Northern Lights - Fall 2019

Chromatica, the popular Danville chorus that performed the world premiere of Stacy Garrop's O Time, a piece commissioned by and for Chromatica in its last series of concerts will focus on the choral music of Northern European composers for its November 2019 concerts. The first concert will be on November 2 at 7pm at Grace Presbyterian Church at 2100 Tice Valley Boulevard in Walnut Creek. The next will be on Sunday November 3 at 3pm at Holy Shepherd Lutheran Church at 433 Moraga Way in Orinda. The final concert will be at 7 pm at Peace Lutheran Church at 3201 Camino Tassajara in Danville.

The Northern Lights concerts include music from well-known composers like Edvard Grieg with Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt to unpronounceable composers like Jaakko Mantyjarvi. His Four Shakespearean songs are drawn from Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and The Tempest. Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo, now resident in the USA, has several pieces in the concerts including Dark Night of the Soul, Luminous Night of the Soul and The Rose. These three pieces will be accompanied by a string quartet — it has long been Chromatica's ambition to use instrumental as well as piano accompaniment. The popular Eriks Esenvalds is represented by Long Road and his unique setting of Amazing Grace.