Fri, Dec 10
|Walla Walla University
Poulenc: Gloria
Soprano soloist for Poulenc's brilliant setting of the mass texts, a captivating mix of solemnity and mischievous exuberance.
Time & Location
Dec 10, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST
Walla Walla University, 212 SW 4th St, College Place, WA 99324, USA
About the Event
(Two performances: 6:00 & 8:00 pm) Commissioned by the Koussevitsky Foundation of America, Poulenc's Gloria sets mass texts to music of an unmistakable freshness and vivacity. Of the Gloria, Poulenc said that ‘...while writing it I had in mind those Crozzoli frescoes with angels sticking out their tongues, and also some solemn-looking Benedictine monks that I saw playing football one day.’ Fittingly, his Gloria is a brilliant and captivating setting of the mass texts, expressed both with solemnity and mischievous exuberance. Free to the public. Learn more
(description adapted from John Bawden)