Cantate Chamber Singers

   2009 - 2010 The 25th Anniversary Concert Season

   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
 
   Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 7:30 pm
   St. John's Norwood Parish
   6701 Wisconsin Ave. 
   Chevy Chase, Maryland 
 
 
 
   CONCERT II  
   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, Op. 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 
   featuring selections of past winning compositions from Cantate's biennial contest
   Andrew Foreman: Psalm 69
   Judah Adashi: Elegiac Madrigals
   Matthew Arndt: Agnus Dei
 
   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 at 7:30 pm
   St. John's Norwood Parish
   6701 Wisconsin Ave. 
   Chevy Chase, Maryland 
 
 
 
   CONCERT III
  
   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, Op. 16
 
   Igor Stravinsky: Mass
   with dance by Bowen McCauley Dance and newly commissioned choreography by
   Lucy Bowen McCauley, Director
  
   Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 7:30  pm
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
   Terrace Theater
   2700 F Street NW
   Washington, DC
 
 
 
   GUEST APPEARANCES 
   Engagements 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 - 8:00 pm
    Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 2:00 pm and 5:00 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
    Main Phone: 202-544-4600
    Box Office: 202-544-7077
    Fax: 202-544-4623
 
 
   Guest Appearance
   Virginia Chamber Orchestra  Emil de Cou, Music Director
   Winter Concert
   Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:00 pm
   Cantate will perform Purcell's Welcome to All the Pleasures
   program also includes Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Vivaldi's Four Seasons
   Ernst Community Cultural Center, NVCC Annandale
   8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA
 
 
    Final program posted July 20, 2009; updated November 30, 2009
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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