Choral Group premieres new music

The Esoterics has been called "Seattle's most innovatice choir" and true to the moniker, the group's recent concert series was 100% premiers.

The above recording and slide show was posted by composer Nilo Alcala.  The work is called Song of the Night and was the 2009 Polyphonos Young Composer Award.

Song of the Night's premier performance was at St Joseph's Catholic Church on Capitol Hill October 17th, 2009.

The Esoterics regularly perform on Capitol Hill and you can follow them on Twitter @TheEsoterics

Below is the full text of the piece:

Oh, do not sleep friend, through this night. 
You a soul, while we are suffring through this night 
Banish slumber from your eyes! 
The great secret is revealed in this night. 
You are Jove in the high heavens, 
Round heavns starry dome you circle in this night! 
Like an eagle fly above! 
Now a hero is your soul in this night. 
Such a quiet, others sleep 
I and God alone together in this night! 
What a roar! Joy arises,  
Truth with gleaming wing is shining in this night! 

Do not sleep friend, 
If I slumbered until sunrise, 
I should never, never see this night again! 
Thorough fares on earth are silent. 
There behold the starry roads of this night. 
Leo, Orion, 
Sagittarius and the Virgin blood?red gleam through this night. 
Saturn binds with fateful powers, 
Venus floats in golden rain through this night. 
Silence binds my tongue with fetters, 
But I speak though tongueless in this night!