Music of Light "Canticle of the Sun" by Amy Beach

April 29, 2023
Concert Singers of Cary Symphonic Choir
Mallarmé Music - Orchestra
Nathan Leaf, Conductor
Soloists:
Kathryn Mueller (soprano)
Jennifer Beattie (mezzo-soprano)
Daniel Shirley (tenor)
David Faircloth (bass)
Westwood Baptist Church (200 Westhigh Street, Cary)
Amy Beach’s Canticle of the Sun is a rare find. She was the first highly successful American female composer of large-scale classical music during the turn of the 20th century and is well-known to professional musicians (though hardly known by today’s general public.) Her Canticle of the Sun, for choir and orchestra, offers a musical setting for text by St. Francis of Assisi, giving honor and blessings to “my Lord God with all His creatures.”
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