HANDEL'S DIXIT DOMINUS

Saturday, October 20, 2007, 8:00 PM
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 East Genesee St., Syracuse

Sunday, October 21, 2007, 3:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 East Genesee St., Skaneateles

SVE opens its season with a performance of George Frideric Handel's magnificent psalm setting, Dixit Dominus. This work dates from Handel's early years while living and studying in Italy, during which time he wrote a number of Latin choral settings. In fact, Handel composed this virtuosic work in 1707--exactly 300 years ago! In contrast, The Ecstacies Above, a recent work by English composer Tarik O'Regan, using a moving text by Edgar Allen Poe, will complete the program. Both exceptional pieces will be accompanied by chamber strings.

A ROMANTIC CHRISTMAS PIE

Saturday, December 15, 2007, 7:30 PM
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Sunday, January 6, 2008, 3:00 PM
Cicero United Methodist Church
8416 North Main St., Cicero

SVE's celebrated Christmas Pie concert tradition continues this year with a program of music for the season dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The program, chosen from romantic-era original works from Germany, France, England, and Italy, will feature works by Berlioz, Bruckner, Rossini, and many more. Ottorino Respighi's beautiful Laud to the Nativity, scored for chorus, woodwinds, and piano, will conclude the program. Then join us for the famous pie reception!

MUSIC FROM THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN

Saturday, March 1, 2008, 8:00 PM
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
250 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Sunday, March 2, 2008, 3:00 PM
The Presbyterian Church in Geneva
24 Park Place, Geneva

In recent years, SVE has presented programs devoted to single countries, such as Estonia, Japan, and Ireland. This theme-by-country motif continues in our final concert of the season with music from Finland. Choral music is immensely popular throughout all of Scandinavia, but perhaps nowhere more than in Finland, where vocal art music and folk songs together form an extraordinary array of superb choral repertoire. The program selections will include several charming folk arrangements, works of Jean Sibelius and Einojuhani Rautavaara, and the premiere performance of a newly commissioned work by Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas.

SVE AFTER HOURS

Saturday, May 17, 2008, 7:00 PM
May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society
3800 East Genesee St., Dewitt

Join us for this season extra and fundraiser for the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble. For this festive event, our singers will break from the traditional concert format to entertain with solos, duets and small ensembles from the lighter repertoire of comic opera, operetta and Broadway. The performance will take place in a cabaret-style setting where light snacks, wine and other refreshments will be served. Get your tickets early for this fun-filled event!