Sunday, June 1 at 3:30pm
Cedar Hill Baptist Church
12601 Cedar Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106
Reception to follow the performance.
Sponsored in part by a grant from the Maison Française de Cleveland, Night and Day will explore this theme in sacred and secular music across centuries and genres, in five different languages, including Camille Saint Saëns’ Deux Choeurs, selections from Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Robert Applebaum’s arrangement of the traditional Hebrew folk song “Ani ma’amin,” “Choose Something Like a Star” from Randall Thompson’s Frostiana, “Sure on this Shining Night” from Samuel Barber’s Four Songs, and Johannes Brahms’ rarely performed lament “Nänie.” The concert will also feature well-known favorites by Cole Porter and The King’s Singers.
In its twenty-second season, Western Reserve Chorale is a non-profit group of amateur and professional singers dedicated to bringing high-quality performances of choral music to Greater Cleveland. Freewill offering accepted. For more information, visit westernreservechorale.org.
David Gilson serves as the conductor and artistic director of the Western Reserve Chorale and director of music for the United Methodist Church of Chagrin Falls (OH). Previous conducting positions include Park Synagogue, Bethany Covenant Church, Allegheny Chapel Choir and Pathfinder Music Camp. He has served as guest conductor of the Singers’ Club of Cleveland, the University Circle Chorale and Chamber Choir, the CIM Singers, and as chorus master for CIM's Opera Department. He has served as Eurhythmics faculty for the Cleveland School of Ballet, Cleveland School of the Arts, Camp KLAVIER, CIM Summer Sonata program, as well as serving as a clinician at various colleges and schools in Northeast Ohio and Pennsylvania. As a vocalist, Dean Gilson has been heard in concerts, music theater and opera productions, and solo recitals in the Cleveland area as well as in Pennsylvania and Florida.
Mr. Gilson has served on the faculty at CIM since 1991 and currently teaches choral conducting and eurhythmics. Serving as the associate dean for Student Affairs, he also oversees the Colloquium and Senior Seminar classes. Dean Gilson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music, studying conducting and vocal performance, from Allegheny College. An alumnus of CIM, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Dalcroze Eurhythmics and a master’s degree in choral conducting.