The celebrated Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble returns with a program of a cappella choral music, ranging from Renaissance masterworks to roof-raising spirituals. Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Program:
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla: Deus in Adiutorium Meum Intende
Juan de Lienas: Lamentatio in Coena Domini
William Billings: Kittery (Our Father Who in Heaven Art)
Alexander Johnson: Jefferson (Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken)
W.E. Glanton: My Home Above
Trevor Weston: Happy Shore
Traditional African American Spiritual: There Is a Balm in Gilead (arr. Joseph H. Jennings)
Traditional African American Spiritual: Wade in the Water (arr. Stephen M. Murphy)
Brent Michael Davids: The Un-Covered Wagon
Virgil Thomson: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Ayanna Woods: close[r], now
Chen Yi: I Hear the Siren’s Call
Toby Twining: Hee-oo-oom-ha
To be selected from:
Traditional: American Folksong Medley (arr. Steve Barnett)
Irving Berlin: Blue Skies (arr. Jennings)
Shobha Raju: Brahmamokate (arr. Vineel Garisa Mahal)
Doyle Lawson, Charles Waller & Robert Yates: Calling My Children Home (arr. Joseph H. Jennings)
Charlie Smalls: Home (arr. Jared Graveley)
Pete Seeger: If I Had a Hammer (arr. Adam Brett Ward)
Albert E. Brumley: I’ll Fly Away (arr. Tim Keeler)
Stephen Foster: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. Gene Puerling)
Cliff Friend: Lovesick Blues (arr. Adam Brett Ward)
Manuel Sánchez Acosta: Paraiso Soñado (arr. Juan Tony Guzmán)
Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin: The Trolley Song (arr. Graveley)
