Princeton University Glee Club | Walter L. Nollner Memorial Concert
The annual Walter L. Nollner Memorial Concert features a program spanning centuries of choral repertoire: from George Frideric Handel's earliest surviving autograph, Dixit Dominus, HWV 232, to John Tavener's Total Eclipse composed in 1999.
John Tavener’s ability to arrest the listener’s ear is nowhere more apparent than in the extraordinary opening pages of Total Eclipse. The work, Tavener tells us, is an esoteric contemplation on the word metanoia – meaning ‘change of mind’ or ‘conversion’ – and Tavener uses the conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus in order to give the work structure and meaning." -Gramophone
The concert also includes Gaanam, a new work that explores Carnatic (South Indian classical) music and features texts that celebrate the voice, composed by Princeton senior Shruthi Rajasekar, who was recently awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.