Did you know that a radio could transport you to a different universe? With VocalEssence, anything is possible. Jake Heggie, one of the world’s most prominent composers of dramatic vocal music and composer of the opera Dead Man Walking, along with librettist Gene Scheer, have created a new theatrical production titled The Radio Hour which crosses Alice in Wonderland with the… Read More →
Did you know that a radio could transport you to a different universe? With VocalEssence, anything is possible. Jake Heggie, one of the world’s most prominent composers of dramatic vocal music and composer of the opera Dead Man Walking, along with librettist Gene Scheer, have created a new theatrical production titled The Radio Hour which crosses Alice in Wonderland with the… Read More →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otO1BYz_i6o When you attend one of the two VocalEssence Radio Hour concerts this weekend, you are sure to be stirred by something you haven’t experienced before—and treated to some old favorites, too. The first half of the program reaches back to the early days of radio in a tribute to Fred Waring and the music… Read More →
Pre-concert conversation with Sounds of Blackness Director Gary Hines and Don Shelby at 3 pm. Celebrating 25 years of WITNESS, VocalEssence salutes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Sounds of Blackness. Under the direction of Gary Hines, Sounds of Blackness performs and proclaims the music, culture and history of African Americans… Read More →
God Jul! Leave your lutefisk, julbord, glögg, and Dala horses at home and come celebrate a VocalEssence Scandinavian and Nordic Christmas with carols from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Sing along to a new Christmas cantata, A Light in the Stable by Alan Bullard, with Katherine Ferrand as narrator, and hear two premieres of contest-winning Welcome Christmas… Read More →
God Jul! Leave your lutefisk, julbord, glögg, and Dala horses at home and come celebrate a VocalEssence Scandinavian and Nordic Christmas with carols from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Sing along to a new Christmas cantata, A Light in the Stable by Alan Bullard, with Katherine Ferrand as narrator, and hear two premieres of contest-winning Welcome Christmas… Read More →
God Jul! Leave your lutefisk, julbord, glögg, and Dala horses at home and come celebrate a VocalEssence Scandinavian and Nordic Christmas with carols from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Sing along to a new Christmas cantata, A Light in the Stable by Alan Bullard, with Katherine Ferrand as narrator, and hear two premieres of contest-winning Welcome Christmas… Read More →
God Jul! Leave your lutefisk, julbord, glögg, and Dala horses at home and come celebrate a VocalEssence Scandinavian and Nordic Christmas with carols from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Sing along to a new Christmas cantata, A Light in the Stable by Alan Bullard, with Katherine Ferrand as narrator, and hear two premieres of contest-winning Welcome Christmas… Read More →
God Jul! Leave your lutefisk, julbord, glögg, and Dala horses at home and come celebrate a VocalEssence Scandinavian and Nordic Christmas with carols from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Sing along to a new Christmas cantata, A Light in the Stable by Alan Bullard, with Katherine Ferrand as narrator, and hear two premieres of contest-winning Welcome Christmas… Read More →
God Jul! Leave your lutefisk, julbord, glögg, and Dala horses at home and come celebrate a VocalEssence Scandinavian and Nordic Christmas with carols from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Sing along to a new Christmas cantata, A Light in the Stable by Alan Bullard, with Katherine Ferrand as narrator, and hear two premieres of contest-winning Welcome Christmas… Read More →
Supported by Land O’Lakes and an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Don Shelby as Mark Twain will go on the road to Greater Minnesota to celebrate life on the Mississippi River. Through choral music and the spoken word, VocalEssence will take listeners on a musical journey… Read More →
Supported by Land O’Lakes and an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Don Shelby as Mark Twain will go on the road to Greater Minnesota to celebrate life on the Mississippi River. Through choral music and the spoken word, VocalEssence will take listeners on a musical journey… Read More →
