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SUMMARY:Chanticleer
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nChanticleer returns to the Cathedral Basilica with a revelatory sacred program entitled Upon The Rock. The world-renowned men’s ensemble shines in music that has comforted and confounded saints and sinners alike for as long as spirituality and music have gone together. Transcendent prayers of thanksgiving and consolation\, psalms of happiness\, and paeans of praise come together in a program that includes music by Dufay\, Poulenc\, Weelkes\, Mendelssohn\, Brahms\, and many others\, as well as the premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner John Harbison’s first composition for Chanticleer. \n[push h=”20″] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/chanticleer1718/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/chanticleer-2/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-2018 Season
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SUMMARY:Beethoven’s Ode to Joy
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nBeethoven’s great masterpiece\, the Symphony No. 9\, rings through the Cathedral Basilica as the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia joins forces with Symphony in C. This premiere program of the 2017-18 season brings two storied organizations into the glow of the Cathedral Basilica and lends the ‘Cathedral sound’ to Beethoven’s themes of unity and brotherhood and the famous choral strains of the Ode to Joy. \nPerformed by large chorus\, full symphony orchestra\, and soloists from the Academy of Vocal Arts\, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy will be a concert experience to remember. \n[push h=”20″] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/beethovens-ode-to-joy/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/beethovens-ode-to-joy/
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SUMMARY:Christmas at the Cathedral
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nOur annual Christmas celebration is back and better than ever. Cathedral Music Director Charlene Angelini leads an uplifting program of beautiful carols and the traditional music of Christmas\, performed by the combined forces of the Cathedral Choir and the choirs of the Philadelphia Archdiocese. Resounding brass add to the spectacle as voices rise in celebration of the festive season! \n[push h=”20″] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/christmas-at-the-cathedral-basilica-2017/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/christmas-at-the-cathedral/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017-2018 Season
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SUMMARY:Westminster Williamson Voices
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nLed by James Jordan\, the Grammy-nominated ensemble returns to the Cathedral Basilica with a diverse and inspiring program showcasing the choir’s distinctive artistry and rich palette of choral colors in music by a wide range of composers exploring spirituality. \nFounded by James Jordan\, the Westminster Williamson Voices has been praised by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic for its recordings on the Naxos label. Gramophone magazine has characterized the ensemble’s sound as “intimate and forceful choral artistry\,” with a tone that is “controlled and silken” and “vibrantly sonorous.” The American Record Guide praised the ensemble as “without peer.” \n[push h=”20″] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/westminster-williamson-voices1718/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/westminster-williamson-voices-2/
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SUMMARY:Cantus
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe “intellectually\, emotionally\, and musically rich” (Star Tribune) men’s vocal ensemble Cantus is widely known for its trademark warmth and blend\, innovative programming\, and its engaging performances of music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Following their appearance at Longwood Gardens last season\, Cantus comes to Center City to explore the sumptuous ‘Cathedral sound’ as part of Concerts at the Cathedral Basilica. \nCantus performs their program Discovery of Sight. Light is an integral part of life\, from governing our daily habits and cycles\, to providing nourishment\, warmth\, and protection. But what happens when the light is taken away\, or restored? We all have experienced our own personal ‘sunrises’ or ‘twilight hours.’ There are even moments in our lives when we recognize the impact of vision in new ways. \nIncluding music by Schubert\, Strauss\, Eric Whitacre\, and many others\, this program revels in the mystery\, science\, and poetry of what it means to truly ‘see.’ \n[push h=”20″] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/cantus/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/cantus/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Same Stream Choir
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LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Community Concerts
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Boy Choir
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n6:30 pm Performance \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/san-francisco-boy-choir/
LOCATION:PA
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Boys Choir
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n5:15 Anticipated Mass \n[/column]
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T193000
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SUMMARY:Choir of Trinity Wall Street & Trinity Baroque Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nChoir of Trinity Wall Street & Trinity Baroque Orchestra\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nMonteverdi Masterpiece\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n\n\nThe GRAMMY-nominated ensemble closes our season with one of the most iconic works of early music\, the 1610 Vespers by Claudio Monteverdi. Thirty-four voices and an orchestra of 20—all led by conductor Julian Wachner—fill the Cathedral Basilica with the glorious sounds of this innovative and forward-looking work of early Baroque genius.  \n“Monteverdi’s epic Vespers of 1610 stands alone in the repertoire as a culmination of one time period and the confident heralding of the new. A virtual encyclopedia displaying all that was possible compositionally up until that point\, and ushering in the new style that was to reach its zenith in the monumental works of Handel\, Bach and Vivaldi!”  —Julian Wachner \n\n\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/choir-of-trinity-wall-street/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nChoir of Trinity Wall Street\nTrinity Baroque Orchestra\nJulian Wachner\, Director\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nProgram\nClaudio Monteverdi 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[tabs layout=”horizontal” nav_color=”accent2″ left_color=”accent8″ right_color=”accent1″]\n[tab icon=”” title=”Ensemble”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nAs peerless interpreters of both early and new music\, the GRAMMY®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street has changed the realm of 21st-century vocal music\, breaking new ground with its artistry described as “blazing with vigour… a choir from heaven” (The Times\, London). \nThis premiere ensemble\, under the direction of Julian Wachner\, can be heard both in New York City and around the world in performances alternately described as “thrilling” (The New Yorker)\, “musically top-notch” (The Wall Street Journal)\, and “simply superb” (The New York Times). The Choir leads the liturgical music on Sundays at Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel\, while performing in Bach at One\, Compline by Candlelight\, and many other concerts and festivals throughout the year\, often with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra andNOVUS NY. Critically acclaimed annual performances of Handel’s Messiah are part of its long and storied tradition\, and attending the Choir’s performances at Trinity’s annual Twelfth Night Festival has quickly become the holiday tradition of many New Yorkers as well. \n\nThe Choir has toured extensively throughout the United States\, making appearances at Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Berkeley Early Music Festival\, BAM Next Wave Festival\, and the Prototype Festival. The Choir is also increasingly in demand internationally\, and recent seasons have seen performances at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and London’s Barbican Theatre. The Choir has been featured with the Bang on a Can All-Stars\, the New York Philharmonic\, and with the Rolling Stones on their 50th anniversary tour. \nIn addition to their GRAMMY®-nominated Israel in Egypt CD\, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has released several recordings with Naxos\, Musica Omnia\, VIA Recordings\, and Avie Records. Trinity’s long-term commitment to new music is evident in recordings and collaborations with living composers such as Du Yun\, Paola Prestini\, Ralf Gawlick\, Elena Ruehr\, and Julia Wolfe\, whose 2015 Pulitzer Prize–winning work Anthracite Fields was recorded with The Choir. The 2015-16 season promises to continue The Choir’s long-standing reputation for conferring a “musical blessing” (New York Times) on New York City and beyond. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab] \n[tab icon=”” title=”Julian Wachner”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nJulian Wachner \nGrammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner is one of North America’s most exciting and versatile musicians\, sought after as conductor\, composer\, and keyboard artist.  Recent and upcoming engagements include those with the Lincoln Center Festival (The Blind)\, BAM Next Wave Festival (Liederabend 2013)\, Juilliard Opera Theatre (2013 Mainstage)\, The Rolling Stones (50th anniversary tour)\, New York City Opera (VOX)\, Hong Kong Philharmonic\, TENET (TENEbrae)\, Portland Baroque (Messiah)\, and with Carnegie Hall (Arvo Pärt Passio). \nAs Director of Music and the Arts at New York’s historic Trinity Wall Street\, Wachner oversees an annual season of over 900 events\, including Trinity’s numerous and varied concert offerings\, series and festivals\, museum expositions\, dance and theatre performances\, poetry and literary readings\, and educational/outreach initiatives in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn in partnership with New York City’s public school system. \nAt Trinity Wall Street\, Wachner serves as the Principal Conductor of NOVUS NY (Trinity’s resident contemporary music orchestra)\, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra & Choir of Trinity Wall Street\, recently nominated for a 2012 GRAMMY award for its recording of Handel’s complete Israel in Egypt. He also is the director of Bach at One\, Trinity’s weekly performances of the Cantatas of J. S. Bach. Performances this season with TWS include Bach’s Matthew Passion\, Christmas Oratorio\, B-minor Mass\, the complete late works of Igor Stravinsky (April 2013)\, and the complete non-operatic works of Benjamin Britten (Fall 2013). To open the 2012-13 Season\, Wachner conceived of and directed Trinity’s Twelve in 12 Festival celebrating the Pulitzer Prize in music.  