Volti, Robert Geary, conductor. 5/6/12 performance Volti: SOPRANO Yuhi Aizawa Combatti Lindsey McLennan Diana Pray TJ Togasaki Christa Tumlinson ALTO Marjorie Gömez Verah Graham Emily Ryan Celeste Winant Jessica Winn TENOR Artyom Chelba...  moreVolti, Robert Geary, conductor. 5/6/12 performance Volti: SOPRANO Yuhi Aizawa Combatti Lindsey McLennan Diana Pray TJ Togasaki Christa Tumlinson ALTO Marjorie Gömez Verah Graham Emily Ryan Celeste Winant Jessica Winn TENOR Artyom Chelbayev Michael Eisenberg Paul Ingraham Roderick Lowe Eric Tuan BASS Jeff Bennett Sidney Chen E.E. "Chip Grant IV Philip Saunders Cole Thomason-Redus Artistic Director: Robert Geeary Executive Director: Barbara Heroux Composer in Residence: Mark Winges Artistic Advisor: Sidney Chen Delusional Paths is a setting of five Stephen Crane poems concerned with paths and destinations. Here paths taken lead to unexpected places. Carefully considered goals prove to be illusive, unattainable, or not what they seemed. Expectations of preconceived outcomes prove futile ("I saw a man"), naively optimistic ("A learned man"), foolhardy ("There was set before me a mighty hill"), or at best unrealistic ("The wayfarer"). In "Once, I knew a fine song" the path is...    less

World premiere by the Volti Choir of San Francisco, Robert Geary, Artistic Director, May 15-17, 2009, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA. Life's tragedy Music by Robert Paterson Text by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Used With Permission. This is one move...  moreWorld premiere by the Volti Choir of San Francisco, Robert Geary, Artistic Director, May 15-17, 2009, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA. Life's tragedy Music by Robert Paterson Text by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Used With Permission. This is one movement of a three-movement work entitled Eternal Reflections, but may be performed as a stand-alone piece. For more information and to order sheet music, please visit www.robpaterson.com.  

World premiere performance by the Volti Choir of San Francisco under the direction of Robert Geary. Do not stand at my grave and weep Music by Robert Paterson / Text by Mary Elizabeth Frye. This is one movement of a three-movement work entitled Ete...  moreWorld premiere performance by the Volti Choir of San Francisco under the direction of Robert Geary. Do not stand at my grave and weep Music by Robert Paterson / Text by Mary Elizabeth Frye. This is one movement of a three-movement work entitled Eternal Reflections, but may be performed as a stand-alone piece. For more information and to order sheet music, please visit www.robpaterson.com.  

World premiere by the Volti Choir of San Francisco, Robert Geary, Artistic Director, May 15-17, 2009, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA. Song on The End of The World Music by Robert Paterson; Text by Czeslaw Milosz. Used with Permission. This is ...  moreWorld premiere by the Volti Choir of San Francisco, Robert Geary, Artistic Director, May 15-17, 2009, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA. Song on The End of The World Music by Robert Paterson; Text by Czeslaw Milosz. Used with Permission. This is one movement of a three-movement work entitled Eternal Reflections, but may be performed as a stand-alone piece. For more information and to order sheet music, please visit www.robpaterson.com.