Masterworks Concert – Sacred Veil/Lost Birds

Echoes of Love and Loss: A Musical Tribute by Canyon Chorale and Guests

Join us for a concert featuring the Canyon Chorale, Critical Mass, with guest artists members of The Canyon Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Mark Fearey, piano and Dr. Juan de Dias Hernandez, music director and conductor.

This concert features two works that speak of the love and loss of life from two different perspectives. “The Lost Birds” is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and mournful, it’s a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies but whose songs have since been silenced. It celebrates their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it’s also a warning about our tenuous existence on the planet: the fate that befell these once-soaring flocks foreshadows our extinction.

Composer Eric Whitacre writes of his work: “The Sacred Veil” is a 12-movement work and the most recent collaboration between Eric Whitacre and poet/lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri telling a story of life, love, and loss. Silvestri’s wife, Julie, died of ovarian cancer at age 36 in 2005, leaving two young children. The intimate, compelling score tells a story of courtship, love, loss and the search for solace and includes Silvestri, Whitacre and Julie’s texts. Although inspired by this extraordinary friendship, the piece does not mention Julie by name and shares a human journey that so many of us can relate to.

No cost to attend!