Saint Louis Chamber Chorus :opposites Attract" Love Conquers Hate

Close to Saint Valentine’s Day, the Chamber Chorus offers a program that celebrates the intensity of human emotions that are love and hate, feelings that are often parallels. The ancient Roman poet Catullus explores this contrast in a short poem, “Odi et Amo,” which is heard in three versions from the Renaissance to the present day. Another contemporary composer, Francis Pott from England, delves into the consuming power of love upon our senses in a song cycle he wrote for the Chorus back in 2017. Its title, “Ardor Amoris,” is taken from a Latin poem set by Orlandus Lassus in 1570, of which the Chorus gives the St. Louis première. A past commission by another English composer, Sasha Johnson Manning, blends ancient and modern verses, and demonstrates the Chamber Chorus’s signature style of ‘double choir singing.’ Similarly, “Tonight I Dance Alone” was written for the choir in 2017, and tells of the enduring love between spouses, with Swedish composer Mårten Jansson setting a new poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri. Finally, the Australian composer, Melissa Dunphy, offers a second arrangement of a Trent Reznor song for Nine Inch Nails. “Right Where It Belongs” is a companion piece to her previous treatment of Reznor’s  “Hurt,” and it will receive its first performance at the February 16 concert.

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