Please join the members of InVocation for our fifth annual Spring Concert Series:

“It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity”

Come experience an entire summer in one concert! From the first flower of spring through heavy August air broken by a giant storm… From the morning sun on your face to the evening chirp of crickets in your back yard… From the crack of a bat to the splash of a fish… our 2011 Spring Concert Series is all about the sights, sounds, smells, and happenings of summer.


Come to enjoy some fun and fresh music
and to help support this Spring’s charity partner,
The Emergency Foodshelf Network.


There is no charge for admission to any of our concets,
but free-will donations will be solicited to benefit The Emergency Foodshelf Network.
For more information, visit our “Charity” page.



Concert Dates and Locations


Saturday, May 7 @ 7 pm
First Christian Church
2201 1st Ave S
Minneapolis
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Sunday, May 8 @ 4 pm
St Paul Reformation Lutheran Church
100 Oxford St N
St Paul
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Saturday, May 14 @ 7 pm
Calvary Lutheran Church
3901 Chicago Ave S
Minneapolis
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Sunday, May 15 @ 4 pm
Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church
511 Groveland Ave
Minneapolis
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Concert Program

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music & text: 13th c, anonymous

Flower Carol
Tempus Est Floridium
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Piae Cantiones, 1582

Night on the Prairies
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music: Daniel Pederson (b. 1971)
text: Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

The Wind in the Wheat
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music: Edwin Fissinger (1920-1990)
text: Jessamine Slaughter Burgum

Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain
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music & text: Joseph Shabalala (b. 1941)

Vocalise
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
arr. J. David Moore (b. 1962)

Varsha (Monsoon)
from The Six Seasons
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music & text: Vanraj Bhatia (b. 1927)

Heaven-Haven
from Ad majorem Dei gloriam
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music: Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
text: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

Fields of Gold
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music & text: Sting (b. 1951)
arr. Greg Jasperse

Down in the River to Pray
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traditional American hymn
arr. J. David Moore (b. 1962)

My Soul Is a River
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music: Ben Allaway (b. 1959)
text: Amos 5:24, adapt. Ben Allaway

El Grillo
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music & text: Josquin des Prez (c. 1440–1521)

Hotaru Koi
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trad. Japanese children’s song
arr. Ro Ogura (1916-1990); trans. David Larson

Spiders and Ants: Work Ethic
from the choral song cycle
Sitting on the Porch
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music: Carolyn Jennings (b. 1936)
text: Joan Wolf

Tres Cantos Nativos
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music and texts: Krao traditional
arr. Marcos Leite (1953–2002)

Medley: In the Good Old Summertime
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
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music: George Evans (1870-1915);
text: Ren Shields (1868-1913)
music: Albert Von Tilzer (1878-1956);
text: Jack Norworth (1879-1959)

Under the Sea
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music: Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
text: Alan Menken (b. 1949)
arr. Kirby Shaw




Accolades

Attendees of our previous concerts have had this to say:

  • “What delightful and fresh music!”

  • Beautiful voices, beautiful sound.

  • “Your harmonies were right on.”

  • Lovely — I liked the focus on beauty & multiculturalism.

  • Thank you so much for the audio treasure! I loved it — what talent!

  • The readings were so thought-provoking and reflective.

  • What a great way to welcome in Advent!

  • I’ll come again!





Song Samples

Click any of the links below to hear brief samples of InVocation in performance.

Comfort, Comfort [ MP3 audio clip ] ..... arr. John Ferguson
Conditor alme siderum [ MP3 audio clip ] ..... Tomás Luis de Victoria
What Sweeter Music [ MP3 audio clip ] ..... Mark G. Sirett




Past Concerts

To view information about our Christmas 2010 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Spring 2010 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Christmas 2009 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Spring 2009 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Christmas 2008 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Spring 2008 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Christmas 2007 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Spring 2007 concerts, click here.

To view information about our Christmas 2006 concerts, click here.



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