Review of the season opening concert by the Orpheus Chamber Singers.
, setting Dylan Thomas’ famous poem, a piano introduction establishes a pleasantly piquant harmonic language. By turns dreamy and excited, in telling contrasts of voices and textures, the choral writing dramatizes the poet’s reminiscences of more innocent times.
Erin Roth Thomas of the Orpheus Chamber Singers sings a solo during a performance of John Corigilano's "Fern Hill" at Zion Lutheran Church in Dallas, Texas on Oct. 22, 2022. sets four Walt Whitman poems evoking Civil War scenes, with a surprising variety of guitar effects interspersed and accompanying.
Solemn music imagines sleeping soldiers, others dead and bloated, but also a tender — and quite surprising — kiss from a soldier to a dead enemy. “Beat! Beat! Drums!” is as angular and aggressive as you’d expect. Burnett has vastly expanded Orpheus’ dynamic range, sometimes too much of a good thing. Some fortissimos were simply too loud, almost overloading the acoustics of Zion Lutheran Church. And I often wished for more differentiated vowels and more projection of consonants.
But Burnett is well respected in choral circles, and his appointment here was widely considered a coup. He subsequently also became director of choral activities at the University of Texas in Austin. With his clear direction, professionalism was never in doubt, although he talked too much.were out of order in the printed program, which also didn’t identify the concert’s fine soloists. Cody Conway’s program notes were printed in type so small one almost needed a magnifying glass..
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