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Cantare Con Vivo's 2012-2013 season will be unforgettable! Experience all the beauty and excitement of Cantare's concert offerings with a Season Subscription and enjoy priority seating and advance purchase discounts. Individual concert purchases are available as well.
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We close our season with the Chorale, Chamber Ensemble and Nova presenting a concert of American music at the center of which is Howard Hanson's stirring setting from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" entitled Song of Democracy. On both sides of that are selections by Randall Thompson, Whitacre, Dickau, along with various folk song arrangements including the Bay Area premier of Shawn Kirchner's "bluegrass triptych," Heavenly Home: Three American Songs. Also featured are James Taylor's Fire and Rain, Billy Joel’s And So It Goes plus spirituals and show music that will leave you on a musical high.
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September 2012: Our Chorale season opener Unclouded Day was a sure winner for audiences of all ages. The Chorale performed Gershwin's Summertime, Gilbert & Sullivan's hilarious Modern Major-General, selections from Mame, Camelot and My Fair Lady, along with the fun-loving The Song That Goes Like This from Spamalot. Selections by American composers William Hawley, Shawn Kirchner and Morton Lauridsen were followed with songs made popular by Bruce Springsteen and Rascal Flatts, ending with Paul McCartney's Let It Be. Cantare served delicious complementary ice cream following the Sunday matinee.
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November 2012: The Chamber Ensemble opened its season with selections from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. We began with madrigals from the 1500's, next moving to songs by Delius, Stanford and Holst, plus an exquisite a cappella setting of Elgar's Nimrod Variation (Lux Aeterna). Along the way we picked up folk song arrangements of The Ash Grove, Loch Lomond, Bobby Shaftoe, Marianne, Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go? among others. The Ensemble added the Beatles' Penny Lane and Grainger's Londonderry Air to complete this incredible concert.
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December 2012: The Chorale, Chamber Ensemble and Children's Honor Choir joined forces in presenting our annual festive holiday concert.
No one in the area does this better! We presented Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and other selections by Gibbs, Dan Forrest, Kevin Memley, Ron Nelson, Rachmaninoff and others, plus settings of popular Christmas and Hanukkah songs. The audience added their voice to the choirs, singing carols and other holiday songs to help usher in the spirit of the season.
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February 2012: The Chamber Ensemble offered its annual Valentine's holiday concert featuring popular love songs from the last 90 years including such greats as: Tea for Two, I Got Rhythm, All of Me, Once Upon a Time, A Groovy Kind of Love, This Will Be, Killing Me Softly, Ribbon in the Sky, The Way We Were, Up Where We Belong – 18 songs in all. And while they entertained, Cantare offered the finest desserts, good wine and other beverages as well as the opportunity to sing some of these selections along with the Ensemble.
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March 2013: Composed by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1915, these fifteen numbers form what is called in Russian the Combined Prayer Service, or All-Night Vigil. The themes are based on various chants from the Russian Orthodox Church, harmonized in as many as 12 parts at given moments and sung entirely without instrumental accompaniment. "Even in my dreams I could not have imagined that I would write such a work," Rachmaninoff told the singers at the first performance. There is a rare spiritual atmosphere pervading this entire work that leaves both singer and listener profoundly moved.
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April 26, 2013 was an unforgettable evening bringing together over 250 children from our after-school choir programs. We embarked on a journey around the world with "The Flower Drum Song" accompanied by traditional Chinese instruments; jazz, folk and pop favorites from America; folk music from Serbia and Mexico; and "¡Oye!", an exciting piece with dynamic percussion parts and moving lyrics written by children from South America.
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The Ensemble closed the season featuring six composers' profound reflections on birth, beauty, praise, nature, love and separation. Included were Brahms' Nänie, Sven-David Sandström's Laudamus te, Effinger's Four Pastorales, Richard Strauss' Morgen, Eric Whitacre’s Three Songs of Faith, and a haunting choral setting of Rachmaninoff's Vocalise. This wass choral singing at its very best.
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