June 24, 2018 – April 14, 2018
Jun 2018
Cantate Chicago performs at Chorus America’s national conference
Old St. Patrick’s Church • Chicago
Cantate Chicago, along with ANIMA and the St. Charles Singers, will be featured performers at Chorus America’s national conference in June. Each group will perform a 30-minute set.
Cantate’s set:
Veljo Tormis (1930-2017) Raua needmine (Curse Upon Iron)
Vytautas Miškinis (b. 1954) Dum medium silentium
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Missa Brevis
Cantate Chicago
Benjamin Rivera, conductor
www.cantatechicago.org
May 2018
Solemn High Mass for Holy Trinity
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Missa in C major (in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis), K. 167
-James MacMillan (b. 1959) Data est mihi omnis potestas from The Strathclyde Motets (2007)
-William Boyce (1711-1779) Te Deum in C
-minor propers chanted in Latin
May 2018
Solemn High Mass for Pentecost
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
-Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) Messe in Es for double choir (Cantus Missae)
-Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611) Veni sancte spiritus for double choir
-Howard Helvey (b. 1968) O lux beatissima (2002)
-William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Factus est repente à5
-minor propers chanted in Latin
May 2018
Pontifical High Mass for the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
-Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Ecce sacerdos magnus
-Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Mass in G
-Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Coelos ascendit hodie
-William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Psallite Domino
-minor propers chanted in Latin
Apr 2018
Behold How Good and How Pleasant - Bass
Schola Antiqua • Evanston
Schola Antiqua honors the legacy of musicologist Theodore C. Karp (1926–2015) with an evening highlighting musical repertories illuminated by his scholarship. The concert, directed by Michael Alan Anderson, centers on rarely performed French secular song and twelfth century sacred polyphony from the Abbey of St. Martial in Limoges. The tribute concludes with a complete performance of Orlande de Lassus’ monumental Prophetiae Sibyllarum.
Apr 2018
Behold How Good and How Pleasant - Bass
Schola Antiqua • Chicago
Schola Antiqua honors the legacy of musicologist Theodore C. Karp (1926–2015) with an evening highlighting musical repertories illuminated by his scholarship. The concert, directed by Michael Alan Anderson, centers on rarely performed French secular song and twelfth century sacred polyphony from the Abbey of St. Martial in Limoges. The tribute concludes with a complete performance of Orlande de Lassus’ monumental Prophetiae Sibyllarum.
Sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Music Department