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To open its 20th anniversary season, Seraphic Fire explores the juxtaposition and intersection of love and war.
A perfectly blended 13-voice choir, conducted by Patrick Dupre Quigley, will serenade patrons alongside a string quartet and harpsichord. This elegantly constructed program strikes the perfect balance, featuring celebrated classics and weaving in exciting, contemporary compositions.
Paul Crabtree’s When David Heard sets the tragic Biblical love story of David sending his son Absalom to war in aching contrast with disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law’s exclamations upon meeting Catholic victims of abuse. Peace comes in human form in Ileana Perez Velazquez’s Tu Paz Mia, a Seraphic Fire-commissioned work. With groundbreaking and gorgeous counterpoint, selections from Claudio Monteverdi’s Madrigals of War and Love round out the program.
Join in for a Pre-Concert Conversation one hour before each performance.
Performances are Thursday, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, 2401 SW Third Ave., Miami, and Friday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m., at Church of the Little Flower, 2711 Indian Mound Trail, Coral Gables.
Tickets and subscriptions are on sale now at SeraphicFire.org/tickets and by phone at 305-285-9060.
“We try to make our audiences proud of us and do better each year than we did before,” said Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor. “This season, Seraphic Fire is performing a whole host of music we have never done before, to include world premieres and commissioned work.”
Program:
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel — Sea Drift*
Crabtree, Paul — When David Heard+
Monteverdi, Claudio — Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi * (selections)
Perez Velazquez, Ileana^ — Tu Paz Mia+
Williams, Roderick — Love Bade Me Welcome*
^ Commissioned with the support of a generous gift from William Jaume.
* Seraphic Fire Premiere
+ Seraphic Fire Second Performance
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