His music is receiving worldwide attention. He has received many commissions and prizes, has beenm Composer-in-Residence for the Grammy-award winning Phoenix (Arizona) Chorale, conducted by Charles Bruffy, and has been featured on PBS. He has also studied f ilm composition and scoring at the University of Southern California. Sunrise MassĬomposer Ola Gjeilo has earned degrees from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Royal College of Music, London, and the Juilliard School, New York.
Textual repetitions, especially of the onomatopoeic festina, “hurry,” create a playful urgency. The rapid-f ire antiphonal exchanges between the two groups return in the third section. By contrast, in the middle section, the two groups sing and play in unison, with restrained passion.
In the f irst section, each choir takes a turn at leading and answering the other. The whole piece is all of two and a half minutes in duration, and the choirs sing only the one sentence, but there are three structurally distinct sections, A-B-A, making a small but tasty musical sandwich. The music requires that the ensemble, both choir and orchestra, divide into two groups, collaborating with and opposing each other. One might expect a supplication for single-pointed prayer to be somber, but Vivaldi applies his signature sparkle in setting the second of these sentences, Domine ad adjuvandum me festina (“O Lord, make haste to help me”) to give us a zesty little gem of a piece. The supplicant recites these prefatory lines to implore the assistance of God in warding off distractions to prayer. Two Latin sentences introduce all the prayers of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church. Notes by Shulamit Hoffmann © 2013 Texts and Translations Domine ad adjuvandum me festina (3 minutes) The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass–Carol Barnett (b. (4 minutes) Maple Leaf Rag– Scott Joplin (1867-1917) (12 minutes) Down to the River to Pray–Traditional American, arranged by Sheldon Curry Kennedy at Madison Square Garden on November 25, 1963, Leonard Bernstein said: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” St Paul’s Suite (Op. At a United Jewish Appeal tribute to John F. Viva la Musica dedicates our performance of Sunrise Mass to the victims of the Boston bombing. Identity (Sanctus) & The Ground (Benedictus/Agnus Dei) (2.5 minutes) Sunrise Mass– Ola Gjeilo (b. Blue Skies, Blue Grass Concerts Spring 2013ĭomine ad adjuvandum me Festina (Psalm 69) RV 593–Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
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