choir, Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose and Mission Chamber Orchestra.
Guest soloists: Janet Campbell, Catharine Shoemaker, sopranos; Wendy Hillhouse, mezzo soprano; Norm DeVol, James Stahlman, tenors; Justin Niehoff Smith, baritone
Ticket Prices:
Group purchases of 10 or more tickets receive a $2/ticket discount.
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Requiem For Lost Children
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IMAGE OF HOPE IN "REQUIEM FOR LOST CHILDREN"
Excerpted from a review by Paul Hertelendy in the San Jose Mercury News,
November 12, 1996
"Sondra Clark's "Requiem for Lost Children" is a deeply stirring statement voiced in a very modern musical language.
"Moved by the plight of abandoned and abused children, the Los Altos composer spent four years forging this powerful amalgam of the old and the new, as evolutionary in its approach as the requiems of Johannes Brahms and Benjamin Britten were in their days.
 "A 1972 Ph. D. from Stanford, Clark brought many messages together-from St. Matthew ('Become as little children...'), the Beatitudes (Blessed are the pure in heart'), the old Latin mass, and some angelic dialogues on her own texts in English.
"As a composer, she is stylistically farther away from Charles Ives-her main study focus at Stanford-than Igor Stravinsky or Ralph Vaughan Williams of the 1930s and 1940s.
"Clark begins her requiem (a Mass for the dead) with 12-tone rows , but she sets her rows so mellifluously that the warmth of expression permeates the piece with an iridescent glow.
"The overall effect of this 45-minute choral-orchestral piece is one of hope and transcendence. As Clark put it in her pre-concert talk, hers 'is a message of love, triumph and joy.'"
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Flight through the Stars:
A Cantata of Discovery |
Music by Henry Mollicone
Libretto by Cory Wade
A few weeks ago, Henry Mollicone wrote the following, in response to questions about his composition, which features solo voices of Columbus, Galileo, an Indian Girl and Queen Isabella:
"I composed this work about discovery to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Columbus voyage, and then the work was commissioned by the San Jose Symphonic Choir.
 I hope the work will speak for itself. Cory Wade, who wrote the words, and I were using 'discovery' as the unifying factor: the European 'discovery' of the Americas, the American Indian woman's dreaming and wondering what's beyond her own world, the first walk on the moon, Galileo's rediscovery of the Copernican system (that the earth moves around the sun), for which he was censored by the Inquisition, and Einstein's sense of wonder in all of his work. I felt inspired by the Einstein quote in the last movement of the piece, where he claimed that our purpose as human beings was to widen the circle of compassion to include all living things: a Buddhist concept!"
Read the full text of Einstein's quote in the column at right.quote
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 Widening our Circle of Compassion
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A human being is part of the whole called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feellings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our own personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures.
- Albert Einstein, 1954
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"I opened my eyes and the peaks grew higher, they drew me up. Farther on green sea, deeper in black space, higher from white peaks. Sailing on the sea-wind, floating on the star-wind, soaring through the void."
from Flight Through the Stars, Cory Wade, librettist
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