Two blockbuster works take up this system for the subsequent live performance that includes the TMSingers performed by Jean-Sébastien Vallée, together with Vivaldi’s widespread Gloria, and Jocelyn Hagen’s fascinating multimedia work, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
The TMSingers are the choir’s core skilled ensemble. They’re at present accepting functions for an audition; particulars right here.
The Music
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D main, RV 589
Vivaldi’s Gloria is a setting of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo, and it’s estimated that the phrases date again to the 4th century, once they grew to become an integral a part of the Latin mass. The composer wrote three Glorias, and solely two of them survive. RV 589 is the preferred, and most generally carried out.
The work was almost definitely written between 1713 and 1717, whereas Vivaldi was stationed as a priest on the Santa Maria della Pietà church in Venice. It consists of 12 actions, and falls into the style of cantata-mass. It’s speculated that he wrote it for the orphaned and deserted women who lived within the charitable residence known as Ospedale della Pietà. Vivaldi taught the ladies music and was identified to have composed music for his or her choir.
As a cantata-mass, the textual content is sung in snippets which are given numerous remedies by the devices, soloists, and full choir. The music is textural and expressive, and incorporates vocal and instrumental fireworks amongst its shifting moods, together with parts that come from widespread Venetian music of he period.
Jocelyn Hagen: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Hagen’s imaginative multimedia work immerses the viewers on the earth and artwork of Leonardo da Vinci in a live performance format. Leading edge video syncing expertise brings the phrases and drawings of the Renaissance grasp and polymath’s notebooks to life in concord with the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers as they carry out.
The American composer has written a broad based mostly physique of labor that features a specialty in vocal music of varied sorts, together with orchestral, chamber, and wind compositions. She is understood for her large-scale initiatives, together with dance and opera.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci is written for SATB choir, orchestra, and video projections, and it premiered in 2019. Jocelyn explains the association on her web site.
“Because the composer who’s the inventive pressure behind each the music and visible element, I’ve designed the work in order that the music serves as the inspiration for the movie as a substitute of it functioning as purely a supporting musical soundtrack.”
The undertaking was impressed by an exhibition of da Vinci’s Codex Leicester, a group of his scientific writings, on the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2016. Impressed by viewing the unique notebooks, the place he defined and related his concepts with footage, she grew to become decided to pursue what grew to become The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
His intricate writing goes from proper to left, and his sketches are gorgeous. Filmmaker Isaac Gale took these photographs and turned them into the projections, which use Muséik by Ion Live performance Media for a seamless sync with the music.
- Discover extra particulars in regards to the February 8 presentation of Toronto Mendelssohn Choir presents Visionaries: Vivaldi & Da Vinci [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.