"Poetic Songs"

Carl Nielsen - Maskarade Overture
Mendelssohn - Psalm 42
Ralph Vaughan-Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem

The Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus - Cheryl Anderson, Choral Director
Anja Strauss, soprano

The season concludes with the orchestra’s time-honored collaboration with the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus. Following the brilliant Maskarade: Overture by Danish composer, Carl Nielsen, the chorus and orchestra perform Felix Mendelssohn’s extraordinarily beautiful Psalm 42. The concert concludes with Vaughan Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pacem,” which features the dramatic and timely poetry of Walt Whitman about the human costs of war and peace.