A Mosaic of What We Hold Dear, through Filipino, Austronesian, & European Music

By Choral Arts Northwest

• Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7:30 PM (Northwest Boychoir will not be performing at this concert)
  First Congregational Church Bellevue, 11061 NE 2nd St, Bellevue, WA 98004
• Sunday, May 18, 2025, 3 PM
  St. Mark’s Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98102

Choral music from Southeast Asia, Europe, and the U.S. converge to celebrate who and what we cherish in life, from childhood play to lifelong love. This musical journey spans from the Italian Renaissance, through the Baroque and Romantic eras, to acclaimed composers living in the Philippines, U.S., and Taiwan. Music for double chorus by J. S. Bach (Singet dem Herrn) invokes a joyful spirit of listening and dialogue. We find delight and comfort in nature’s winds, rustling in Claudio Monteverdi’s Ecco mormorar l’onde and Ily Matthew Maniano’s Amihan, which depicts refreshing tropical trade winds. We relish in harvest and home in Taiwanese Indigenous folksongs arranged by Tsai Yu-Shan and music of safe dwelling by Johannes Brahms. Children’s games tease us and young love sparkles in settings by Maniano, Choi, and Alec Powell. And sublime choral beauty suspends us, as we hold our loved ones near at heart, with Nilo Alcala’s setting of his mother’s poetry, “I am here with you always.”

With Collaborative Artists:

• Serena Chin, piano/continuo organ
• Ross Gilliland, violone
• Northwest Boychoir Apprentices (May 18 only)

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