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A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert (DVD)

A Company of Voices
Conspirare in Concert. 2009.
CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON, Artistic Director
with Bion Tsang, cello, and Thomas Burritt, percussion

Recorded October 12, 2008
at the Long Center for the Performing Arts
Conducted by Craig Hella Johnson (CHJ)

DVD Harmonia Mundi HMD 9907535. Also on CD.
(56 min + 38 min. bonus features)
A production of KLRU-TV in association with Conspirare
“A Company of Voices” marks Conspirare’s national television debut. This CD includes eighteen songs that take the audience on a journey of innovative sound, vibrant images and thought-provoking ideas and offers a message of love, hope and transformation.

*INCLUDES THESE BONUS FEATURES*

  1. Conversations: Craig Hella Johnson (with Midge Woolsey)
  2. Reflections: Conspirare (Conspirare singers share experiences)
  3. Behind the Scenes (still photos)
  4. Stage Backdrop Images

DVD Track List

  1. Sure on This Shining Night (Morten Lauridsen)
  2. Let the River Run (Carly Simon, arr. CHJ)
  3. The Water is Wide (traditional, arr. CHJ)
  4. Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan)
  5. Will There Really Be a “Morning”? (Craig Hella Johnson)
  6. Light of a Clear Blue Morning (Dolly Parton, arr. CHJ)
  7. Agnus Dei, excerpt (Samuel Barber)
  8. Gabriel’s Oboe (Ennio Morricone), Bion Tsang, cello/ Ian Davidson, oboe
  9. Soneto de la Noche (Morten Lauridsen)
  10. What If (Eric Whitacre)
  11. Requiem (Eliza Gilkyson, arr. CHJ)
  12. 1000 Beautiful Things (Annie Lennox, arr. CHJ)
  13. Triptych, excerpt from III. Each shall rise (Tarik O’Regan)
  14. I Love You (Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, arr. CHJ)/What a Wonderful World (Robert Thiele, George David Weiss, arr. CHJ)
  15. The First of My Lovers (Sydney Carter, arr. CHJ)


*PLUS THESE BONUS MUSIC TRACKS*

  1. Collage (arr. CHJ): Wayfarin’ Stranger (traditional)/You’re No Good (Clint Ballard, Jr.)/De Profundis (chant)/See My Eyes (Andrew Lloyd Webber)/Crying (Joe Melson, Roy Orbison)/Drop, Drop Slow Tears (Orlando Gibbons)
  2. Deep River (spiritual, arr. Roy Ringwald)
  3. When I Fall in Love (Edward Herman, arr. CHJ)/Nearer My God to Thee (Lowell Mason, arr. CHJ)


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