[NEohioPAL] Cleveland Chamber Choir: Rachmaninoff's All Night Vigil
Kira McGirr
kmcgirr at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 08:05:00 PDT 2025
On October 24 & 25, join the Cleveland Chamber Choir by candlelight for a
concert of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s beloved "All-Night Vigil" and Reena
Esmail’s "A Winter Breviary." The Vigil was one of Rachmaninoff’s favorite
works, and he even requested the fifth movement (the Nunc dimittis) be sung
at his funeral.
Esmail’s "A Winter Breviary" takes us from winter’s darkness to spring’s
light. Its harmonic language is drawn from Indian Carnatic raags (melodic
modes) that are associated with the hours of prayer from dusk to dawn. Poet
Rebecca Gaye Howell, who wrote the text, speaks to the connection of these
works directly, “For more than a thousand years, across the world and often
without knowing, these two spiritual traditions have met, together, in
song. Both raags and canonical prayers offer a constancy that marks a life
by the well-loved day; they both act as a kind of clock for the soul.”
Join us on this profound journey of light and hope, as we consider how the
idea of vigil – a period of wakefulness and watchfulness – can help us find
peace in a chaotic world. More information at clevelandchamberchoir.org
Charles Edward McGuire, PhD, from Oberlin College & Conservatory, will
present a pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to each performance.
Inspired by musical themes of creating peace and community, a portion of
all donations will be directed to Re:Source Cleveland, helping them further
their mission of helping Cleveland’s newest neighbors to create roots
within our Cleveland community.
Friday, October 24, 2025, at 7:30pm at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave.,
Cleveland
Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 7:00pm at Fairchild Chapel, 50 W. Lorain
St., Oberlin
The concert is presented with “pay what you wish” tickets. The choir is
grateful for the full season grant support provided by The Louise H. and
David S. Ingalls Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, and support by
Trinity Cathedral as named Artist in Residence.
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