Orlando Sings will conclude their inaugural season with a three-concert series in downtown Orlando; the first annual Orlando Sings Choral Festival.
The festival will open on May 26th with Orlando’s own professional vocal ensemble, The Solaria Singers, presenting a thrilling and compelling program of choral music by Black composers in the Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
The festival continues on June 9th at the First United Methodist Church of Orlando where the 75-voice Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus, featuring the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra will present Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem along with Andrea Clearfield’s Tse Go La. Both of these pieces reflect on life in all of its stages from birth to final breath. The evening will be in dedication to the 49 lives lost in the Pulse tragedy and the concert will be included in the official Remembrance Week activities.
The festival concludes on June 11th with the Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus presenting Eric Whitacre’s “Sacred Veil” featuring UCF cello professor David Bjella in Steinmetz Hall.
Premiered in 2019, The Sacred Veil is a 12-movement work and the most recent collaboration between Eric Whitacre and poet/lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri telling a story of life, love and loss. Silvestri’s wife, Julie, died of ovarian cancer at age 36 in 2005, leaving two young children. Including texts from Silvestri, Whitacre and Julie herself, the intimate, compelling score tells a story of courtship, love, loss and the search for solace.
This performance is the final concert of the First Annual Orlando Sings Choral Festival and concludes the Inaugural Season of Orlando Sings. A historic moment, this will be the Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus debut in the acoustically exquisite Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
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