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The season features music for chorus plus a solo instrument played by a virtuoso performer.
Each concert evokes a different mental state, consistent with the character of the instrument.
BASSOON/ironic draws on the aphoristic sensibilities of a variety of composers and poets
as they contemplate life's meaning. GUITAR/nostalgic uses the sound of the guitar for
effects of passionate yearning. MARIMBA/exotic exploits the otherworldly pulsing and
throbbing of this colorfully percussive instrument in a spirit of contemplation and discovery.
A new work, Beyond Good and Evil: Epigrams and Interludes for Chorus and Four Bassoons, by Bradley Balliett,
composer and ACJW bassoonist, on aphorisms by Nietzsche. Renaissance music by the singular French composer
Paschal de l’Estocart, and madrigals by Paul Hindemith. Music for bassoons. Bradley Balliett and
friends, bassoons.
Get in the spirit with Cantori’s annual concert of traditional holiday music!
A new work, Night Keeps Its Promise by Frank Ezra Levy on poetry by Joel Allegretti, and a Gypsy cycle
on Lorca texts by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, both for chorus, baritone and guitar. Renaissance music by
John Dowland, and madrigals by Paul Hindemith. Music for guitar. Christopher Kenniff, guitar.
A new cycle for chorus and marimba, by Jacob Bancks, David Bruce and Akemi Naito, for chorus and marimba, in
English and Japanese on texts by Walt Whitman, Saigyo Hoshi (1118-1190) and others. Madrigals by Paul Hindemith. Music
for marimba. Makoto Nakura, marimba.
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