# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Heavens Full of Stars: Music of Ēriks Ešenvalds
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm – Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Oregon Repertory Singers audiences are well aware of the beauty and power of the music of Ēriks Ešenvalds. His setting of Sara Teasdale’s Stars for choir and tuned wine glasses, which ORS sings every year at Glory of Christmas, creates the indelible feeling of floating in the heavens surrounded by music. 

Oregon Repertory Singers is lucky to have a long and productive relationship with Ēriks Ešenvalds. In 2012 ORS became the first American choir to host this inspiring composer for the United States premiere of Passion and Resurrection. In the years since, Ešenvalds has become one of the most prominent choral composers in the world. We are honored to host him in Portland again for the Northwest premieres of several of his major works including In Paradisum for choir, viola, and cello; Seneca’s Zodiac (on a text by the Roman Stoic poet); and three new works using texts by Oregon’s poet laureate emerita, Paulann Petersen.

“I have often thought of the tonal music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as being the music of human construction, with major and minor chords representing the lines and blocks we construct to depict order within nature. Ešenvalds’ expanded tonality, though it includes dissonant tones, sounds to me even more consonant than major and minor, something like the next dimension of construction. Perhaps these are the harmonies of the Fibonacci sequence, the sounds of the spiral, or the way in which nature orders itself that remains beyond complete human comprehension. Perhaps this is why it works equally well to depict the wonder of human feelings when translating the divinity of nature into oneself or when encountering the divine in a religious context. Ešenvalds’ ability to write this music is a rare gift, one that allows us to be transformed, translated by the beauty and complexity of his compositions. Lucky, lucky us.”
 
- Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director



Noteworthy pieces to be performed:
Stars (as heard on the acclaimed ORS album “50”)
In Paradisum
Seneca’s Zodiac
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/heavens-full-of-stars-music-of-Ēriks-ešenvalds/200027352723124
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 16

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: First United Methodist Church PDX
- **lat**: 45.517264052848
- **long**: -122.69333587844
- **full address**: First United Methodist Church PDX, 1838 SW Jefferson St,Portland, Oregon, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Heavens Full of Stars: Music of Ēriks Ešenvalds being held?
  - **A:** Heavens Full of Stars: Music of Ēriks Ešenvalds takes place on Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm at First United Methodist Church PDX, 1838 SW Jefferson St,Portland, Oregon, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Heavens Full of Stars: Music of Ēriks Ešenvalds?
  - **A:** Heavens Full of Stars: Music of Ēriks Ešenvalds is organized by Oregon Repertory Singers.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Heavens Full of Stars: Music of Ēriks Ešenvalds is ideal for live music fans, concert-goers, and anyone who enjoys unforgettable performances from their favorite artists in an electric live atmosphere. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Portland, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Heavens Full of Stars: Music of Ēriks Ešenvalds sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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