This Event is postponed due to COVID-19
Vancouver Cantata Singers, led by Paula Kremer, will be presenting Iman Habibi’s Colour of Freedom as part of their The Peaceable Kingdom: Songs of Earth program on April 18th, 2020. Amir Haghighi will sing the solo part with the choir.
The concert will also include music by Randall Thompson and Veljo Tormis.
Spiritus Chamber Choir, led by Timothy Shantz, will be joined by tenor Amir Haghighi in a performance of my choral piece, The Colour of Freedom in Calgary. Originally written for the Vancouver Peace Choir and tenor Amir Haghighi, this piece is set to Farsi poetry by Baba Taher and English poetry by Marina Nemat, and is a raw reaction to the 2009 protests in Iran that saw the death and imprisonment of dozens of Iranian protesters.
Tickets are available through Spritus Chamber Choir‘s website.
University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Eugene Rogers, director
presents:
ECHOES is a celebration of the past and future. University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club concludes their celebration of the University’s bicentennial and their director Dr. Eugene Rogers’ final season with the group. The MGC will perform a retrospective concert of past pieces performed and new works that look to the future. The program includes two new works that celebrate the University “This Ring of Echoes” by Theodore Morrison (Megan Levad, poet) and Kristin Kuster’s “Michigan Unite” along with a premiere of a new work “Out of the Cradle” by Iman Habibi which bids a fond farewell to times gone by and looks to the future. Other works include: Benjamin Britten’s “Ballad of the Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard,” Francis Poulenc’s “Petites prières de Saint-François d’Assise,” Daniel Elder’s “Ballade to the Moon,”Rollo Dilworth’s “Harriet Tubman,” J. David Moore’s “Bound for the Promise Land”, James Erb’s “Shenandoah,” John Legend’s “Glory” and much more.
About the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Founded in 1859, The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club is one of the oldest collegiate choruses in the United States and long acclaimed as one of the finest male choruses in the world. The Glee Club is known for its wide repertoire of music that incorporates selections from different musical styles and periods including Renaissance motets, Romantic anthems, opera choruses, folksongs, spirituals, contemporary works, and, of course, Michigan songs. Since the beginning of Dr. Rogers’ tenure in 2011, the club has premiered over twenty new arrangements and compositions.
University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Eugene Rogers, director
presents:
ECHOES is a celebration of the past and future. University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club concludes their celebration of the University’s bicentennial and their director Dr. Eugene Rogers’ final season with the group. The MGC will perform a retrospective concert of past pieces performed and new works that look to the future. The program includes two new works that celebrate the University “This Ring of Echoes” by Theodore Morrison (Megan Levad, poet) and Kristin Kuster’s “Michigan Unite” along with a premiere of a new work “Out of the Cradle” by Iman Habibi which bids a fond farewell to times gone by and looks to the future. Other works include: Benjamin Britten’s “Ballad of the Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard,” Francis Poulenc’s “Petites prières de Saint-François d’Assise,” Daniel Elder’s “Ballade to the Moon,”Rollo Dilworth’s “Harriet Tubman,” J. David Moore’s “Bound for the Promise Land”, James Erb’s “Shenandoah,” John Legend’s “Glory” and much more.
About the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Founded in 1859, The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club is one of the oldest collegiate choruses in the United States and long acclaimed as one of the finest male choruses in the world. The Glee Club is known for its wide repertoire of music that incorporates selections from different musical styles and periods including Renaissance motets, Romantic anthems, opera choruses, folksongs, spirituals, contemporary works, and, of course, Michigan songs. Since the beginning of Dr. Rogers’ tenure in 2011, the club has premiered over twenty new arrangements and compositions.
University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Eugene Rogers, director
presents:
ECHOES is a celebration of the past and future. University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club concludes their celebration of the University’s bicentennial and their director Dr. Eugene Rogers’ final season with the group. The MGC will perform a retrospective concert of past pieces performed and new works that look to the future. The program includes two new works that celebrate the University “This Ring of Echoes” by Theodore Morrison (Megan Levad, poet) and Kristin Kuster’s “Michigan Unite” along with a premiere of a new work “Out of the Cradle” by Iman Habibi which bids a fond farewell to times gone by and looks to the future. Other works include: Benjamin Britten’s “Ballad of the Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard,” Francis Poulenc’s “Petites prières de Saint-François d’Assise,” Daniel Elder’s “Ballade to the Moon,”Rollo Dilworth’s “Harriet Tubman,” J. David Moore’s “Bound for the Promise Land”, James Erb’s “Shenandoah,” John Legend’s “Glory” and much more.
About the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Founded in 1859, The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club is one of the oldest collegiate choruses in the United States and long acclaimed as one of the finest male choruses in the world. The Glee Club is known for its wide repertoire of music that incorporates selections from different musical styles and periods including Renaissance motets, Romantic anthems, opera choruses, folksongs, spirituals, contemporary works, and, of course, Michigan songs. Since the beginning of Dr. Rogers’ tenure in 2011, the club has premiered over twenty new arrangements and compositions.
University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Eugene Rogers, director
presents:
ECHOES is a celebration of the past and future. University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club concludes their celebration of the University’s bicentennial and their director Dr. Eugene Rogers’ final season with the group. The MGC will perform a retrospective concert of past pieces performed and new works that look to the future. The program includes two new works that celebrate the University “This Ring of Echoes” by Theodore Morrison (Megan Levad, poet) and Kristin Kuster’s “Michigan Unite” along with a premiere of a new work “Out of the Cradle” by Iman Habibi which bids a fond farewell to times gone by and looks to the future. Other works include: Benjamin Britten’s “Ballad of the Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard,” Francis Poulenc’s “Petites prières de Saint-François d’Assise,” Daniel Elder’s “Ballade to the Moon,”Rollo Dilworth’s “Harriet Tubman,” J. David Moore’s “Bound for the Promise Land”, James Erb’s “Shenandoah,” John Legend’s “Glory” and much more.
About the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
Founded in 1859, The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club is one of the oldest collegiate choruses in the United States and long acclaimed as one of the finest male choruses in the world. The Glee Club is known for its wide repertoire of music that incorporates selections from different musical styles and periods including Renaissance motets, Romantic anthems, opera choruses, folksongs, spirituals, contemporary works, and, of course, Michigan songs. Since the beginning of Dr. Rogers’ tenure in 2011, the club has premiered over twenty new arrangements and compositions.
My wonderful friends at DaCapo Chamber Choir, led by conductor/composer Leonard Enns, will be joining soloist Amir Haghighi to give two performance of my piece, Colour of Freedom, in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario.
November 12th, 3pm, St. John’s Lutheran, Waterloo, ON
My wonderful friends at DaCapo Chamber Choir, led by conductor/composer Leonard Enns, will be joining soloist Amir Haghighi to give two performance of my piece, Colour of Freedom, in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario.
November 11th, 8pm, St. John the Evangelist, Kitchener, ON
DaCapo Chamber Choir, conducted by Leonard Enns, will perform Black Riders as part of a concert called O, Canada! celebrating music written by Canadian composers.
University of Michigan Chamber Choir, conducted by Jerry Blackstone, will perform Iman Habibi’s The Rose of Midnight, winner of 2016 Brehm Prize for Choral Composition, and the Godfrey Ridout award from the SOCAN Foundation.
The Rose of Midnight is based on a poem of the same name by Vachel Lindsay. It was commissioned by The Esoterics in 2013, as part of the prize for winning the international category of their POLYPHONOS competition. It was written for a concert named “Eternity,” celebrating the work of poets who took their own lives.