Of this festival\, Steve Smith noted in Time Out that “some ideas seem so utterly obvious and right at a glance that you wonder why it took someone so long to hatch them. ‘Twelve in 12’ is that kind of notion…Mark your calendars\, and give thanks.” \nWachner is also Music Director of the Grammy Award-winning Washington Chorus\, with whom he won ASCAP’s Alice Parker award for adventurous programming in 2011.  Wachner has also made memorable guest appearances with such major organizations as the Philadelphia Orchestra\, the Montreal and Pittsburgh Symphonies\, Spoleto Festival USA\, the Handel and Haydn Society\, Glimmerglass Opera\, Hawaii Opera Theater\, New York City Opera and the Boston Pops.  A Baroque specialist\, he was the founding Music Director of the Boston Bach Ensemble and the Bach Académie de Montréal\, besides serving as Artistic Director of International Bach Festivals in Boston and Montreal.  In 2011 he founded New York City’s newest music festival\, The Twelfth Night Festival of Early Music\, most recently presented in collaboration with Gotham Early Music Society (GEMS) and featuring many of New York’s leading baroque and renaissance ensembles. \nIn 2010\, Wachner made New York City Opera history when he was selected as both conductor and composer at the company’s annual VOX festival of contemporary opera leading to the invitation to be the sole conductor of this Festival in 2012.  His original music has been variously described as “jazzy\, energetic\, and ingenious” (Boston Globe)\, having “splendor\, dignity\, outstanding tone combinations\, sophisticated chromatic exploration…a rich backdrop\, wavering between a glimmer and a tingle…” (La Scena Musicale)\, being “a compendium of surprises” (Washington Post)\, and as “bold and atmospheric”\, having “an imaginative flair for allusive text setting” and noted for “the silken complexities of his harmonies” (New York Times.) The American Record Guide noted that “Wachner is both an unapologetic modernist and an open-minded eclectic – his music has something to say.”  E. C. Schirmer publishes his complete catalogue\, comprising over 80 titles. \nWachner’s performances inspire uncommon praise.  The New York Times pronounced his Trinity Wall Street debut “superbly performed” and\, this season\, noted that the ensemble’s annual Lincoln Center presentation of Handel’s Messiah was “led with both fearsome energy and delicate grace…a model of what is musically and emotionally possible with this venerable score.” Of his interpretation of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion\, according to the Boston Globe\, “there was genius here and no mistaking it.”  Anne Midgette\, of The Washington Post\, declared recent Wagner and Verdi performances “exhilarating\,” commenting: “Julian Wachner knows how to draw maximum drama from a score\,” and noted that he was “emphatic and theatrical and so at home in opera that he could bring out the requisite sense of drama.”  Following his account of the Messiah at the Philadelphia Orchestra\, the Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns observed: “Few conductors have drawn such focused\, committed\, and meticulous music-making as Julian Wachner. … [He] built the music\, line by line\, as an architectural edifice\, serving both the music’s emotional and more purely aesthetic elements.”  As a result\, Stearns “couldn’t help fantasize that [Wachner] might do an annual Philadelphia Orchestra festival of Bach and Handel.” \nAn award-winning organist and improvisateur\, Wachner’s solo recital at the Spoleto Festival USA featured an improvised finale that inspired one reviewer to conclude: “This stupefying wizardry was the hit of the recital\, and it had to be heard to be believed” (Post and Courier\, South Carolina).  As a concert pianist\, in his recent Kennedy Center Rachmaninoff performance\, the Washington Post noted “Wachner dazzled with some bravura keyboard work\, both in the rhapsodic accompaniments to the songs and…in the highly virtuosic transcription of the Dances.” \nWachner’s recordings are with the Chandos\, Naxos\, Atma Classique\, Arsis\, Dorian\, Musica Omnia\, and Titanic labels. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab]\n[/tabs] \n[/column]
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LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Season
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SUMMARY:Vox Luminis: Voices of Light
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nOur April 28 concert will go ahead as planned!\nThe Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul will be open\, and the parking lot will be available\, accessible from 17th Street between Vine and Race Streets.\nStreets surrounding the Cathedral Basilica will remain open.\nVox Luminis: Voices of Light\n[/column] \n[blank h=”10″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nVintage 1685\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nIt was a very good year! The period ensemble Vox Luminis brings a European perspective to Concerts at the Cathedral Basilica\, offering an enlightening program that spotlights two major composers born in 1685\, Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. With a sprinkling of motets by several Bach brothers and Scarlatti’s superb Stabat Mater\, Vox Luminis promises an evening to bask in the beauty of Baroque as this high-profile Belgian ensemble makes its Philadelphia debut. \n\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/vox-luminis/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nVox Luminis\nLionel Meunier\, Artistic Director\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nProgram to Include\nJohann Sebastian Bach Jesu meine Freude BWV 227\nJohann Christoph Bach Der Mensch vom Weibe geboren\nJohann Ludwig Bach Das ist meine Freude\nDomenico Scarlatti Stabat Mater a 10 voci \n[/column] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[tabs layout=”horizontal” nav_color=”accent2″ left_color=”accent8″ right_color=”accent1″]\n[tab icon=”” title=”Ensemble”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nVox Luminis\, founded in 2004 in Namur\, Belgium\, is an ensemble specializing in the performance of 16th through 18th century vocal music. The ensemble has been praised for its seamless blend of high-quality individual voices\, exquisite tuning\, and clarity of sound. After a performance on the acclaimed Miller Theater Early Music Series in February 2016\, the New York Times called the group’s program “revelatory\,” adding that singers “blended beautifully.”  \nThe majority of the group met at one of the most significant centers for early music in Europe: the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Vox Luminis has performed in festivals and venues in Belgium (Nuits de Septembre de Liège\, festival de Stavelot\, Juillet Musical de Saint-Hubert\, Automne Musical de Spa\, MA festival Bruges\, festival van Vlanderen Gent\, Laus Polifoniae Antwerpen\, festival des midi-Minimes\, Eté Musical de Roisin\, Société Philharmonique de Namur…); France (festival d’Ambronay\, festival de Saintes\, Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay\, festival de Saint-Michel en Thiérarche\, Midsummer festival d’Hardelot\, festival Contrepoint 62\, Festival Musique et Mémoire de Luxeuil\, Musique et Natures en Bauges\, festival Bach en Combrailles…); Germany (Ratingen Bachtage festival\, Muziekfest Stuttgart); The Netherlands (Oude Muziek Utrecht\, Den Haag\, Delft); Portugal (Centro Cultural Bélem-Lisbon) and Croatia (Varazdin Baroque Evenings).  \nVox Luminis records exclusively for the Belgian Label Ricercar. The ensemble’s first recording\, released in 2007\, features four vocal works by Domenico Scarlatti\, including his famous ten-part Stabat Mater. In 2010 the ensemble released its second album\, Samuel Scheidt: Sacrae Cantiones\, which features several world premieres. Vox Luminis’ 2012 recording of Heinrich Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien has received several prestigious awards including Gramophone’s Recording of the Year\, the Baroque Vocal Gramophone Award and the International Classical Music Award. Other recordings have also received awards throughout the world including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice\, Diapason d’Or\, Choc de Classica\, Muse d’Or Baroque\, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik\, Joker de Crescendo and Prix Caecilia.  \nVox Luminis is very grateful to have the support of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles and the City of Namur. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab] \n[tab icon=”” title=”Lionel Meunier”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nLionel Meunier was born in France. Passionate about music from a young age\, he began his musical education at the local school in his hometown of Clamecy where he studied solfege\, recorder and trumpet. Meunier continued his studies at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie\, Namur\, where he subsequently graduated with a high distinction in recorder studies in 2004. During his time at IMEP\, Meunier was a student of Tatiana Babut du Maresm but also took part in masterclasses with Jean Tubéry\, and also with Hugo Reyne. After his graduation\, Meunier began to focus on his vocal career\, studying with Rita Dams and Peter Kooij at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague. \nSince then\, Meunier has sung with numerous top ensembles in Europe such as Collegium Vocale Gent (P. Herreweghe)\, World Youth Choir\, Arsys Bourgogne (P. Cao)\, Amsterdam Baroque Choir (T. Koopman)\, Namur Chamber Choir and Ex Tempore\, and with soloist ensembles such as I Favoriti de la Fenice (J. Tubery)\, the Soloists of Namur Chamber Choir\, Capella Pratensis\, and the soloist ensemble of the Nederlandse Bachvereeniging. These experiences have given Meunier the opportunity to work with many of today’s leading specialists including Christophe Rousset\, Tonu Kaljuste\, Gustav Leonhardt\, Roberto Gini\, Jean-Claude Malgoire\, Paul Dombrecht\, Florian Heyerick\, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Richard Egarr. Meunier continues to be active as a vocal soloist\, performing repertoire such Schubert’s Mass in A Minor\, Bach’s St John Passion\, Haydn’s Stabat Mater and Nelson Mass\, Kronung Mass\, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor\, and Franck’s Mass in G. \nMeunier drew on his broad wealth of vocal experience and collaboration to form the critically acclaimed vocal ensemble Vox Luminis in 2004\, which was later to become his predominant musical focus. Since its inception\, the ensemble has been praised for each of its concert appearances and recordings\, winning numerous prestigious awards such as the Diapason d’Or\, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik CHOC de Classica\, and being named as Gramophone Editor’s Choice. However\, it was Vox Luminis’ seminal recording of Schütz’s Musikalische (considered now to be the new reference for the repertoire) that really brought them to the fore of the choral and early music world. In 2012\, the disc won unarguably one of the most coveted recording awards\, Gramophone Recording of the Year\, along with the Gramophone Baroque Vocal Award and the International Classical Music Award. \nIn recent seasons\, Meunier has increasingly been in demand as a coach\, artistic leader\, and conductor for ensembles throughout Europe. His thoughtful approach and passion for early and a cappella repertoire\, coupled with his respect and innate understanding of singers\, allows him gently to coax the highest possible standards from those with whom he collaborates. Vox Luminis is consistently praised for its seamless blend of individual voices\, exquisite tuning\, and clarity of sound\, which Meunier is able to emulate with other vocal groups thanks to his instinctive communication skills which allows him to build trust which each musician. \nAlso impassioned by pedagogy\, Meunier and Vox Luminis regularly give masterclass and coaching\, as well as lecture on the late Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. \nIn 2013 Lionel Meunier received the “Namurois de l’Année” award for culture (Citizen Of The Year – Namur province). \n[/column_1]\n[/tab]\n[/tabs] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/vox-luminis-voices-of-light/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Season
