Cantari

Cantari, Voices’ select vocal ensemble, made its choral debut in the 2006-07 season. Singing mostly a cappella music, Cantari’s vocal selections are chosen from medieval to modern repertoire, and include sacred and secular, serious and humorous numbers.

2018-2019 Cantari Season Schedule

Life, Love & Nature

November 10, 2018

Poetic expression of life, love & nature through choral music.

Romancero Gitano, Op. 152 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
for mixed chorus and guitar, with guest guitarist Carey Harwood
based on poems by Frederico Garcia Lorca

Songs of Nature, Op. 63 – Antonin Dvorák
based on poems by Vitezlav Hálek

Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 – Johannes Brahms
for mixed chorus and piano (4 hands) played by Shoko Abe and guest Robert Buxton
based on Georg Friedrich Daumer’s Polydora, a collection of folks songs and love poems

Poetry in Song

March 2019

Profound poetry set to beautiful choral music, highlights include “Highland Mary” from Four Robert Burns Ballads composed by James Mulholland, “Ronde” from Trois Chanson composed by Maurice Ravel, “Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain” from Three Shakespeare Songs by Arthur Frackenpohl.

Women of Note

May 2019

Showcasing exciting music from contemporary women composers.  Selections include

The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass – Carol Barnett
for mixed chorus and bluegrass band

A Burst of Song – Joan Szymko

Songstream – Alice Parker