Cancelled: Summer Concert Series: Voices in Dialogue

This event has been cancelled due to illness.

As part of the Summer Evening Hours program, the Cathedral’s music department presents hour-long recitals starting at 6:30 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays during July. Admission to the Cathedral for Summer Evening Hours is a reduced flat rate of $5.

Voices in Dialogue – Benjamin Straley (organ) and Lauren Cook (soprano)

Although at first glance not having a common thread running through it, this program has been chosen to highlight pieces from the solo voice and organ repertoire which work in conversation with one another by virtue of composer or time period or genre.  Special mention may be made that, while the human voice is certainly held as the most expressive of all musical instruments, the organ could at times be characterized as inherently inexpressive, due in part to the production of its tone by steady wind pressures.  Does this evening’s program disprove that notion? We certainly hope so.

Program

Three Songs:
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
If Music be the Food of Love
Sweeter than Roses
Evening Hymn

Lauren Cook, soprano

Ciaconna in E minor                                                                       
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

Benjamin Straley, organ

Aria: Ich habe genug, BWV 82  
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Lauren Cook, soprano

Chorale Prelude: Erbarm’ dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721
J.S. Bach

Benjamin Straley, organ

Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken, Op. 13 No. 3 
G.F. Handel (1685-1759)

Lauren Cook, Soprano

Chorale Prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731
J.S. Bach

Benjamin Straley, organ

Come sing and dance 
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Lauren Cook, Soprano

Lento assai, molto espressivo
H. Howells

Benjamin Straley, organ

Aria, Op. 51
Flor Peeters (1903-1986)

Sure on this shining night, Op. 13 No. 3  
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Lauren Cook, soprano