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The Chorale kicks off our Silver Anniversary season with a very entertaining
concert for all ages featuring Broadway musical selections, American folk,
popular and patriotic songs, followed with ice cream for everyone.A
medley of songs by Duke Ellington and another from South Pacific, plus I
Remember It Well from Gigi and Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the
Boat from Guys and Dolls
. Add to that For All We Know from the 1930’s, Billy Joel’s Just the Way
You Are, an exquisite eight-part a cappella setting of Amazing
Grace along with a lively setting of Cindy, and closing with the Battle
Hymn of the Republic – and afterward there will be ice cream for all!
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The Chorale, Chamber Ensemble and more than 50 selected children’s choir singers, with full orchestra and organ, present our annual festive holiday concert.
No one does this better!
With selections by Handel, Busto, Howells, Vaughan Williams, Rutter, Gibbs, and others, plus spectacular medleys of holiday songs,
we guarantee to stir your heart, preparing you for this season of joy and promise.
You also get to add your voice to the more than 200 performers in singing holiday favorites.
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What do Over the Rainbow, Singin’ in the Rain, Moon River, The Shadow of Your
Smile, Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Cheek to Cheek, The Trolley Song,
Summertime, It Had to Be You, When You Wish Upon a Star…have in common?
The Chamber Ensemble presents sixteen selections from the American Film
Institute's list of the top 100 favorite songs from movies.
If you know these, you will love hearing them delivered as only the Chamber
Ensemble can do. If you don’t, just come up and thank us after the
concert. And while you enjoy these fabulous arrangements, you will be
treated to equally fabulous desserts.
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Accompanied by full orchestra, the Chorale performs sixteen superb selections
from major choral works previously performed during Cantare's 25-year history.Included
are excerpts from Mass movements by Bach, Ramirez and Ray, from Requiems
by Duruflé and Brahms, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's The Creation,
Mendelssohn's Elijah, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Barber’s Agnus
Dei, Thompson's Frostiana, Rachmaninoff’s Vespers among
others.
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Arroz con leche (rice with milk) is one of the most popular desserts in the Latin
world. Simple and sweet, it conjures up memories of home and is a supreme
comfort food. With that as our theme, the Chamber Ensemble joins with
the renowned Bay Area instrumental ensemble Quijeremá in presenting a
concert of Music from Latin America.
The Chamber Ensemble will offer stirring
selections from various South and Central American countries, the Caribbean
Islands and Mexico. Quijeremá’s music draws from the rhythms and songs
of the African diaspora in Latin America, infusing original contemporary
Latin American compositions with a unique sense of these ancient musical
traditions. The history of a great people that dominate our hemisphere will
come alive through their music, narration and pictures.
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The Chorale closes the season with a stunning concert of American music plus
selections from Spain and Latin America as they prepare to embark on their
international tour to Spain in mid-June.
Thrill to the sounds of American Jazz, folks songs, show songs and popular
music, African American spirituals and gospel selections, pieces by
contemporary classical composers, and a rich selection of songs from sunny
Spain.
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25 years – Unbelievable! Our season title To Reach the Unreachable Stars says
it all. It has been a sensational ride for the hundreds of singers and
thousands of listeners who have played prominent roles throughout our history.
We sing for YOU, as we unleash the passion within the music generated by the
finest composers and poets.
Before you are stunning concerts that match this remarkable quarter-century
milestone. The Chamber Ensemble and Chorale are absolutely at their finest,
truly embodying their reputation of beautiful blend, rhythmic precision and
flawless pitch, fused with immense fervency. Together, they are poised to
perform over 100 memorable pieces over the next year, guaranteed to entertain
as well as inspire you.
I hope that you will be with us at this season’s concerts as we celebrate 25
years of soaring beyond the boundaries of what at one time appeared impossible,
and achieving that which is absolutely attainable if we but reach for it.
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