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SUMMARY:CAPA Choir
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nCAPA Choir\n[/column] \n[blank h=”10″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe Beauties of American Choral\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nSome of the most talented young singers in Philadelphia bring a panoply of American choral music to the Cathedral Basilica in this lively program led by director Dorina Morrow. Morrow has imbued the Choir of the Philadelphia Creative and Performing Arts High School with a rich sound and depth of character seldom heard in young voices. Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei—the choral version of his iconic Adagio for Strings—captures the essence of a program exploring themes of spirituality and faith\, identity and longing\, through poignant spirituals and the lush choral harmonies of Eric Whitacre\, Leonard Bernstein\, Z. Randall Stroope\, and Aaron Copland. \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/choir-of-the-creative-and-performing-arts-high-school-philadelp/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nCAPA Choir\nDorina Morrow\, Director\n\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nProgram to Include\nMoses Hogan Selected Spirituals\nLeonard Bernstein Excerpts from MASS\nZ. Randall Stroope O Magnum Mysterium\nMorten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium\nRoland Woehr O Magnum Mysterium\nSamuel Barber Agnus Dei \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[tabs layout=”horizontal” nav_color=”accent2″ left_color=”accent8″ right_color=”accent1″]\n[tab icon=”” title=”Ensemble”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts\nConcert Choir\n The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts Concert Choir is a select ensemble of fifty singers\, grades nine through twelve. We maintain a rigorous performance schedule including an annual winter and spring concert at our high school’s residence. Our repertoire is varied including stalwart standards of the choral repertoire as well as contemporary\, multi cultural gems of the twenty first century. Some of our most recent repertoire included Poulenc’s Un soir de neige and Barber’s  Reincarnations. \n The Concert Choir has been privileged to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra in their annual MLK Tribute Concert as well as for their Holiday Christmas Concert. We have performed with notables such as Paul Simon\, Renee Fleming\, and Bon Jovi. We have also performed for the inauguration of city officials as well as for Governor Rendell and President Obama. Recently\, we performed for the Philly Pops in their Sinatra concert series and for the Philadelphia Music Alliance Gala. \n We have participated in National Invitational Choral Festivals where we have received Gold Medals and highest- ranking scores. \n The Concert Choir is committed to non profit institutions that serve humanity and is often called to offer their services in that capacity as choral musicians. \n Dorina C. Morrow is their director. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab] \n[tab icon=”” title=”Dorina Morrow”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nDorina C. Morrow\nDorina C. Morrow is a summa cum laude graduate of Temple University. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2009 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award and the Rockefeller Brothers Award for Excellence in Arts Education.\nShe was chosen to teach in South Africa as a member of the Kimberly Project\, an educational adventure sponsored by Temple University and the Eastman School of Music. \nMrs. Morrow is a sough-after choral clinician and conductor; she is the conductor of the All Philadelphia High School Choir that performs annually at the Kimmal Center and at the annual MLK Tribute Concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra\, She is a guest conductor at the annual Messiah performance at Tindley Temple. She also served for many years as choral director for the Summer Teen Choral Music Camp at the Kimmel Center. \nMrs. Morrow has taught in the Philadelphia Public School System for forty-one years. During this time\, she also assisted in curriculum writing and in professional development design and implantation. Presently\, she serves as Choral Director and Advanced Placement Music Theory Instructor at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts where she is also the Arts Department Chair.  \nMrs. Morrow sings professionally in the tri-state area. She has performed as a backup singer for Celine Dion and Michael Bolton. She has been a professional church and synagogue musician since her youth. Her alto soloist venues include: \nChestnut Hill Presbyterian Church\, Bala Cynwyd  Methodist church\, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church\, Wynnewood. Presently\, she sings at Main Line Reform Synagogue\, Beth  Elohim in Wynnewood. She has been a soloist with the Northeast Symphony\, the Reading Choral Society\, the Hazeltown Oratorio Society\, the Delaware Symphony\, and the Main Line Symphony Orchestra. \nDorina has been married to William for forty years; he is also a professional singer and a former Philadelphia music educator. They have two daughters\, Elizabeth and Sarah\, and one grand son\, Alexander William. They reside in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab]\n[/tabs] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/capa-choir/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Season
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SUMMARY:The Tallis Scholars
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe Tallis Scholars\nVenetian Voices: The Splendors of San Marco\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe world-renowned Tallis Scholars return to Concerts at the Cathedral Basilica fresh from their Carnegie Hall appearance with a program featuring signature choral works written expressly for Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Along with Director Peter Phillips\, prominent organist Daniel Hyde joins the Scholars\, bringing the Cathedral Basilica organ to life in a wide-ranging program highlighting 15th and 16th century composers who played major roles in the musical life of the famed “Church of Gold\,” and contributed to the development of the unique choral style that emerged there. \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/tallis/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe Tallis Scholars\nPeter Phillips\, Artistic Director\nDaniel Hyde\, Organ\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nProgram to Include\nAndrea Gabrieli Ricercar del primo tono\nAdrien Willaert Ave virgo sponsa Dei\nGiovanni Palestrina Laudate pueri Dominum\nTomás Luis de Victoria Salve regina\nCipriano de Rore Descendi in hortum meum\nGiovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo omnis terra \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[tabs layout=”horizontal” nav_color=”accent2″ left_color=”accent8″ right_color=”accent1″]\n[tab icon=”” title=”Ensemble”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nTHE TALLIS SCHOLARS \nDirector\, Peter Phillips\, founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973. Through recordings and concert performances\, the ensemble has established itself as the leading exponent of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the group to create\, through good tuning and blend\, the purity and clarity of sound that he feels best serves the Renaissance repertoire\, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars has become so widely renowned. \nThe Tallis Scholars perform in both sacred and secular venues\, usually giving around 70 concerts each year across the globe. In 2013 the group celebrated their 40th anniversary with a world tour performing 99 events in 80 venues in 16 countries and travelling sufficient air-miles to circumnavigate the globe four times. The group kicked off the year with a spectacular concert in St Paul’s Cathedral\, London\, including a performance of Thomas Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in alium and the world premieres of works written specially for them by Gabriel Jackson and Eric Whitacre. Their new recording of the Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas by the 16th Century Tudor composer\, John Taverner\, was released on the exact anniversary of their first concert in 1973 and enjoyed six weeks at number one in the UK Specialist Classical Album Chart. \nThe Tallis Scholars’ career highlights include a tour of China in 1999\, including two concerts in Beijing; and the privilege of performing in the Sistine Chapel in April 1994 to mark the final stage of the complete restoration of the Michelangelo frescoes\, broadcast on Italian and Japanese television. The ensemble has commissioned many contemporary composers during their history: in 1998 they celebrated their 25th Anniversary with a special concert in London’s National Gallery\, premiering a Sir John Tavener work written for the group and narrated by Sting. A further performance was given with Sir Paul McCartney in New York in 2000. The Tallis Scholars are broadcast regularly on radio (including performances from the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 2007\, 2008\, 2011 and 2013) and have also been featured on the acclaimed ITV program The Southbank Show. \nMuch of The Tallis Scholars reputation for their pioneering work has come from their association with Gimell Records\, set up by Peter Phillips and Steve Smith in 1980 solely to record the group. In February 1994 Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars performed on the 400th anniversary of the death of Palestrina in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore\, Rome\, where Palestrina had trained as a choirboy and later worked as Maestro di Cappella. The concerts were recorded by Gimell and are available on both CD and DVD. \nRecordings by The Tallis Scholars have attracted many awards throughout the world. In 1987 their recording of Josquin’s Missa La sol fa re mi and Missa Pange lingua received Gramophone magazine’s Record of the Year award\, the first recording of early music ever to win this coveted award. In 1989 the French magazine Diapason gave two of its Diapason d’Or de l’Année awards for the recordings of a mass and motets by Lassus and for Josquin’s two masses based on the chanson L’Homme armé. Their recording of Palestrina’s Missa Assumpta est Maria and Missa Sicut lilium was awarded Gramophone’s Early Music Award in 1991; they received the 1994 Early Music Award for their recording of music by Cipriano de Rore; and the same distinction again in 2005 for a recording of music by John Browne. The Tallis Scholars were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2001\, 2009 and 2010. In 2012 their recording of Josquin’s Missa De beata virgine and Missa Ave maris stella received a Diapason d’Or de l’Année and in their 40th anniversary year they were welcomed into the Gramophone ‘Hall of Fame’ by public vote. \nThese accolades and achievements are continuing evidence of the exceptionally high standard maintained by The Tallis Scholars\, and of the dedication to one of the great repertoires in Western classical music.  \n[/column_1]\n[/tab] \n[tab icon=”” title=”Peter Phillips”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nPeter Phillips has made an impressive if unusual reputation for himself in dedicating his life’s work to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony. Having won a scholarship to Oxford in 1972\, Peter Phillips studied Renaissance music with David Wulstan and Denis Arnold\, and gained experience in conducting small vocal ensembles\, already experimenting with the rarer parts of the repertoire. He founded the Tallis Scholars in 1973\, with whom he has now appeared in over 2000 concerts and made over 60 discs\, encouraging interest in polyphony all over the world. As a result of his work\, through concerts\, recordings\, magazine awards and publishing editions of the music and writing articles\, Renaissance music has come to be accepted for the first time as part of the mainstream classical repertoire. The Tallis Scholars celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2013 with 99 concerts\, worldwide. \nApart from the Tallis Scholars\, Peter Phillips continues to work with other specialist ensembles. He has appeared with the BBC Singers\, the Collegium Vocale of Ghent and the Netherlands Chamber Choir\, and is currently working with the Choeur de Chambre de Namur\, Intrada of Moscow\, Musica Reservata of Barcelona and El Leon de Oro of Orviedo. He gives numerous master-classes and choral workshops every year around the world – amongst other places in Rimini (Italy)\, Evora (Portugal) and Barcelona (Spain). In 2014 he launched the London International A Cappella Choir Competition in St John’s Smith Square\, attracting choirs from all over the world. \nIn addition to conducting\, Peter Phillips is well-known as a writer. For 32 years he has contributed a regular music column (as well as one\, more briefly\, on cricket) to The Spectator. In 1995 he became the owner and Publisher of The Musical Times\, the oldest continuously published music journal in the world. His first book\, English Sacred Music 1549–1649\, was published by Gimell in 1991\, while his second\, What We Really Do\, an unblinking account of what touring is like\, alongside insights about the make-up and performance of polyphony\, was published in 2003 and again in 2013. \nPeter Phillips has made numerous television and radio broadcasts. Besides those featuring The Tallis Scholars (which include live broadcasts from the 1988\, 2001\, 2003\, 2007\, 2008\, 2011\, 2013 and 2014 BBC Proms)\, he has appeared several times on the BBC’s Music Weekly and on the BBC World Service\, on Kaleidoscope (BBC Radio 4)\, on Today (BBC Radio 4)\, National Public Radio in the US and on German\, French\, Italian\, Spanish and Canadian radio\, where he has enjoyed deploying his love of languages. In 1990 ITV’s The South Bank Show featured Peter’s ‘personal odyssey’ with the Tallis Scholars; while in 2002 a special television documentary was made for the BBC about the life and times of William Byrd. \nPeter has recently been appointed a Reed Rubin Director of Music and Bodley Fellow at Merton College\, Oxford\, where the new choral foundation he helped to establish began singing services in October 2008. They gave their first live broadcast on BBC Radio Three’s Choral Evensong in October 2011. In 2005 Peter Phillips was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture\, a decoration intended to honour individuals who have contributed to the understanding of French culture in the world. \nwww.tallisscholars.co.uk \nwww.tsss.co.uk \n[/column_1]\n[/tab]\n[/tabs] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/the-tallis-scholars/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Season
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SUMMARY:Christmas at the Cathedral Basilica
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nChristmas at the Cathedral Basilica\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nCathedral Choir\nArchdiocesan Choir\nArchdiocesan Girl Choir\nArchdiocesan Boy Choir\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe choirs of the Cathedral Basilica and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia join forces in beautiful carols and the traditional music of Christmas. Resounding brass add to the spectacle as hundreds of voices sing in celebration of festive season! \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/cathedral-christmas-celebration/details” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/christmas-at-the-cathedral-basilica/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Season
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SUMMARY:Westminster Williamson Voices
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nWestminster Williamson Voices\n[/column] \n[blank h=”10″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nPärt the Mystic\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nConductor James Jordan and the Westminster Williamson Voices continue a close relationship with Concerts at the Cathedral Basilica as they return with a stunning work by renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The composer was captivated and inspired by the text of an early Orthodox hymn\, the Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ\, and the creative process for this evening-length work spanned two years of the composer’s life. According to Pärt\, “The ‘time we spent together’ was extremely enriching. That may explain why this music means so much to me.” The evening offers an immersive exploration of the singular voice of this pre-eminent contemporary choral composer\, led by one of the most prominent and published authorities in the current choral field. \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/westminster-williamson-voices/details” linkTarget=”_blank” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nWestminster Williamson Voices\nJames Jordan\, Conductor\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nProgram to Include\nArvo Pärt Kanon Pokajanen \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[tabs layout=”horizontal” nav_color=”accent2″ left_color=”accent8″ right_color=”accent1″]\n[tab icon=”” title=”Ensemble”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nWestminster Williamson Voices\nThe Grammy® nominated WESTMINSTER WILLIAMSON VOICES named for the founder of Westminster Choir College\, John Finley Williamson\, has been praised by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. A community of singers\, the ensemble\, founded by James Jordan\, has quickly distinguished itself on the international choral stage for its distinctive artistry\, wide palette of choral colors\, critically reviewed recordings\, educational outreach and its mission to perform new music. The choir has additionally distinguished itself as a living choral laboratory.  The ensemble uniquely uses chant as the center of its musicianship study and performance. This emphasis has grown out of its residency and study at the Choral Institute at Oxford. The choir has embarked on a three-year project studying the performance practice and spirituality surround the works of Arvo Pärt. \nReviewers on both sides of the Atlantic are of one voice in praising the ensemble for its world premiere recordings on the Naxos label. Its recording Living Voices debuted on the Billboard charts. Gramophone magazine has described the Westminster Williamson Voices as an ensemble of “intimate and forceful choral artistry\,” with a tone that is “controlled and silken in sustained phrases as they are vibrantly sonorous in extroverted material.” TheAmerican Record Guide praised the ensemble as “without peer.” The Choral Journal has described the Westminster Williamson Voices as an ensemble of “supreme artistry” and a choir that performs with “truth and precision.” And from a publication of the Arvo Pärt Project in 2014: “The Westminster Williamson Voices under his (Jordan’s) direction “are coming into their own in the American choral scene both here and abroad.”  In 2013\, the ensemble received a GRAMMY nomination for its recording on the Naxos label in the category of Best Choral Performance. It was the first small ensemble at the University level to receive such a nomination. \nIn July\, 2013\, the Westminster Williamson Voices had the unique privilege of performing as part of the world Britten 100 celebration\, the “ 50th anniversary “re-enactment performance” of the original premiere of St. Nicolas in the Lancing College Chapel in Sussex\, where the piece was premiered with the composer conducting.  That concert was attended by representatives of HRH Queen Elizabeth and members of Parliament and was conducted by James Whitbourn.  As part of that performance\, with the Bernardi Chamber Orchestra\, the choir performed the world premiere of Agnus Dei by James Whitbourn with the composer conducting. This past summer\, the choir performed the 50th Anniversary performance of the Bernstein Chichester Psalms on the exact day of its premiere\, under British conductor Daniel Hyde. In 2013\, the choir also gave its UK debut performance at Oxford as part of the Westminster Choral Institute at Oxford and the SJE Artist series. The choir also performed as part of the SJE Artist Series\, performing Annelies under the direction of the composer with renowned British soprano Elin Manahan Thomas in 2014. \nThe ensemble has clearly established itself as a voice of composers of our time\, and it has been acclaimed for its creative programming and collaborations with other art forms. Most notable were the ensemble’s performance at The Philadelphia Cathedral of Eric Whitacre’sLeonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine with the renowned Spiral Q Puppet Theater and the premiere of James Whitbourn’s Luminosity with The ArcheDream Blacklight Dance Theater Company of Philadelphia. \nThe choir has premiered more than 50 choral works and presented several early performances and premieres by noted composers Jackson Hill\, William Duckworth\, Paul Mealor\, Tarik O’Regan\, Roger Ames\, Robert Moran\, Blake Henson\, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi\, Ugis Praulins\, Gerald Custer\, James Whitbourn\, Thomas Lavoy\, Cortlandt Matthews\, Peter Relph\, Dan Forrest and Kile Smith.  