Sonorous Sagas

• Saturday, April 3 at 1 pm
  • First Lutheran Church, Tacoma (map)
  • Pre-register here
• Sunday, April 4 at 2 pm
  • Ballard First Lutheran Church (map)
  • Pre-register here
• Free with suggested donation
• Pre-registration suggested donation levels
  • $150 Full Season Supporter
  • $50 Supporter
  • $30 General
  • $20 Senior
  • $10 Student/Child

The sonorous sounds of the Icelandic Sagas will be on full display through music and spoken word. The epic world of the original Icelandic Vikings will ring through the sanctuary through chamber music by Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes as they expound upon their mutual past into the present. Excerpts from the sagas will be spoken in Old Norse (with translations) between music selections for piano, voice, narrator, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and cello in every combination.

Featuring:

• Timothy Bourns, narrator
• Rachelle Moss, contralto & narrator
• Laura Loge, soprano
• Jenna Calixto, flute
• Rachel Yoder, clarinet
• Yi-Ting Kuo, vioin
• Luke Fitzpatrick, viola
• Kumiko Chiba, cello
• Michelle Huang, piano
• Faith Foster, conductor

On the program:

• Arnljot Gelline by the Northern Sea by Gerard Tonning
• “Arnljot helsar Jämtland” and “Vainos sång” from Arnjot by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
• Bergljot by Edvard Grieg
• Sagan by Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson
• Ástarvísur úr Eddu op by Jón Leifs
• Four Icelandic Folksongs by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson
• Vatn by Veronique Vaka
• Gylfaginning by Þórður Magnússon

Concert duration: 75 – 90 min with brief intermission
Box office opens 45 minutes prior to concert
House opens 30 minutes prior to concert

Previous seasons have been supported by Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the American Guild of Organists Seattle Chapter, ArtsWA, the Jane Isakson Lea Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, and by individual donors like you.

If you would like to support this series and ensure its future, please donate here!