Music of Elena Ruehr 05.19.11

For its season finale, the Trinity Choir with NOVUS NY, The Contemporary Music Ensemble of Trinity Wall Street, presents the Music of Elena Ruehr, a composer who draws inspiration from the rhythms of the language of poetry. Cricket, Spider, Bee, with text by Emily Dickinson, paints a naturalistic cycle in three movements. Gospel Cha Cha and In Time of Silver Rain both draw text from Langston Hughes poems. Averno is an 11-part cantata based on poetry by Louise Glück. And Rain Down, uses minimal text by Mary Ellen Solt, an American concrete poet. Soloists include Stephen Salters, baritone, for whom Ruehr wrote some of this music, and Marguerite Krull, soprano. Conductor: Julian Wachner. Purchase tickets online here. Tickets can also be purchased at the Trinity Gift Shop, inside Trinity Church.

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