Sacred and Secular
Santa Cruz Chorale Spring concert celebrates Vaughan Williams
T
he Santa Cruz Chorale will pay homage to renowned English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in concerts on June 8 and 9. The Chorale will perform Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G Minor and several of his muchloved compositions based on English folk songs and motets. The group will also perform works from composers who inspired Vaughan Williams, including Bull, Byrd, Gibbons, Morley, Parry and Purcell. Vaughan Williams was one of the first major 20th century composers to emphasize England, rather than Europe, in
his music. In the early 1900s he began travelling the English countryside collecting, transcribing and arranging folk songs and carols, many of which he incorporated into his own compositions. “Chorale� page 25
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