The
final concert in the Western Reserve Chorale’s 31st season will welcome
a British invasion of choral music, featuring compositions and lyrics
which derive from the expansive history of the choral traditions from
the British isles. The Chorale will share songs of the land, whether
Over Hill, Over Dale (a setting of Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s
Dream’; or the sun setting on the silver shores of the Northern Land as
set by Edward Elgar. There will be songs of those that “sail the ocean
blue’ (Gilbert and Sullivan) and Vaughan Williams setting of the folks
song The Dark Eyed Sailor. The Chorale will take either the high or low
road to Scotland to the shores of Jonathan Quick’s Loch Lomond and then
catch the boat to the Isle of Skye (in a setting of the Scottish folk
tune now better known as the theme to The Outlander television series).
Perhaps you’ll catch a whale of a tale in a sea shanty from down under,
or be carried away by the antics of The Owl and the Pussy-cat sailing
away in their beautiful pea-green boat.
However
you choose to travel, whether by Land or Sea (though we recommend the
land route), we hope you will join us at Church of the Gesu in
University Heights on Sunday, June 4th at 3:30 pm, on our many musical
adventures around the British Isles and beyond.
If Land or Sea are not good options for you, find your way to our YouTube channel for the livestream.