Cantate Chamber Singers

   2009 - 2010 The 25th Anniversary Concert Season

   Preliminary as of May 17, 2009

   CONCERT I
   Commissions and Social Consciousness   
  
    James MacMillan: Cantos Sagrados
    Gary Davison, organist
 
   Nicholas White: Visions of Jerusalem
   Nicholas White, conductor
 
   Bruce Neswick: Ave Maris Stella
   Bruce Neswick, conductor
 
   Gary Davison: Flowers in the Snow
   Gary Davison, conductor
   with Roger Isaacs, countertenor, and Lori Barnett, cello
 
   Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 7:30 pm
   St. John's Norwood Parish
   6701 Wisconsin Ave. 
   Chevy Chase, Maryland 
 
 
 
   CONCERT II  
  
   Guest Appearance with the Folger Consort
   "In Dulci Jubilo: A German Christmas
   Friday, December 11, 2009 - 8:00 pm
    Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm
    Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 7:30 pm
    Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 7:30 pm
    Friday, December 18, 2009 - 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
    Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
    Sunday, December 20, 2009 - 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm
 
    Elizabethan Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Library
    201 East Capitol Street, S.E., Washington, DC
 
 
   CONCERT III
   Spirit and the Spirit of Youth
 
   A Mass Compilation
   Kyrie: Antonin Dvorak, Mass in D major, Op. 86
   Gloria: Francis Poulenc, Mass in G major, FP 89
   Credo: Frank Martin, Mass for Double Choir
   Sanctus/Benedictus: Zoltan Kodály, Mass
   Agnus Dei: Joseph Rheinberger, Mass in E-flat major, Op. 109  
   Eric Plutz, organist
 
   Young Composers' Contest Winners - selections from winning compositions
   Kala Pierson: Torno al Foco
   Andrew Foreman: Psalm 69
   Judah Adashi: Elegiac Madrigals
   Andrew Arndt: Agnus Dei
   Dominick DiOrio: Cantate Domino 
   Lyudmila German:  Lux Aeterna
 
   Composer-in-Residence Compositions
   Maurice Saylor: Two Slumber Songs
                                     from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
   Andrew Earle Simpson: The Sparrow Song
         Andrew Earle Simpson, piano
 
   Saturday, March 6, 2010 - time TBA
   St. John's Norwood Parish
   6701 Wisconsin Ave. 
   Chevy Chase, Maryland 
 
 
 
   CONCERT IV
   Cantate at the Terrace Theater
   John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
 
   Choral Tours de Force
   Arnold Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op. 13
   Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs, Op. 47
   Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons
   Samuel Barber: Reincarnations
 
   Igor Stravinsky: Mass
   with new choreography by Bowen McCauley Dance
  
   Saturday, April 24, 2010 - time TBA
 
 
 
 
 
 
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