It has premiered three major works by British composer James Whitbourn that have brought international attention.  In 2007\, it performed the world premiere of the chamber version of Annelies\, the first major choral setting of the diary of Anne Frank.  In 2008\, it shared in a commission of Luminosity\, a work for triple choir\, dancers\, viola solo\, organ and tampura. In 2010\, the choir premiered Whitbourn’s Requiem Canticorum. Past seasons have also included performances of the Mozart Requiem in D Minor with an orchestra composed of students from The Curtis Institute conducted by Daniel Stewart and Debussy’s Nocturnes with The Princeton Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rossen Milanov. In 2013\, the choir performed the United States premieres in Princeton and New York of Paul Mealor’s  Crucifixus for choir\, orchestra and baritone soloist.  The composer\, writing of those performances\, says of the choir: “Williamson Voices sing with delicate sensitivity\, radiant warmth and create a truly sensuous sound.” \nIn April 2014\, the choir made its Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall performing James Whitbourn’s Annelies. In 2015\, as the choir in residence at the Choral Institute of Oxford\, the choir performed with the renowned Choir of New College\, Oxford under the direction of Edward Higginbottom.  The choir also was conducted by Oxford conductors Stephen Darlington (Christ Church College) and Daniel Hyde (Magdalen College). \nThe Westminster Williamson Voices has also assembled an impressive recorded discography. It has recorded more than 40 choral masterworks on the Teaching Music through Performance CD box sets that are used by conductors around the world as models of choral performance.  The ensemble can also be seen and heard in the DVD The Empowered Choral Rehearsal: Choral Masterclasses with Simon Carrington. The choir has six world premiere recordings to its credit. Annelies\, by James Whitbourn\,;performed with The Lincoln Trio; Arianna Zukerman\, soprano and Bharat Chandra\, clarinet; was released by Naxos in January of 2013.  London’s Guardian newspaper said of the recording “ The performance as a whole “is well prepared and palpably committed as befits a premiere recording.”  Gramophone has lauded Westminster Williamson Voices on the Anneliesrecording as “exhilarating” and described the ensemble as singing “with a precision and finesse normally found in the best of the UK’s large chamber choirs.”  In the spring of 2015\, the choir premiered Thomas LaVoy’s Songs of the Questioner. In the spring of 2016\, it performed two premieres of works by composer Dan Forrest in addition to completing another volume of recordings for the Teaching Music through Performance Series. \nNovember 19\, 2016\, it will perform Arvo Pärt’s virtuosic Kanon Pokajanen\, “Canon of Repentence\,”  in the contemplative setting of the Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur. \nRecordings by the Westminster Williamson Voices can be found on the Naxos label\, and additionally on the GIAChoralworks label and on iTunes.  Online\, the choir can be heard and seen on the Westminster Williamson Voices YouTube channel. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab] \n[tab icon=”” title=”James Jordan”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nJames Jordan\, Director \nGRAMMY®-nominated conductor James Jordan is recognized and praised around the musical world as one of America’s pre-eminent conductors\, writers and innovators in choral music. He was described as a “visionary” by The Choral Journal\, which cited his book Evoking Sound as a “must read.” The most published musician/author in the world\, his 35 books form the canon for teaching of conductors and choirs world wide. At Westminster Choir College he is professor and senior conductor\, and conducts Westminster Schola Cantorum and the internationally acclaimed Westminster Williamson Voices. \nDr. Jordan has studied with the legendary conductors and scholars of the past 40 years\, including Elaine Brown\, Wilhelm Ehmann\, Frauke Haasemann\, Volker Hempfling and the renowned music psychologist Edwin Gordon.  His career as a conductor began as a finalist in the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition with The Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. \nHe has made two recordings of the music of James Whitbourn with the Westminster Williamson Voices on the Naxos label\, which have garnered wide critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Gramophone hailed him as a conductor of “forceful and intimate choral artistry\,” and regarding the GRAMMY-nominated recording of Annelies\, Choir and Organ wrote\, “Jordan’s instinctive understanding of the score makes this a profound and emotionally charged experience.”  The Westminster Williamson Voices has been acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic by reviewers and composers alike for its compelling sound and artistry. A friend to many of the world’s leading composers\, Dr. Jordan has premiered more than 40 choral works by the world’s leading composers\, among them Jaakko Mantyjaarvi\, Blake Henson\, Gerald Custer\, Thomas LaVoy\, Cortlandt Matthews\, Dan Forrest\, Paul Mealor\, Dan Forrest and James Whitbourn. \nDr. Jordan’s career and publications have been devoted to innovative educational changes in the choral art\, which have been embraced around the world. His research and writings have shaped far-reaching changes in the philosophy of music teaching and learning\, conducting pedagogy\, and the teaching of rhythm applying Laban Effort/Shape to both music teaching and conducting pedagogy.  In 2012\, he received the Iorio Research Prize from Rider University. His exclusive publisher is GIA Music (Giamusic.com)\, Chicago.  He is executive editor of the Evoking Sound Choral Series (GIA)\, whose extensive catalog of almost 200 works stands as among the largest and most comprehensive choral series in world. The most recent publications\, Discovering Chant\, Sound as Teacher and The Musician’s Breath have received wide critical acclaim.  This year\, Dr. Jordan will publish the only application of Gordon Music Learning Theory\, Inside the Choral Rehearsal\, a comprehensive 500 page text on all aspects of choral ensemble teaching and learning. \nHis residencies\, master classes and guest conducting have taken him throughout the United States\, Canada\, Europe and Australia. Among the institutions where he has taught master classes are The Curtis Institute\, Rhoades College\, the University at North Texas\, the University of Buffalo\, Temple University\, the University of Arizona\, the University of Aberdeen\, the Gordon Gesellschaft Duetschland and the U.S. Army Soldiers Chorus. He has conducted more than 30 all-state choirs\, and in 2009 he was named to the choral panel for The National Endowment for the Arts.  Dr. Jordan serves as director of the Westminster Conducting Institute\, one of the nation’s leading summer programs for the training and education of conductors. In the summer of 2013 he inaugurated\, with Co-Director James Whitbourn\, the Westminster Choral Institute at Oxford\, a unique partnership with St. Stephen’s House\, one of the Halls of Oxford University. Since its establishment in 2013\, this program has quickly established itself as one of the world’s leading programs for the teaching of choral artistry to choral conductors. \nThis year\, Dr. Jordan will make his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Stabat Mater of Paul Mealor in addition to premiering Mealor’s Symphony No. 1 at St. Machar’s Cathedral in Aberdeen Scotland. Dr. Jordan has been honored as a distinguished alumnus at both Susquehanna University and Temple University. He was awarded the distinguished Doctor of Music by the University of Aberdeen in Scotland in 2014 to honor his artistry and contributions to choral music throughout the world. The University\, established in 1485\, has awarded degrees throughout its history to only two Americans: Dr. Jordan and Morten Lauridsen. He also shares this honor with Gustav Holst\, Benjamin Britten and Dame Joan Sutherland. \nDr. Jordan’s lecture/teaching schedule and writings are detailed on his publisher’s website\, http://giamusic.com/jordan. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab]\n[/tabs] \n[/column]
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LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Season
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SUMMARY:Choral Arts Society of Washington
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nChoral Arts Society of Washington\nThe Art of the Italian Madrigal\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nAn exhilarating new season of choral music begins with an evening of artful songs of love and wit\, tracing the evolution of the Italian madrigal as it crosses 16th century Europe\, migrates into the British Isles\, and continues to the present. Led by Scott Tucker\, one of the most respected artists in American choral music\, the Chamber Singers of the Choral Arts Society of Washington offer a spectacular range of sumptuous music from Monteverdi and Palestrina to music of our own time by Morten Lauridsen and Jacob Druckman. \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/test-event-for-2016-17-season/” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe 16th century was a period of great expression and inventiveness by composers in Italy. The Madrigal form began as a literary movement in which composers explored the relationship of musical devices to “paint” and express text\, particularly poems of the great literary figures of their own and previous centuries such as Petrarch\, Tasso and Ariosto. Early performances of Madrigals were sung not in public concerts but at gatherings of the academic elite in societies dedicated to the study and discussion of science and the arts. \nThis program includes music of the earliest pioneers of the Madrigal form\, such as Arcadelt and Verdelot\, and shows how the form progressed in the hands of later masters such as Orlando di Lasso\, Gesualdo\, and Monteverdi. Finally\, we see the English Madrigal grow as an outcropping of the lighter Italian Madrigals\, just as\, back on the continent\, the Italians were turning their attention to opera. \n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nChoral Arts Chamber Singers\nScott Tucker\, Artistic Director\n[/column] \n[blank h=”30″] \n[/blank] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nProgram to Include\nMonteverdi Si\, Ch’lo Vorrei Morire\nWillaert O Dolce Mia Vita\nGesualdo Io pur respire in cosi gran dolor\nThomas Morley Sing We and Chant It\nThomas Weelkes Weep\, O Mine Eyes\nOrlando Gibbons The Silver Swan\nJacob Druckman The Faery Beam Upon You\nIrving Fine Have You Seen the White Lily Grow? \n[/column] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[tabs layout=”horizontal” nav_color=”accent2″ left_color=”accent8″ right_color=”accent1″]\n[tab icon=”” title=”Ensemble”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe Choral Arts Society of Washington\nThe Choral Arts Chamber Singersis a small vocal ensemble comprised of approximately 30 members of the Choral Arts Chorus. Launched on the occasion of Choral