TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS
PRESENTS

GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING VOCAL ENSEMBLE
CHANTICLEER

Casey Breves, Gregory Peebles, Kory Reid – soprano
Cortez Mitchell, Alan Reinhardt, Adam Ward – alto
Matthew Curtis, Brian Hinman, Ben Jones – tenor
Eric Alatorre, Michael Axtell, Matthew Knickman – baritone and bass
Jace Wittig – Interim Music Director

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2012, 7:00 P.M.
AT BASS CONCERT HALL

Presented in partnership with the L Style G Style

“The singing of Chanticleer is breathtaking in its accuracy of intonation, purity of blend, variety of color and swagger of style.”
— The Boston Globe

Hailed by The New York Times as “precise, pure, and deeply felt singing”, Texas Performing Arts proudly welcomes the award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer to Bass Concert Hall on Sunday, March 4. Known around the world as ‘an orchestra of voices’, the twelve-member male chorus presents a seamless blend of its voices. The San Francisco based chorus presents original interpretations of vocal literature ranging from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to venturesome new music.

Originally founded in 1978 by Louis Botto, Chanticleer gained international recognition in 1984 after performing a Mass at the International Josquin Symposium in Belgium and has been regarded as a premiere male chorus ever since. In the span of their existence, Chanticleer commissioned works from over 70 composers and premiered over 90 pieces with more than 100 men participating in the ensemble.
The ensemble maintains a mission to present choral music at the highest level of excellence and to encourage worldwide appreciation for the art of ensemble singing. Chanticleer strives to fulfill their mission statement through their schedule of live performance, support of education, and creation of new choral work. In 2010, Chanticleer was awarded with the Chorus American Education and Outreach Award for their educational program.

In 2008, Musical America, and remains one of the most in demand vocal ensembles worldwide named Chanticleer Ensemble of the Year. Chanticleer has premiered newly commissioned works by Roxanna Panufnik and Peter Michaelides, as well as a newly composed piece by Nathan Bates.
Program:

Veni, dilecte mi* Sebastián de Vivanco (1551-1622)
Sicut lilium inter spinas*
Nigra sum sed formosa Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
from Le Cantique des cantiques Daniel-Lesur (1908-2002)
Dialogue
La voix du bien-aimé
Épithalame*

Ubi caritas* Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)

This Marriage* Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

Village Wedding* Sir John Tavener (b. 1944)

Die Stimme des Kindes* Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b. 1963)

The Woman with the Alabaster Box* Arvo Pärt (b.1935)

Avoonan Dbishmayya (The Lord’s Prayer)* Ilyas Iliya ( b. l963)

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen* Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
arr. Clytus Gottwald

Grace To You* Jan Gilbert (b. 1946)

For more information, please visit texasperformingarts.org/season/chanticleer.

CALENDAR LISTING
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 7:00 pm –Texas Performing Arts presents Chanticleer at Bass Concert Hall (2300 Robert Dedman Dr). A map of the campus: texasperformingarts.org/visit/maps_directions. Tickets ($28-$36 / Limited $10 student tickets / discounted tickets available for UT faculty & staff, seniors and Military) are on sale now at authorized ticket outlets, which include the Bass Concert Hall Box Office, most H-E-B stores and all Texas Box Office outlets, online at TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO.

PRESS CONTACT:
Gene Bartholomew
512.471.0632; gbartholomew@TexasPerformingArts.org

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