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Voices of light was an evening of brilliant and moving music, which exceeded my expectations. The choir was balanced and the soloists fabulous. The combination of the music with the silent film worked brilliantly. A truly extraordinary evening.
Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent film, "The Passion of Joan of Arc," is a great modernist masterpiece, remarkably advanced in directions that foreshadow Ingmar Bergman, among others.. At the Chan Centre on July 22, it was accompanied by the music of an oratorio called "Voices of Light," by American Composer Richard Einhorn. This calls for a large chorus, four soloists, a second group of four women soloists and a chamber orchestra. While the performance by a Massachusetts-based group called the Berkshire Choral Society, the Vancouver-based National Broadcast Orchestra, the female vocal quartet Anonymous 4, and four excellent soloists (SATB) was very fine, the music disappointed. No doubt some may enjoy it, but I found it a trite combination of Philip Glass and Carl Orff, which are already tiresome enough, in my view. Just background music, which is all right for a film, but which may as well be recorded and put on a sound track, sparing all the expense,
The concert and film were fantastic. Great combination of vocal quartet,vocal soloists, choir and orchestra. The piece was a nice composition that could've used a little more dissonance. It was a little repetitive. Very well performed though. The Passion of Joan of Arc is truly a great film!!!! The screen was a little small for the venue. I thought that the lighting in the space should have been much lower.I found the lighting above the choir (stand lights) sometimes distracted me visually as did the conductor and soloists. I'm aware that it was a choral festival so I'm by no means upset. A real treat!