Arts 50thanniversary\, the creation of the Choral Arts Chamber Singers provides Choral Arts audiences with two types of experiences: One that defines the grandeur and magnificence of the symphonic chorus for which Choral Arts is known; and one that breaks the barriers created by that very genre. \nNow in their third season\, the Chamber Singers has performed at a private concert at The Embassy of Finland and was a featured performer at Music at the Phillips (The Phillips Collection). In the 2015-2016 Season the Chamber Singers celebrated the release of their first recording (a double-disc set of a collection of hymns by Charles Wesley-onein English and one in Spanish) with a recording release concert in October; joined the Pan American Symphony Orchestra on a Zarzuela program at Lisner Auditorium; partnered with American University on The Terezín Project which explored the unique role of the arts during and after the Holocaust; and presented The Imitative Game celebrating imitation in music. In 2016 the Chamber Singers will present The Art of the Italian Madrigal following the Italian Madrigal from 16th century Italy to settings of the text by contemporary composers at Historic Dumbarton Church and will perform selections from this program at Concerts at the Cathedral Basilica in Philadelphia. The Chamber singers will also present a new holiday program\, Christmastime in the City\, at Live! at 10th& G in Washington\, DCand perform their final concert of the season as part of the Concerts at Good Shepherd series in Burke\, VA. \nMembers of the Choral Arts Chamber Singers are selected based on their vocal prowess and sight reading abilities as well as their interest and availability. It is an inter-generational ensemble\, and includes members who are relatively new to the Choral Arts Chorus as well as singers who have been members for decades. In addition to volunteering as members of both ensembles\, many also volunteer for Choral Arts in other ways\, including holding roles in the Choral Arts Chorus leadership and serving as members of the Board of Directors or Young Patrons Steering Committee. They live throughout the D.C. metro-area\, and work in such sectors as primary\, secondary\, and music education\, government affairs\, law\, nonprofit\, or own their own businesses. \n[/column_1]\n[/tab] \n[tab icon=”” title=”Scott Tucker”]\n[column_1 width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nScott Tucker\n\n\n\nUnder Scott Tucker’s artistic leadership\, the acclaimed symphonic Choral Arts Chorus has expanded to over 190 singers\, and launched the Choral Arts Chamber Singers\, a small vocal ensemble in 2014. He maintains Choral Arts’ strong connection with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) as well as continuing Choral Arts reputation as a sought-after choral ensemble\, receiving invitations from a wide- range of guest contracts with such world-class artists and ensembles as The Philadelphia Orchestra\, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra\, Andrea Bocelli\, and Sir Gilbert Levine for Peace through Music “In Our Age.” \n\n\n\nTucker has prepared the Choral Arts Chorus for such conductors as Christoph Eschenbach\, Emil de Cou\, John Mauceri\, and Rossen Milanov to perform the NSO’s performances of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis\, Orff’s Carmina Burana\, Handel’s Messiah\, Hindemith’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d\, NSO Pops concerts of music by Danny Elfman from Tim Burton’s movies\, as well as Rachmaninoff’s The Bells for Vassily Sinaisky. He has also prepared large-scale symphonic works for other leading conductors including Peter Schreier\, Fabio Mechetti\, Daniel Hege\, Carl St. Clair\, Heiichiro Ohyama\, Lanfranco Marcelletti\, Jr.\, and Erich Leinsdorf. Most recently\, Maestro Tucker prepared the chorus to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand) for Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra on the 100th anniversary of the U.S. premiere with the orchestra; and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem for Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. \n\n\n\n\nDeeply committed to supporting new music\, Tucker continually programs world premieres\, Choral Arts commissions\, and performances of recently composed works. Prior to his tenure with Choral Arts\, Tucker commissioned and premiered more than 30 works from composers such as Ernani Aguiar\, Bernard Rands\, Steven Stucky\, Augusta Read Thomas\, Carol Barnett\, David Conte\, Libby Larsen\, and Chen Yi. \n\n\n\n\nIn addition to his Choral Arts activities\, Tucker is regularly invited to teach\, speak\, and conduct with a variety of local\, national\, and international organizations. Recent engagements include conducted a festival of singers from Virginia\, Delaware\, and Maryland for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)\, teaching at The Performing Arts Institute Summer Camp in Pennsylvania\, conducting a male choir of high school and collegiate singers in Boston\, MA for ACDA\, judging The Music in Our Schools Competition in Hong Kong\, China\, and speaking at the 2014 Chorus America Conference. In 2017 Tucker will conduct the Alexandria Symphony for their performance Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrior to his engagement with Choral Arts\, Tucker was the P.E. Browning Director of Choral Music at Cornell University\, where he directed the Men’s Glee Club and the Women’s Chorus\, in addition to overseeing the activities of the Cornell Chorale\, Chamber Singers\, and Sage Chapel Choir. During his 17-year leadership\, the Cornell choirs toured nationally and internationally: Tour highlights included an invitation to appear at the American Choral Director’s Association National Conference and a tour to Beijing\, Shanghai and Hong Kong\, China. The Cornell choirs collaborated with such acclaimed artists as Anonymous 4\, Peter Schreier\, and Samite and were featured on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion.” \n\n\n\n[/column_1]\n[/tab]\n[/tabs] \n[/column]
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LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Season
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SUMMARY:Les Canards Chantants Workshop
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nPerformance Workshop: Tallis’s 40-voice motet Spem in Alium\n\nPart of 1.500 Surround Sound\nSaturday\, 7 November\, 2015\n12.30pm-5.30pm workshop; 8pm concert\n$35 workshop fee\nFee includes concert ticket ($25 value)\, registration\, tea and coffee\, scores\, coaching\, and music history talk \nThomas Tallis’s 40-voice motet Spem in alium is widely considered to be the pinnacle of the large-scale renaissance polychoral style. As part of our new polychoral program 1.500 Surround Sound\, we are offering exceptional singers in the Philadelphia area the opportunity to explore and perform this astonishing piece of music with us\, in the gorgeous acoustic of the Cathedral Basilica in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania’s largest cathedral. \nWorkshop participants will sing alongside and be coached by the members of Les Canards Chantants in tutti sessions and sectionals\, working from a new edition of the score which represents the most recent scholarship.  The workshop will also include a talk on the history of the piece by musicologist Graham Bier\, and will culminate in an evening performance in the Basilica as the finale of 1.500 Surround Sound. \nParts and Qualifications: \nParts are available for the following voice parts and tessituras: \n\nsopranos – G2 clefs\, middle c up to soprano g\nmezzos/altos – C2 clefs\, g below middle c up to c above middle c\nlow altos/high tenors – C3 clefs\, d below middle c up to g above middle c\nlow tenors/baritones – C4 clefs\, d above middle c down to b a ninth below middle c\nbasses – F4 clefs\, f at the bottom of the bass staff up to b below middle c\n\nSingers can expect to perform 2-3 per part. \nPrior experience with consort singing or renaissance polyphony is desirable but not required; however\, choral experience and classical vocal training is expected. \nSingers must possess a good ear\, tuning\, rhythmic ability and vocal flexibility\, should be able to read music well and must be committed to thoroughly preparing their assigned part individually (scores will be provided in advance.) \nSingers do not need to possess an “early music sound”\, and will not be asked to sing off the voice or with a straight or restricted tone. Les Canards Chantants subscribes to a fully engaged\, healthy and flexible vocal production\, in which blend is achieved through attention to tuning\, unified vowels and phrasing. \nPriority will be given to students pursuing a degree in music. \nHow to Register: \nIf you would like to sing\, email us at canardschantants@gmail.com with the following information by midnight on Wednesday\, October 14: \n\nName\, email address and phone number\nPreferred voice part according the ranges listed above (if you’re not sure\, get in touch so we can advise you!)\nUniversity\, degree program and year\, if applicable\nBrief description of choral experience\nContact information of a reference who knows your voice (private teacher\, professor or director)\nVocal resume\, website\, audio/video (these are optional\, and will help us assign parts)\n\nAccepted participants will be notified as soon as possible after the application deadline. Scores and part assignments will be provided to all participants no later than Saturday\, October 17. Registration fee will be collected upon arrival on November 7. \nAny questions should be directed to canardschantants@gmail.com \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Tallis-Performance-Workshop-1.pdf” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”24″ icon=”folder-download” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Information Sheet[/button] \n \n[/column]
