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    Henry Mollicone's Flight Through the Stars, Sondra Clark's Requiem for Lost Children

    Henry Mollicone's Flight Through the Stars, Sondra Clark's Requiem for Lost Children

    San Jose Symphonic Choir

    March 21, 2009

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    San Jose Symphonic Choir presents a performance of two great works. Henry Mollicone's cantata, Flight Through the Stars, was commissioned by the San Jose Symphonic Choir in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage. Set to a thoroughly underwhelming libretto by Cory Wade, the work tries, with little success, to carry the notion of exploration into realms both scientific and philosophical. Depictions of Galileo's much-disputed discoveries in physics and taped excerpts of descriptions of the historic first moonwalk take Flight Through the Stars all over the map. Sondra Clark's critically acclaimed Requiem for Lost Children, written for the Kevin Collins Foundation for Missing Children, was premiered in November, 1996, in San Jose, CA and in Los Altos, CA by the San Jose Symphonic Choir and Orchestra. Scored for three soloists, mixedchoir, children's choir, and orchestra, the work was described by Paul Hertelendy (reviewer for San Jose Mercury News) as "a deeply stirring ... powerful amalgam of the old and the new, as revolutionary in its approach as the requierns of Johannes Brahms and Benjamin Britten were in their days."

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    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      March 21, 2009

      Times:
      8pm

    • Venue Info

      Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph

      80 S. Market Street San Jose, CA 95113

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