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In the final set, soprano Tina Torlone will premiere two songs from a set called Five Songs on Italian Texts. This project began as a single song which Maria composed for Tina in memory of her mother who had recently passed away, but Italian scholar and Annex alto Laura Mosco provided so many lovely, elegiac Italian poems, that it grew into a set of five “in memoriam” songs, one for each of five women connected by music and friendship, in memory of their mothers.
At the end of this set, Melanie returns to sing two of the four songs from Songs of the Seasons on texts by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. This set began as a single song, “Vagabond”, written for a Song Slam in January of 2020. Melanie so completely embodied the spirit of the song, that I decided I needed to compose the three missing seasons for her. On Saturday, we will perform “Vagabond” (autumn) and “Fireflies” (summer).
Joshua Clemenger sings “Time Moves Like a Heron” from The Slow Hand of Time, a set of four songs on texts by John Warden. Inspired by John’s poetry (which is decidedly not doggerel), Maria enjoyed their collaboration on this set and on “Storm Birds”, a choral piece which won the Da Capo NewWorks award and looks forward to future collaborations.
Into Flight premiered on an Annex Singers programme in March 2012, was written at the request of former choir member Joanna Manning to commemorate her ordination as an Anglican priest in the fall of 2011. The texts are excerpts from Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of Divinity) by the 13th century German mystical writer Mechthild von Magdeburg.
Nightsongs was composed in response to an open call for compositions by Plangere Publishing and published in the 2009 art song album The Toronto Song Book. These songs, settings of Sappho’s passionate and evocative poetry, are meant to be sung with great freedom, in the style of a cantillation. Listed in the advanced levels of the RCM Voice Syllabus, they have received many performances in Canada and beyond.
If you like art song and want to support a Toronto-based woman composer, Maria Case's works are being showcased in https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/into-flight-livestream-tickets-505749429157 (concert with live-streaming tomorrow evening).
Ivan Jovanovic, a well known vocal coach who has worked with many of the singers, is on piano.
The following toots describe the non-choral pieces on the program
Into Flight — Livestream
A spirit-lifting evening of art song and choral music!
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