Event Details
DĒLECTŌ - the reimagined canticlethe dialogue around love
Hosting Ensemble: The Esoterics
Event Type: Concert
Event Website: http://www.theesoterics.org/concerts/season-2018/delecto%E2%80%A8-the-dialogue-around-love
Ticket Prices: $25 general ($22 in advance); $18 students/seniors ($15 in advance)
Event Dates:
Friday, February 9, 2018Feb 9, 2018, 8:00pm at Holy Rosary Church, Seattle, WA
Saturday, February 10, 2018Feb 10, 2018, 8:00pm at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA
Sunday, February 11, 2018Feb 11, 2018, 7:00pm at Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma, WA
Description
DĒLECTŌ will feature three works, including two world-premiere commissions.
Love, a short work by Rodney Sharman setting a verse by 17-century poet George Sandys.
This is how you love, a commission from Timothy Takach and Jocelyn Hagen, setting poems and excerpted transcripts from couples counseling.
The river of love, Eric Banks' commission - a wedding gift from Robert Alexander to his wife Ali - setting couplets by the 14th-century Sufi poet Amir Khusro.
DĒLECTŌ - the reimagined canticle
Ensemble Photos
The Esoterics. Photo by Jonathan You (Dec 2023)