The Far West

February 23, 2025

Bella Concert Hall

3:00 PM

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 LV in 2014 and winner of 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.”