Vox Grata Women's Choir - Nashville, TN, May 24, 2015

Festival Internacional de Corais Apresentação feita no Mosteiro Nossa Senhora das Graças - Monjas Beneditinas - BH www.monjasbeneditinasbh.org.br/

Festival Internacional de Corais Apresentação feita no Mosteiro Nossa Senhora das Graças - Monjas Beneditinas - BH www.monjasbeneditinasbh.org.br/

We are a vocal ensemble based in Perugia (Italy) and have been singing together since 2013. We enjoy singing a wide and varied repertoire of a cappella pieces. Please stay in touch with us by visiting our FB page: Vox-I...  moreWe are a vocal ensemble based in Perugia (Italy) and have been singing together since 2013. We enjoy singing a wide and varied repertoire of a cappella pieces. Please stay in touch with us by visiting our FB page: Vox-In-Fabula-1509783932653272/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/Vox-In-Fabula-1509783932653272/  

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

Festival Internacional de Corais Apresentação feita no Mosteiro Nossa Senhora das Graças - Monjas Beneditinas - BH www.monjasbeneditinasbh.org.br/

Festival Internacional de Corais Apresentação feita no Mosteiro Nossa Senhora das Graças - Monjas Beneditinas - BH www.monjasbeneditinasbh.org.br/

Festival Internacional de Corais Apresentação feita no Mosteiro Nossa Senhora das Graças - Monjas Beneditinas - BH www.monjasbeneditinasbh.org.br/

Festival Internacional de Corais Apresentação feita no Mosteiro Nossa Senhora das Graças - Monjas Beneditinas - BH www.monjasbeneditinasbh.org.br/