The Passing of the Year

Chester Festival Chorus, led by Joseph Judge, will perform a concert with the theme of time. Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year uses poems from Emily Dickinson, William Blake and Alfred Tennyson to explore themes of time passing through the seasons and the years. Dale Trumbore’s Stuck in the Middle explores similar themes of life passing as we busy ourselves with our daily activities. Mendelssohn’s beautiful Romantic-era Sechs Sprüche is a collection of 6 short anthems for the key days in the church year. JS Bach’s Wachet Auf (Awake! the voice calls to us) is perhaps his best known cantata. Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel has become a popular classic, and will be heard here in the version for solo piano and violin.