The chamber chorus VOICES 21 was formed in the fall of 2000 by founding director Dr. Jesse Parker. The chorus specializes in a cappella repertoire of the 15th, 16th, 20th, and 21st centuries, focusing on rarely performed and little-known masterpieces.
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Please join us on June 1st and 2nd for our program "A Choral tapestry" which will feature music by Lauridsen, Stanford, Walker. Chatman and much more.
The Washington-area chamber chorus Voices 21 closes its thirteenth season with a program that weaves an array of musical selections into one beautiful choral tapestry on the human response to nature's beauty. From Morten Lauridsen's exploration of narcissism through the beautiful rose in Dirait-on to the belief that we are all connected to Earth in Gwyneth Walker's The Dark Around Us from The Great Trees, this concert explores the many ways we respond to our surroundings. With Stephen Chatman's trilogy Voices of Earth, he suggests that nature's sights and sounds can induce both great joy and grief, a theme also depicted in Charles V. Stanford's The Blue Bird and in a setting of Walt Whitman's poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Join us in this beautiful celebration of nature's and music's ability to transport us.