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LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n \nMansfield University Concert Choir\nDr. Peggy Dettwiler – Director\nProgram — (To be selected from the following) \nLaudar Vollio from Cortona laudario (13th-century Italian Manuscript)\nParry —I Was Glad\nBainton — And I Saw a New Heaven\nEsenvalds — O salutaris hostia\nAmes — I’ve Been in the Storm So Long\nMemle — O magnum mysterium \nChamber Singers\nSweelinck — Gaudete omnes \nWomen’s Chorus\nMacIntyre — Ave Maria \nMen’s Chorus\nSpiritual\, adapted Appling — We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace\nSibelius\, arr. Peggy Dettwiler — Finlandia \n[button id=”” style=”filled-small” class=”” align=”” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/mansfield-university-of-pennsylvania/” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent2″ font=”24″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[text_divider type=”single”] \nThe Director \n[/text_divider] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nPeggy Dettwiler is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Mansfield University in Mansfield\, Pennsylvania\, where she conducts the Concert Choir\, Festival Chorus\, and Chamber Singers\, and teaches choral conducting and methods.  Before coming to Mansfield\, she was a graduate assistant conductor to Donald Neuen at the Eastman School of Music\, where she received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting.  She also has a Master of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Master of Music Degree in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In addition\, she has studied orchestral conducting and appeared in concert in the Czech Republic and at the Oregon Bach Festival.  Dr. Dettwiler has chosen to seek degrees in these areas of music because she believes that the choral conductor must be an educator as well as a performer and must have a thorough knowledge of vocal pedagogy. \nDr. Dettwiler’s choral experience includes working with singers of all ages through university\, public school\, church\, and community choruses.  Prior to coming to Mansfield in 1990\, she was Director of Choral Activities at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio\, Texas\, and Choral Director at Mt. Horeb High School in Mt. Horeb\, Wisconsin.  She has served as a guest conductor and lecturer throughout the United States\, and she has given presentations at numerous ACDA and MENC Conventions. Her articles\, “Developing Aural Skills through Choral Warm-ups” and “Grading the Choral Ensemble….No More Excuses\,” were printed in the October 1989 and April 1995 issues of the Choral Journal published by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).  She has developed two pedagogical DVDs entitled\, “Developing a Choral Color Palette” and “Sing in Style.”  Dr. Dettwiler received the 2010 Elaine Brown Award for Choral Excellence from the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and was awarded 2nd place for the 2011 American Prize for Choral Conductors at the College/University level. \nDr. Dettwiler is past president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the ACDA and is the Pennsylvania representative on the Board of Directors for the National Collegiate Choral Organization. The Mansfield University ACDA Student Chapter\, which she advises\, was recognized as the Outstanding Student Chapter in the nation in 1997 and 2001 by the American Choral Directors Association\, and the Mansfield University Concert Choir has been invited each of the last twenty years to perform at state\, regional\, national\, or international choral conventions. \nIn 2008\, the Concert Choir won the World Championship in the Gospel & Spiritual Category at the World Choir Games in Graz\, Austria. In 2011\, the Concert Choir won first place and two second-place prizes at the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen\, Wales\, and was awarded the 2011 American Prize in Choral Performance for the College/University Division. This past summer the Concert Choir won three Gold Medals at the World Choir Games in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nDr. Dettwiler grew up on a farm in the Midwest and spent considerable time raising and showing horses and ponies. She has now settled in rural Pennsylvania with her husband\, Jürgen Thym\, Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, N.Y. They enjoy watching wildlife in their backyard along with their three cats\, Gilbert\, Gretel and Rossino. \n[/column] \n[text_divider type=”single”] \nThe Choir \n[/text_divider] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nThe Mansfield University Concert Choir is a highly select ensemble of singers\, representing some of the finest talent from the American Northeast. While the majority of the singers are undergraduate music majors\, membership is open to all students at the university through an audition process. \nThe group has achieved an impressive reputation of excellence\, having been chosen each of the last twenty years to perform at conventions or festivals around the world: the Pennsylvania Music Educators State Conference; the Eastern Division Music Educators National Conference; the Music Educators National Convention; the American Choral Directors Association Pennsylvania State Conference\, the ACDA Eastern Division Convention\, and for The Sound of Music in Carnegie Hall! They also performed at the Inaugural Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization in San Antonio\, Texas\, and for the third NCCO Conference at Yale University. \nOn the international stage\, the choir was a finalist in the Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choral Festival in Tours\, France; a winner of a Gold Medal and a special prize for “Artistic Interpretation” at the Robert Schumann International Choir Competition in Zwickau\, Germany; and they placed fourth in the International Choir Competition in Varna\, Bulgaria. \nIn 2008\, the Concert Choir won the Championship in the Gospel & Spiritual Category and placed second among 36 choirs in the Mixed Youth Choir Category at the World Choir Games in Graz\, Austria. \nIn 2011\, the group won first place and two second-place prizes at the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen\, Wales\, and was awarded the 2011 American Prize in Choral Performance for the College & University Division. Most recently\, the Concert Choir won three gold medals at the 2012 World Choir Games in Cincinnati\, OH. \nThe singers are frequently praised for the emotional spectrum in their performances\, their diverse vocal color\, and their varied repertoire. \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/mansfield-university-of-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,The Basilica Collegiate Series
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SUMMARY:Tenebrae Choir of London
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”left” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/tenebrae/” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”20″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \nTenebrae Choir of London\nNigel Short – Director\nProgram:\nLobo – Versa est in luctum\nVictoria – Tenebrae Responsories\nAllegri – Miserere\nPadilla –  Missa Ego flos campi \nIntermission \nReger – Der mensch lebt und bestehet\nBrahms – Fest und gedenkspruche Op 109\nBruckner – Ave Marie\nBruckner – Virga Jesse\nBruckner – Christus factus est\nBrahms – Drei motetten Op 110\nReger – Nachtlied \n[/column] \n[text_divider type=”single”] \nThe Choir \n[/text_divider] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nDescribed as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine)\, award-winning choir Tenebrae\, under the direction of Nigel Short\, is one of the world’s finest vocal ensembles renowned for its passion and precision. “There is a hunger for what this finely polished group has to offer.” – The New York Times \n[/column] \n[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Tenebrae\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Tenebrae\n				\n			\n		\n\n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/tenebrae-choir-of-london-2/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:2015-2016 Season,Concert
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SUMMARY:Sidney Sussex Choir
DESCRIPTION:[column parallax_bg=”disabled” parallax_bg_inertia=”-0.2″ extended=”” extended_padding=”1″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”” background_position=”” background_size=”auto” background_attachment=”” background_video=”” vertical_padding_top=”0″ vertical_padding_bottom=”0″ more_link=”” more_text=”” left_border=”transparent” class=”” id=”” title=”Sussex College Choir” title_type=”single” animation=”none” width=”1/1″ last=”true”] \n[portfolio layout=”static” nopaging=”false” column=”2″ max=”0″ title=”false” desc=”false” more=”Enlarge” group=”true” cat=”sussex” ids=””] \n[/portfolio] \n[/column] \nSidney Sussex Choir\nDavid Skinner – Director \nChoir of Sidney Sussex College\, Cambridge SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE rose from the ruins of the Cambridge Greyfriars in 1596 and has long been a nest for professional musicians. Indeed the large chapel that stood on this site in pre-Reformation times was the regular venue for University ceremonies and was the venue where a number of early English composers took their degrees\, including Robert Fayrfax (MusB\, 1501; DMus 1504) and Christopher Tye (MusB\, 1536). One of the earliest musicians in the College was the Royalist pamphleteer\, author\, and violist Roger L’Estrange (1616–1704)\, whose family were patrons of the composer John Jenkins. Earlier still\, the great Elizabethan composer William Byrd would have been well-known to the foundress\, Lady Frances Sidney\, and indeed two very fine elegies by Byrd survive for her nephew\, the poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney. Currently resident in the College is Dr Christopher Page (1991)\, founder and former director of the multi-award-winning Gothic Voices\, and Dr David Skinner (2006) who is director of the early music ensemble Alamire\, and Sidney’s first Director of Music. \nThe Choir’s first recording with Obsidian was Thomas Tomkins ‘These Distracted Times’ with Fretwork and Alamire\, which was awarded Editor’s Choice and CD of the Month in the Gramophone. Their most recent was music by Thomas Weelkes\, also with Fretwork\, which was nominated for a Gramophone Award in 2014. \nThe choir has since gone on to record and tour a number of innovative programmes\, and frequently tours throughout Europe and the USA. The YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HPzNE4mM7c– is of a live recording from Souvigny Music Festival\, France\, last September; the choir can also be found on Spotify. \n   \n[column parallax_bg=”disabled” parallax_bg_inertia=”-0.2″ extended=”” extended_padding=”1″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”” background_position=”” background_size=”auto” background_attachment=”” background_video=”” vertical_padding_top=”0″ vertical_padding_bottom=”0″ more_link=”” more_text=”” left_border=”transparent” class=”” id=”” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” width=”3/4″ last=”true”] \n[accordion collapsible=”true”] \nCambridge in America\nCambridge in America is delighted to announce the Choir of Sidney Sussex College will be touring the East Coast of the USA from June 26th to July 16th 2015\, following its tours of Austria and Rome. The Choir already has exciting dates confirmed at Carnegie Hall and the National Cathedral\, in addition to events in Baltimore\, Boston\, and Northern Virginia (for the current program of confirmed dates\, see below). The choir’s director\, Dr David Skinner\, is a noted musicologist and choral conductor (see www.alamire.co.uk) and specializes in repertoire of the 16th century but strives to maintain a balance from all musical periods\, creating varied and interesting programs. The choir’s recent recordings have achieved significant critical acclaim\, winning a BBC Music Award and more recently nominated and shortlisted for a Gramophone Award. The choir has a further album of Croft anthems due for release in Spring 2015. Recordings from the choir may be found on Spotify and YouTube; more background on the recent history of the choir may be found in the most recent edition of the Sidney Sussex College newsletter\, Pheon. \n\n[pane title=”Cambridge in America” background_image=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sussex2.jpg”] \nCambridge in America\nCambridge in America is delighted to announce the Choir of Sidney Sussex College