The Raven Consort

Emily Noël, soprano
Jessica Cooper, soprano
Roger Isaacs, countertenor
Ryland Angel, tenor
Steven Berlanga, bass
Mark Cleveland, bass

The SPS Madrigal Singers
Mary Dolch, director

The Arneis Quartet
Heather Braun, violin
Rose Drucker, violin
Daniel Dona, viola
Agnes Kim, cello
Kate Foss, double bass
Nicholas White, piano/composer

THE RAVEN
Music by Nicholas White
Poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
1. Darkness
2. A Visitor
3. Lenore I
4. Nevermore
5. Lamp-Light
6. Lenore II
7. Prophet
8. Shadow

INTERMISSION

ON DREAMS ALONE
Music by Nicholas White
Poems by
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1844-1881)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
1. Overture
2. Dream-Love Interlude One
3. Ode (We Are The Music Makers)
4. Dream-Love Interlude Two
5. Twilight
6. Dream-Love Interlude Three
7. A Dream
8. Dream-Love Interlude Four
9. On Dreams Alone
10. Serenade
11. Dream-Love Interlude Five
12. Dream Land
13. Nightingales

Outstanding professional singers and instrumentalists team up with the SPS Madrigal Singers to give a reprise performance of Nicholas White’s highly-acclaimed musical drama, The Raven. Also featured will be the first performance of White’s richly romantic cycle, On Dreams Alone, in a newly-conceived version for soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra.

“I can’t remember a more enjoyable evening of music making. For anyone who loves both instrumental and vocal chamber music, it was an evening of sheer heaven in an acoustically ideal performing space. For contemporary serious music, “The Raven” was unusually accessible and yet always new and interesting. It deserves to be performed often, especially with these sensational artists.” (Roger Gilkeson, The Washington Post, February 2013.)