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HER 2020 - 2021 SEASON Celebrating the Impact of Women on the World - Eric Holtan, Founding Music Director 2020 marks the U.S. centenary of women’s suffrage, presenting the opportunity to explore and celebrate the indelible impact of women on our world. The essence of femininity is complex. “She” is perceived and experienced in different ways depending on the moment, the place, and the beholder: mother, healer, warrior, siren, leader and self. This is why music is such a powerful and fitting medium through which to explore HER. Highlights of the coming year include: • Music by Purcell, Handel and Haydn • Randall Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdom • The ever-popular Lessons & Carols by Candlelight • Back by popular demand: Composer Jocelyn Hagen and soprano Corinne Winters in a world premiere! • The Brahms Requiem • Carmina Burana! • And a new series: Close-Up! featuring solo artists of True Concord Welcome to True Concord’s 17th Season! HER Celebrating the Impact of Women on the World “Music can portray so much, from the divine feminine to the audacious game changer. Join us for a year of creativity, color, strength, emotion, rules and rule breaking as we explore HER with extraordinary music.” “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” - Timothy LearyA GRAMMY-nominated professional chamber choir and orchestra — Innovative programming — Intimate and acoustically excellent performances across the region — Voices and instrumentalists of the highest caliber from across the country — With a mission to create experiences that move, enrich and inspire! “The true republic: men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” - Susan B. Anthony “I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.” - Katharine Hepburn WE ARE TRUE CONCORDMUSIC FOR THE ROYAL SHE 23 – 25 OCTOBER True Concord Choir, Soloists & Orchestra Imagine courts and countries deciding who you were going to marry — sight unseen. Think of sailing through stormy seas to a distant shore, reaching land and walking with your new stranger-husband for miles. Finally, in slightly more royal style, a bumpy carriage reaches your new home — a large, cold castle. Hers was a life of power without self-determination. Jealousy, whispers, great responsibility and little freedom. At least she deserved a song! An important patron of Viennese music, Maria Theresa, the last Holy Roman Empress and the first Empress of Austria, was herself the soprano soloist at private court performances of Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons. Queen Mary made her mark in many ways: endowing hospitals and the College of William and Mary, influencing garden design, and popularizing blue and white porcelain and the keeping of goldfish as pets. The young princess Caroline traveled to Britain, making her only sea voyage to start her new life as Queen. Her safe arrival was celebrated by a composition that was later played at her funeral, welcoming her to heaven. Joseph Haydn - Theresienmesse for the Empress Maria Theresa Henry Purcell - Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, Z 338 George Frideric Handel - Te Deum for Queen Caroline Elegant — Regal A Jubilant Celebration! What did all these royal women have in common? Great composers and great music!“It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.” - Queen Elizabeth II Friday, October 23, 7:00pm Location TBA — Green Valley Saturday, October 24, 7:30pm Catalina Foothills High School Sunday, October 25, 3:00pm Location TBA The music of Nature from around the globe, including works by Brahms, Stanford, Whitacre and Randall Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdom MOTHER EARTH 13 – 15 NOVEMBER True Concord Choir, Soloists & Chamber Players Arresting and Glorious Randall Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdom is based on texts from the Old Testament and inspired by artist Edward Hicks’s renowned paintings that explore harmony and unity. “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.” - Text from inspiration for Hicks’s Paintings Fifty years ago, Senator Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day. In its first year, 20 million people participated in rallies around the world calling for a broad, inclusive vision of ecology that supports the well-being of all people and all creatures. Enjoy music that represents the essence of place — Asia to Africa, Australia to Antarctica — all seven continents of the globe. Celebrate the glorious beauty of Mother Earth and reflect on the need to care for her, our home. Today, we find ourselves universally aware of how we are linked — in our own country and throughout the globe — people to animals and to the earth itself. “Earth music,” complex yet pure, communicates the earth of its origin with the dissonance, harmony and energy of the natural world. Imbalance and balance in sound.Friday, November 13, 7:00pm Location TBA — Green Valley Saturday, November 14, 7:30pm Catalina Foothills High School Sunday, November 15, 3:00pm Location TBA Thursday, December 10, 7:30pm Location TBA Friday, December 11, 7:00pm Location TBA — Green Valley Saturday, December 12, 7:30pm Location TBA Sunday, December 13, 3:00pm Catalina United Methodist Church Sunday, December 13, 7:30pm Location TBA “True Concord knows how to do Christmas!” - Cathy Burch, Arizona Daily StarReverent — Jubilant LESSONS & CAROLS BY CANDELIGHT MARY’S GIFT 10 – 13 DECEMBER True Concord Choir, Guy Whatley, organ & Christine Vivona, harp True Concord continues its holiday tradition performed in some of the area’s most beautiful churches. This year, experience music inspired by Mary, mother of the Christ child. This is a gift to give yourself, family and friends. Mary was a young girl of about 14 when she gave birth to her son – and the child became her gift to humankind. Celebrate the beauty and mystery of a gift given fully from the heart — with the glow of candles, the velvet sound of voices and the community of people joined together through music. True Concord will perform old and new works for the season, including selections from its recent Christmas album. The critically heralded Christmas With True Concord: Carols in the American Voice reached No. 5 on Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart. Everyone will be invited to join the voices of True Concord in familiar and beloved carols. “A gorgeous blend of voices, exquisite phrasing, and track after track of good cheer.” - Brian Newhouse, Minnesota Public Radio The concert includes excerpts from Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28, scored for choir and harp. Next >