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About Chanticleer
Chanticleer, the Grammy-winning and San Francisco-based chorus, is “the world’s reigning male chorus,” the New Yorker writes, and was named Musical America’s 2008 Ensemble of the Year.
Chanticleer makes appearances at legendary concert halls worldwide on a regular basis. The ensemble is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for the seamless blend of its 12 male voices ranging from countertenor to bass and its original interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to venturesome new music. Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis Botto, who sang in the ensemble until 1989 and served as artistic director until his death in 1997.
Program
- de Vivanco (1551–1622): Veni, dilecte mi
- de Vivanco: Sicut lilium inter spinas
- de Victoria (1548–1611): Nigra sum sed formosa (1576)
- Duruflé (1902–1986): Ubi caritas (1960)
- Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002): Épithalame, from Le Cantique des cantiques (1953)
- de Sermisy (1495–1562): Tant que vivray (1527)
- Janequin (c. 1485–1558) Toutes les nuits
- Le Jeune (1529–1600): Revoici venir du printemps (1560)
- Strauss (1864–1949): Drei Männerchöre (1899)
- Whitacre (1970–): This Marriage (2005)
- Tavener (1944–): A Village Wedding (1992)
- Paulus (1949–): from The Lotus Lover
- Selection of popular songs to be announced
Master Class
Date: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 11:00am
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall
Chanticleer Education Director Ben Johns works with the SF State Chamber Singers, the top choral ensemble in the University’s School of Music and Dance.
Johns sang in the Chanticleer ensemble for three years before being named director of education. His duties include directing Chanticleer’s LAB Choir and giving master classes. Johns also teaches voice at Diablo Valley College and continues to sing professionally as a soloist and choral artist around the country.
Pre-Concert Talk
Date: Sun, Feb 19, 2012 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre
Join composer Richard Festinger, artistic director of the Morrison Artists Series, for a lecture on Chanticleer and the music that will be performed later that afternoon at the Morrison Artists Series concert.
