UAB Choir and Orchestra to hold concert at the Theatre Hall

13/12/2018

As is tradition before the winter break, on 17 December the UAB Choir and Orchestra will offer a concert entitled "Escolteu el nostre clam" in which pieces of Edward Elgar, Ottorino Respighi, Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Xaver Gruber will be performed, as well as a selection of traditional songs. The event will take place at 2 p.m. at the Theatre Hall of the Plaça Cívica.

First the UAB Orchestra, under the direction of Jesús Badia, will play pieces by composers from the 19th and 20th centuries. This includes Edward Elgar's Salut d'amour, which focuses on the theme of love from its most innocent to its most passionate facet. And Ottorino Respighi's Antiche danze ed Arie per liuto, a re-interpretation of Renaissance music.

The UAB Choir, directed by Poire Vallvé, will continue the concert with songs from around the world, "Cançons d'arreu", including the Christmas carol Dindirindin, a very popular song from the 16th and 17th centuries; the Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain by Claude Debussy, based on a poem by Charles d'Orléans; Momigi, a Japanese song describing the trees in the autumn; the traditional Chinese song Zà nà yáo yuan de di fang;  Vuelie from the film Frozen; and the Brazilian song by Luiz Antônio and Jota Júnior, Lata d'água.

The concert will end with a joint performance by the choir and orchestra of Hör mein Bitten, a hymn by Felix Mendelssohn, in which the soprano Clara Florit will also sing, and Santa nit, by Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr, a Christmas carol declared intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO and which this year celebrates 200 years of existence.

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