Dolce Canto ponders `Eternity` at fall concert
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Music in five languages, as old as the Renaissance, and composers who still live make up the program for `Eternity,` the fall concert from Dolce Canto. Artistic director Yong Mao`s concept for the show started with `Muziba,` which is Latvian for `Eternity,` by Peteris Plakidis, a composer who died in 2017. He didn`t publish very much music, and this piece is one of his six core works, Mao said. He estimates that it`s the most difficult piece yet for the choir, an auditioned group that has performed at Carnegie Hall and toured South Korea. Plakidis wrote the piece using proportional canon, a technique from the early Renaissance in which `three soprano parts share the same melody but at...