Redeemer Lutheran Church
1691 Bloor St W
Toronto, ON M6P 1B1
Personnel
Brad Cherwin, Director and Clarinets
Reilly Nelson, Voice
Joonghun Cho, Piano
Julia Mirzoev, Violin
Peter Eom, Cello
Declan Scott, Flugelhorn
Hoi Tong Keung, Production
About THE KING’S GRIEF:
the wolves cry, an end foretold
In THE KING’S GRIEF, The Happenstancers present Judith Weir’s micro-opera King Harald’s Saga, punctuating Weir's tragic narrative with the music of Thomas Adès, Oliver Knussen, Thierry Tidrow, Mary Dering, John Dowland, and casting the works as incidental music within a larger drama.
The contemporary music in this performance features historical allusion and musical quotation, stealing the listener’s sense of chronological location and pulling them between the sounds of the past, present, and some-time else entirely.
Music by Judith Weir, John Dowland, Thomas Adès, and more
Recognized by The WholeNote Magazine as “the future of chamber music,” and as “Toronto’s chamber supergroup,” by Ludwig Van Toronto, The Happenstancers is a hybrid ensemble for the twenty-first century — part laboratory for experimentation with innovative curatorial techniques and concert forms, and part mixed vocal/instrumental contemporary chamber music ensemble.
Tickets —
General Admission $35.00
Student Admission $10.00
Programme:
Prologue
Oliver Knussen — Elegiac Arabesques
First Act
Judith Weir — King Harald’s Saga, act I
Mary Dering (arr. Thierry Tidrow) — When First I Saw…
A Purcell Garland
O. Knussen — Upon One Note
Colin Matthews — Fantasia VII
George Benjamin — Fantasia XII
John Dowland (arr. The Happenstancers) — Seaven Teares
Second Act
Thomas Adès — Darknesse Visible
J. Weir — King Harald’s Saga, Act II
M. Dering (arr. T. Tidrow) — And is This All?
T. Adès — Court Studies, from The Tempest
i. The False Duke
ii. The Prince
iii. The King
iv. The False Duke’s Defeat
iv. The Counsellor
M. Dering (arr. T. Tidrow) — A False Designe to be Cruel
J. Weir — King Harald’s Saga, act III
Epilogue
J. Weir — King Harald’s Saga, epilogue
T. Adès — Court Studies, from The Tempest
vi. The King’s Grief
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