Imagination & Dreams DTC 25th Anniversary Season Finale

The Don Thompson Chorale's 25th Anniversary Season Finale
"Imagination & Dreams"
Music Director - Adam Hooper
Collaborative Pianist - Terry Stuckey
Spoken Word Artist - Rhonda Stansberry

0:00 - Oremus - Urmas Sisask
(with interstellar Soundscape by Adam Hooper)
Meaning “Let us pray”, Oremus is commonly heard in a traditional Latin mass, inviting members of the congregation to tune their hearts and minds to a deeper channel of sending and receiving prayer. Urmas Sisask was an Estonian composer of sacred chant-like music inspired by a love for astronomy. His analysis of planetal trajectories helped him discover the Kumayoshi pentatonic scale, C#, D, F#, G#, A. Urmas Sisask died unexpectedly this past December 17th, 2022.

In honor of his life, his oeuvre, and the many similarities of fascination, music director, Adam Hooper, has composed a soundscape using NASA audio recordings along with futuristic choral voicings to create captivating celestial overtones. Close your eyes and be transported to the surface of Mars, traveling along the rocky surface with the Perseverance rover, and hovering miles above the surface of Jupiter to capture the first ever alien thunderstorms.

4:50 - Pure Imagination - arr. Matthew Nielsen
10:30 - Punctuality - Norman Luboff
11:05 - Across the Universe - John Lennon & Paul McCartney, arr. Adam Podd/ soloists: Linda Edwards - Soprano, Ian Bula - Tenor, Will Strassberger - Baritone
17:00 - Flight Song - Kim André Arnesen
20:30 - Sing Me to Heaven - Daniel Gawthrop
24:40 - The Impossible Dream
30:25 - That Lonesome Road - arr. Simon Carrington
34:03 - Two Heads - Norman Luboff
35:05 - Edelweiss - Rodgers and Hammerstein
37:50 - Aftonen - Hugo Alfvén
45:40 - To Sit and Dream - Text by Langston Hughes, Music by Rosephanye Powell
50:25 - Hymn and Prayer for Peace - Don Gillis