Radiant - hypnotic - elemental - mysterious - exquisite
Cantata Singers revels in music of wild roots and broad imagination — the world of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Challenging our expectation and, at the same time, comforting our hearts, this music speaks to generations with an unusually embracing voice.
Works including
3 Shakespeare Songs
Flos Campi for solo viola, chorus and orchestra
with William Frampton, viola
Riders to the Sea, one-act opera, semi-staged
Oboe Concerto in A Minor
with Peggy Pearson, oboe
Mass in G Minor
Solo Songs, Song Cycles and Chamber Music
Surrounded by music of
Charles Ives • Irving Fine
Andrew Imbrie •
Edward Elgar •
Gustav Holst
As well as the premiere of a new Cantata Singers commission for chorus and orchestra by Yehudi Wyner
And in preparation for our 50th Anniversary
celebration, we present two performances of the
Mass in B Minor of J.S. Bach
October 3
Cantata Singers
Chamber Series
November 5 & 6
Vaughan Williams
Imbrie
Fine
Wyner
January 14
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Holst
Finzi
March 18 & 20
J.S. Bach
May 13
Vaughan Williams
Bernstein
Ives
Howells