VAE Season 33, 2012-2013

Sound equals emotions. Subtle shades of colors, like our ever-evolving feelings. The
journey continues with VAE Season 33.

Please join us. Tickets available online or at the door. Subscriptions go on sale Sept. 1, 2012.

33.1: A Procession Winding Around Me

Sunday, October 7, 3:00 p.m., Memorial Hall (Over-the-Rhine)

VAE welcomes guest conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, leader of Miami's Grammy-nominated ensemble, Seraphic Fire. Featuring Morten Lauridsen’s lushly romantic Midwinter Songs, the electrifying minimalism of Ingram Marshall’s Hymnodic Delays, and Jeffrey Van’s A Procession Winding Around Me, for guitar and choir. Quigley’s virtuosic handling of this eclectic literature has established him as one of today’s most exciting choral conductors.

33.2 A Candlelit Christmas

Saturday, December 15, 7:30 p.m., St. Boniface Catholic Church, Northside
Sunday, December 16, 5:00 p.m., St. Francis De Sales Church, East Walnut Hills

Following the overwhelming response to last year’s Candlelit Christmas concert, VAE invites you to join us once again for this Cincinnati holiday tradition. Joining VAE this season is the celebrated Cincinnati Boychoir, VAE’s Artistic Partner for the 2012–2013 Season, presenting cherished holiday music by candelight. Christopher Eanes conducts what will be unforgettable evenings of music.

33.3 The Divine Feminine

Sunday, January 13, 7:30 p.m., Christ Church Cathedral, Downtown

Craig Hella Johnson shows us why his Austinbased ensemble Conspirare is one of the nation’s most celebrated choral ensembles. “The divine feminine” is the theme for his first appearance with VAE, featuring a 17thcentury Magnificat of Jan Sweelinck, Benjamin Britten’s gorgeous Hymn to St. Cecilia, the regional premiere of 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts’ To Touch the Sky, and a collection of traditional spirituals — not to be missed.

33.4 Elmer Thomas Founder’s Concert: At the Waterbrook

Sunday, May 5, 2:00 p.m., First Covenant Presbyterian Church, Downtown

• Tickets for the 2:00 performance available here.

• Tickets for the 7:30 performance at the Anderson Center, Anderson, available from the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, ccocincinnati.org.

Music Director Donald Nally leads our annual collaboration with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Covering two hundred years of choral riches and displaying the extraordinary talent within our ensemble: Handel’s virtuosic masterpiece Dixit Dominus, Britten’s compelling Cantata misericordium, and Mendelssohn’s stirring Psalm 42: Wie der Hirsch schreit. High expectations surround this rare opportunity to experience these combined forces once again.