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    Tower of Song: An Evening of Music to Dispel Darkness

    Tower of Song: An Evening of Music to Dispel Darkness

    Presented by First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia at First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia

    August 13, 2011


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    Join six of Philadelphia's most adventurous choral singers for this free concert commemorating their week-long immersion in music for women's voices.  Appropriately for a late summer concert, the program calls upon invocations of light and security, ranging from a sampling of Marian paeans to Hildegard von Bingen's poems celebrating wisdom to European folk lullabies of homecoming and safe passage. In singing through these centuries of illumination, we find the same themes suggested by composers as disparate as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594) and Amy Beach (1867–1944), Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967) and Abbie Betinis (1980–). Taken together, the evening's repertoire serves as proof against the encroaching darkness of evening and autumn, sustaining us for the coming night.


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        First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia

        2125 Chestnut Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19103

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        FREE!

        Info Phone: 315-450-5328

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        August 13, 2011

        Times:

        8 pm

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