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VISIONS: an a cappella concert
was held at CHIJMES Hall on 9th June 1997
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To view the photos of the
concert VISIONS: an a cappella concert, you can click on the photographs below.
Hoping to be an annual performance, VISIONS
is a project aspiring to expose as well as educate the music audience in Singapore to the
various forms of non-secular, religious and sacred a cappella music that are in abundance.
The emerging choral scene in Singapore today is largely
preoccupied with much 'pop' and rock arrangements. Many a cappella groups focus their
energies on this up-beat and trendy form of music that is both highly gratifying and
zestful. However, there is little attention devoted to the heterogeneity of existing
sacred and religious choral repertoire.
As such, this concert hopes to inspire the audience with a
variance of choral works ranging from 19th century Renaissance classics such as
Locus Iste by Anton Bruckner and Kodaly's Ave Maria to
light-hearted Negro spirituals such as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by David
L. Brunner to Mark Hayes' He's Got the Whole World in His Hand.
Many of these compositions have provided the community with a source of
hope and inspiration such as the Negro spirituals.
The four groups
that have performed in the concert have either been in the choral scene for a significant
time or have had previous choral experiences. Each with its own unique tone quality as
well as methodology, this concert has however, brought them together in hope not only to
reaffirm the voice as a wondrous and flexible instrument in making mellifluous harmony but
also as a tool of worship and praise. Many of the groups hope not only to inspire you but
also to help spread the message of God, as their composers would have it be, through the
interpretation and performance of these pieces.
Delight then, in the night of sacred music... the night of VISIONS.
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to read more about the performing groups.
[ Visions I ] [ Visions II ]
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