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VOCES8
After Silence
Featuring Penn State Concert Choir
Christopher Kiver, director

7:30 pm Tuesday, October 12, 2021

The “eight beautifully integrated solo voices” (BBC Music Magazine) of Britain’s VOCES8 return to Penn State to perform After Silence, a program inspired by and named after an essay by Aldous Huxley. Penn State Concert Choir, directed by Christopher Kiver, will join the octet in concert.

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music,” Huxley writes. The most significant constituents of our being, he observes, include our responses to beauty, pleasure, pain, ecstasy, and death.

The choral works in After Silence are exalted, vital, and freed from their original contextual restraints and are distinguishable by their inexhaustible capacity to express the inexpressible.

The a cappella program includes works by Arvo Pärt, Thomas Tallis, Benjamin Britten, Claudio Monteverdi, Mumford & Sons, Nat “King” Cole, and others. 

“The singing of VOCES8 is impeccable in its quality of tone and balance. They bring a new dimension to the word ‘ensemble’ with meticulous timing and tuning,” writes a critic for Gramophone.

Touring extensively throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, the ensemble performs a repertory from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary commissions and arrangements.

The Center for the Performing Arts previously presented VOCES8 in 2016 at Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.

Complimentary parking for this concert will be provided at Nittany Parking Deck. Patrons with Penn State parking permits will be able to park unassisted. Attendees without Penn State parking permits will need to get a coupon, and instructions on how to use it, from a parking attendant when entering the deck. Complimentary parking WILL NOT be available at Eisenhower Parking Deck. Shuttle service WILL NOT be provided.

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Adult $46
University Park Student $15
18 and Younger $36

Penn State has issued rules and precautions that follow, or may exceed, guidance from the Centers for Disease Control issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit Penn State Event Attendance Policies prior to attending a University event to ensure you are familiar with the rules and expectations.
 

sponsors
Foxdale Village
Elinor C. Lewis
Pieter W. and Lida Ouwehand
Lam and Lina Hood

support provided by
Dotty and Paul Rigby Classical Music Endowment 

A grant from the University Park Student Fee Board makes Penn State student prices possible.
 

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Classical Coffeehouse
featuring VOCES8

8:00 pm Monday, October 11, 2021

Hintz Family Alumni Center’s Robb Hall

FREE for University Park and high school students *

The British vocal ensemble VOCES8 will perform excerpts of its After Silence program. The singers also will discuss their creative process.

Snacks and refreshments will be served. Seating is limited. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Standing room is available when seating is full.

Presented by the Center for the Performing Arts and the Penn State Alumni Association in partnership with the Blue & White Society, the PSU Music Service Club, and the Penn State Coffee Club.

sponsors
Foxdale Village
Elinor C. Lewis
Pieter W. and Lida Ouwehand
Lam and Lina Hood

* A $10 donation is suggested for each person who isn’t a Penn State student.

Penn State has issued rules and precautions that follow, or may exceed, guidance from the Centers for Disease Control issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit Penn State Event Attendance Policies prior to attending a University event to ensure you are familiar with the rules and expectations.