The Far West

Special Guests:
Lawrence Wiliford, tenor
Luminous String Ensemble

Composers:
Jesse Plessis
Sonny-Ray Day Rider
Zachary Wadsworth

New works by Southern Alberta composers Jesse Plessis and Sonny-Ray Day Rider are featured alongside a reprise of Zachary Wadsworth’s The Far West. Premiered by Luminous Voices in 2014, The Far West won the National Choral Award for "Outstanding Choral Composition" from Choral Canada in 2016. Tim Dlugos texts for The Far West inspire rich and powerful music from Wadsworth, who describes them as charting “a trajectory from disease and darkness to reconciliation and light… The ending is not a happy one, but it’s a hopeful one.”

Presented by: Luminous Voices

Genre: Choral