Cultivating Hope

Presented by Peninsula Women's Chorus

Peninsula Women's Chorus presents "Cultivating Hope"

PWC’s winter concert fuels the flame of hope with a rich selection of international holiday songs celebrating Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Noche Buena, interwoven with songs of light, faith, and survival. Join us in cultivating hope through works that connect us to traditions, practices, histories, and wisdom, revealing the ever-present possibilities around us.

Experience the hope through PWC classics such as the vocal arrangement of “New World Symphony” from Song of SurvivalJ.S. Bach’s intimate “Suscepit Israel,” and our Composer-in-Residence, Amy X Neuburg’s poignant “Before I Forget.” See the light in Morten Lauridsen’s luminously serene “Sure on this Shining Night,” Joan Szymko’s reflective “Only Light, Only Love,” and Anton Bruckner’s soaring “Os Justi,” arranged for treble voices by PWC’s Artistic Director Anne Hege.

Don’t miss your chance to hear Bay Area composer Eric Tuan’s rousing “Ain’t I A Woman?” from his four-part set A Great Cloud of Witnesses and the world premiere of the treble arrangement of Los Angeles composer Saunder Choi’s “Meet Me for Noche Buena.” Bound to be a new holiday classic, this vibrant work depicts the joyous and colorful celebrations of Noche Buena, with poetry by San Mateo’s former Poet Laureate, Aileen Cassinetto.

Join us for a glorious and uplifting concert!

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City: Santa Clara
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General $30, Premium $50, Young Audience $10, Pay-What-You-Wish (until 10/31)
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Program Items

Bernice Johnson Reagon Seven Principles
Antonín Dvořák, arr. Margaret Dryburgh, ed. Patricia Hennings New World Symphony
Elizabeth Alexander Faith is the Bird that Feels the Light
Amy X Neuburg Before I forget
Anton Bruckner, arr. Anne K. Hege Os Justi
15th Cent. French melody, arr. Zachary D. Steele Veni, Emmanuel!
J.S. Bach Suscepit Israel from Magnificat in D Maj.
Eric Tuan Ain't I a Woman?
Jake Runestad Rise Up
Robert Stern Adon Olam
Anne K. Hege Vocal Fantasy
Gustav Holst Ave Maria
Joan Szymko Only Light, Only Love
Saunder Choi Meet Me for Noche Buena
Morten Lauridsen Sure on this Shining Night
Franz Gruber, arr. John Rutter, SSAA voicing Pat Parr Silent Night

Performers

Anne K. Hege Artistic Director
Anne Rainwater Collaborative Pianist
Peninsula Women's Chorus

Mission Santa Clara de Asís

Mission Santa Clara de Asís

500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
United States

500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053. Located on the grounds of Santa Clara University.