Visions & Voices Opening Night - Singletary Center for the Arts Lexington

×

Expand

VISIONS & VOICES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023 | 7:30 PM

Singletary Center for the Arts

405 Rose St.

Lexington, KY 40508

Shawn E. Okpebholo - Sing Dumb

Shawn E. Okpebholo - Kutimbua Kivumbi (Stomp the Dust)

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana

Jessica Bayne, soprano

Dylon Crain, tenor

Christopher Burchett, baritone

Featuring the combined choirs of:

The Lexington Singers - Dr. Jefferson Johnson, Director

University of Kentucky Chorale - Dr. Jefferson Johnson, Director

University of Kentucky Men’s Chorus - Dr. Jefferson Johnson, Director

The Lexington Singers Children’s Choir - Daniel Wesley, Director

Featured Soloists from:

University of Kentucky Opera Theater - Dr. Everett McCorvey, Director

VISIONS & VOICES features the epic combined orchestral and choral forces of The Lexington Singers and Children’s Choir, the University of Kentucky Chorale and Men’s Chorus, and featured soloists from the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre at the Singletary Center for the Arts.  The program opens with two powerful works by Composer-In-Residence Shawn E. Okpebholo. In the words of Okpebholo, Sing Dumb (2016) for voice and orchestra is a piece responding to “a shared feeling of dumbfoundedness,” in the wake of violence and political turmoil in the United States. Okpebholo’s Stomp the Dust (2016), translated from the Swahili phrase “Kutimbua Kivumbi,” was inspired by the composer's trip to Kenya, “a colorful place, reflected visually and also in the vibrant and welcoming nature of the people.” Closing the program is Carl Orff’s magnum opus, Carmina Burana, a heavily rhythmic and Renaissance-influenced setting of 24 medieval poems featuring orchestra, soloists, and over 200 epic voices.

For more information, please visit lexphil.org/epic-voices