“The course of true love never did run smooth.” So said Lysander in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. On April 12 and 13, AURA Chamber Choir will produce evidence to that truth in the form of its spring concert Love and Fate.

The first half of the program offers a miscellany of songs about love. There’s sweet and tender love here, to be sure, but much else: seduction, deceit, and infidelity, love that is ending or cannot begin.

The second half of the program is a selection of some of our favourite numbers from Carl Orff’s masterpiece Carmina Burana. In the 1930’s Orff discovered a collection of Medieval Latin and German poetry that had been found in the Benedictine abbey of Beuern in 1803, poetry that celebrates the the return of spring, love, and the power of Fate and its mistress, “Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi”. The inspired composer produced a modern work that evokes an ancient and folkloric music of terrific vigour—a sort of German answer to Stravinky’s Rite of Spring and Les Noces.

Assisted by an ensemble of 11 players from the community and soprano soloist Sophia Friesen, AURA will demonstrate definitively that in springtime, Love and Fate walk hand in hand.

Date: Saturday, April 12 at 7 pm and Sunday, April 13 at 2 pm
Location:  Peace Lutheran Church, 1204 30 Avenue, Vernon

Tickets available through the Ticket Seller website.

Please join us for a reception following each concert.