Songs Along the Road We Share
Saturday, May 16
3:30
Sunday, May 17
3:30
Solvang Veterans’ Memorial Hall
1745 Mission Drive
Solvang, CA
Journey: Songs Along the Road We Share uses the road as a metaphor for life — the colorful byways we take, the memories we create together, and the paths we choose that shape who we become. In works by giants of the choral repertoire, such as Aaron Copland, Ola Gjeilo, and Randall Thompson, we travel a broad highway that includes the hopes of springtime in the Medieval Cuckoo Song, Sumer is Icumen In, to soft and summery Days of Beauty by Emily Bronte. We share a bit of everyday fun in I Bought Me a Cat, then cross over into the fierce Gospel song Ain’t No Grave. We even travel down Manhattan Transfer’s iconic Route 66 — in a jazz-infused celebration of the great American road trip westward — before landing in a triumphant place of joy and hope with Climb Every Mountain and Ad Astra (To the Stars).