Choruses of UC Davis: “An American Holiday”

featuring Alturas Duo
Scott Hill, guitar
Carlos Boltes, churrango and viola
Gonzalo Cortés, Andean woodwinds

With the guest ensemble Alturas Duo, the Choruses of UC Davis and Nicolás Dosman bring the rhythms and holiday vocal traditions of the Americas (both Southern America and Northern America) to Davis. Works include “Navidad Nuestra” by Ariel Ramírez (an Andean influenced folk telling of the nativity story), Aaron Copland’s “Zion’s Walls” (drawn from Appalachian America’s hymnal traditions), and “Abreme la Puerta” (a traditional Christmastime song from Puerto Rico).

Program

Concert Choir

arr. Albert McNeil: Hold Out Your Light (with Chamber Singers)

Jeffrey Ames: Gloria Fanfare

Manuel de Sumaya: Albricias Mortales

Nunes Garcia: Cum Sancto Spiritu

Chamber Singers

arr. Cristian Grases: Abreme La Puerta

Andrea Ramsey: In The Bleak Midwinter

B.E Boykin: Dormi Jesu

Kenneth Lampl: Adon Olam

arr. Moses Hogan: Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn King 

Combined Choruses

Aaron Copland: Zion’s Walls

Allan Naplan: Al Shlosha D’Varim

Herbert Bittrich: Festejo de Navidad

Ariel Ramirez: Navidad Nuestra

$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Open Seating)

The award-winning Alturas Duo (along with Andean flute and woodwind specialist Gonzalo Cortés) delight working with orchestras and choral ensembles, and collaborating with composers in creating new and interesting repertoire. Bringing together the worlds of South American folk, western classical, and contemporary music, guitarist Scott Hill and violist and charango player Carlos Boltes have performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe as well as Central and South America to great acclaim. Praised by The Washington Post as playing with “marvelous virtuosity,” Alturas Duo takes its name from the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s poem, Alturas de Macchu Picchu. The English translation for Alturas means “heights.”