will be touring the East Coast of the USA from June 26th to July 16th 2015\, following its tours of Austria and Rome. The Choir already has exciting dates confirmed at Carnegie Hall and the National Cathedral\, in addition to events in Baltimore\, Boston\, and Northern Virginia (for the current program of confirmed dates\, see below). The choir’s director\, Dr David Skinner\, is a noted musicologist and choral conductor (see www.alamire.co.uk) and specializes in repertoire of the 16th century but strives to maintain a balance from all musical periods\, creating varied and interesting programs. The choir’s recent recordings have achieved significant critical acclaim\, winning a BBC Music Award and more recently nominated and shortlisted for a Gramophone Award. The choir has a further album of Croft anthems due for release in Spring 2015. Recordings from the choir may be found on Spotify and YouTube; more background on the recent history of the choir may be found in the most recent edition of the Sidney Sussex College newsletter\, Pheon. \n\n[/pane] \n[pane title=”Tour Dates” background_image=”undefined”] \nComplete tour dates:\nMonday\, June 29: Center for Music and Liturgy Inaugural Concert and Launch Event\, Carnegie Hall\, New York Thursday\, July 2: Evening Concert\, Virginia Theological Seminary\, Alexandria VA Friday\, July 3: Evening Concert\, Trinity Episcopal Church\, Staunton VA Sunday\, July 5: Sung Eucharist\, Trinity Episcopal Church\, Staunton VA Sunday\, July 5: Evensong\, Trinity Episcopal Church\, Staunton VA Tuesday\, July 7: Evensong\, National Cathedral\, Washington\, DC Sunday\, July 12: High Mass\, The Church of the Advent\, Boston (and alumni event\, details to follow) Wednesday\, July 15: Concert\, St Patrick’s Cathedral\, New York \n[/pane]\n[/accordion] \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/sidney-sussex-choir/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Basilica Collegiate Series
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SUMMARY:Choral Workshop with Dennis Keene
DESCRIPTION:Choral Workshop with Dennis Keene\nNew York’s most beloved choir celebrates its 25th Anniversary this season. They will present a special concert here in Philadelphia on TUESDAY\, May 19\, 2015 at 7 PM at the Cathedral Basilica of SS Peter and Paul\, 18th at Benjamin Franklin Parkway. For tickets: www.cathedralphilaconcerts.org.\nMr. Keene has agreed to stay over an additional day to present a choral workshop for the singers of the Philadelphia area and the Members of our AGO Chapter.\nLearn from the MASTER OF CHORAL MUSIC!! It will be an evening you and your singers will not forget.\nRegister TODAY to insure you get a spot and music! \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”http://pcagoo.memberlodge.org/event-1890781/Registration” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”16″ icon=”signup” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Register[/button] \n[team_member name=”Dennis Keene” position=”Founder and Director of Voices of Ascension\, Organist and Choirmaster of the Church of the Ascension” url=”http://voicesofascension.org/DennisKeene.aspx” email=”” phone=”” picture=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DennisKeene.jpg” googleplus=”/” linkedin=”” facebook=”” twitter=”” youtube=”” instagram=”” dribble=”” vimeo=””] \n[/team_member] \nDennis Keene is Artistic Director and conductor of the Voices of Ascension Chorus & Orchestra. Known internationally through his many concerts and recordings with Voices of Ascension; his regular guest appearances as conductor and clinician; and his work as Artistic Director of The Dennis Keene Choral Festival\, he has emerged as one of leading choral conductors in the world today. Recognized early as an exceptional organist\, Dennis Keene began musical studies and performing in his native Los Angeles. He moved to New York City to study at The Juilliard School\, where he earned the BM\, MM\, and DMA degrees and the coveted Gaston Dethier Organ Prize as a student of Vernon de Tar. Dr. Keene also studied privately in Paris with Marie-Madeleine Duruflé\, André Marchal\, and André Isoir. Dennis Keene was active as a recitalist until his interest in conducting led him to concentrate on that discipline. He subsequently studied conducting at the Pierre Monteux School for Orchestral Conductors\, with Charles Bruck in Paris\, and with John Nelson at The Juilliard School. His passion for the finest in professional choral music can be traced to his early work as organist with Gregg Smith\, Roger Wagner\, and Margaret Hillis. In addition to his work with Voices of Ascension and The Dennis Keene Choral Festival\, Dr. Keene continues as Organist and Choirmaster of Church of the Ascension in New York City. He served for many years on the Board of Directors of Chorus America\, the national service organization for the choral field\, which honored him with the first Louis Botto Award for “innovative action and entrepreneurial zeal in developing a professional ensemble of exceptional artistic quality.” He has also served on the Choral Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts and on the Music Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. From 1998 to 2003 Maestro Keene presented a major summer institute for the training of conductors and singers: The Dennis Keene Choral Festival\, in Kent\, Connecticut. In 1993 he began his recording association with Delos International\, with which he has recorded such best-selling CD’s as Beyond Chant\, The Duruflé Album\, and the Berlioz Te Deum. This series of highly acclaimed recordings with Voices of Ascension has secured international recognition for both conductor and chorus and become the standard for first-ranked ensembles worldwide.
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/choral-workshop-with-dennis-keene/
LOCATION:Wayne Presbyterian Church\,  125 E. Lancaster Ave. \, Wayne\, PA\, 19087\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Voices of Ascension
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/2″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n \n\nDennis Keene– Artistic Director and Conductor \nVoices of Ascension \nSelections include:  \nLotti – Crucifixus \nPalestrina – Super flumina Babilonis \nDesprez – Tu pauperum refugium \nVictoria – O magnum mysterium \nTallis – If Ye Love Me \nHeinrich Schutz – Die mit Tranen saen \nFull Program Listed Below \n\n          \n[/column] \n[column width=”2/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”left” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/voices-of-ascension/” linkTarget=”_blank” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”19″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n\nConcerts at the Cathedral presents one of America’s most beloved choral group\, The Voices of Ascension. Hailing from New York City\, The Voices of Ascension under the direction of Dennis Keene\, have gained international acclaim as one of the finest choral groups in on the World. \n“The chorus’s full-throated but unforced forte singing was thrilling\, but even more impressive was its characterful handling of the quiet writing that forms the heart of the [Duruflé Requiem]\, mellow and radiant.” \n– The New York Times \n[accordion collapsible=”1″]\n[pane title=”Workshop with Dennis Keene” background_image=”undefined”] \n  \n[column_1 width=”1/2″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nChoral Workshop with Dennis Keene\nMr. Keene has agreed to stay over an additional day to present a choral workshop for the singers of the Philadelphia area and the Members of our AGO Chapter. \nLearn from the MASTER OF CHORAL MUSIC!!  It will be an evening you and your singers will not forget.\n\nRegister TODAY to insure you get a spot and music!\n\n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/choral-workshop-with-dennis-keene/” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”16″ icon=”theme-info” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]More Information[/button]\n[/column_1] \n  \n[/pane] \n[pane title=”Program” background_image=”undefined”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”” link=”http://issuu.com/cathedralphila/docs/voa_webprogram” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”24″ icon=”book” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Program[/button] \n[/pane]\n[/accordion]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/voices-of-ascension/
LOCATION:PA
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SUMMARY:Mother's Day Concert
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”4/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nMother’s Day Concert\nDr. John A. Romeri – Conductor\nDr. Stephen Ball – Organist\nClara Gerdes – Organ Scholar\nCathedral Basilica Choir\nArchdiocesan Choir\nArchdiocesan Girls Choir\nArchdiocesan Boys Choir \nHowells\n Bruckner\n Stopford\n Bach\n Tallis\n Gounod\n Lotti \nConcert Program \nJoin the choirs of the Historic Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul as they present their 4th Annual Marian Concert. This concert\, honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary\, will feature works by prominent composers such as Howells\, Bruckner\, Bach\, Tallis\, Gounod\, and Lotti. \n                \n  \n[/column]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/mothers-day-concert/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T220000
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SUMMARY:To Be Certain of the Dawn
DESCRIPTION:Hear Us on the Radio \n[icon name=”radio” style=”” color=”” size=”40″ ] \nhttps://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/concertscathedralpaulus0315.mp3\n[column width=”3/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n \nJeffery Brillhart – Conductor \n \n  \nChamber Orchestra of Philadelphia \nDirk Brossé– Director \n[/column] \n[column width=”2/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”left” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/cathedral-basilica-/” linkTarget=”_blank” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”19″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[column width=”3/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nBryn Mawr Presbyterian Choir \n Jeffery Brillhart – Music Director \n[/column] \n[column width=”3/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \nCathedral Basilica Choir \n Dr. John Romeri – Music Director \nConcert Program \n[/column] \n\nElizabeth Weigle – Soprano \nSuzanne DuPlantis – Mezzo- Soprano \nWilliam Lim – Tenor \nRandall Scarlata – Bass \nElizabeth Shammash – Cantor* \nMichael Hogue – Cantor \n*Cantor on March 22\, 2015 at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian \nJoin the Choirs of Byrn Mawr Presbyterian and the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul as they join forces with the Internationally Acclaimed Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia as they present the Philadelphia Premiere of famed Holocaust Memorial Oratorio “To Be Certain of the Dawn” by Stephen Paulus. This Memorial Oratorio was commissioned in 2005 to commemorate two events; the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps and the 40th anniversary of the publication of Nostra Aetate (Latin for “ʺIn Our Times”ʺ)\, the seminal Vatican II document that condemned blaming Jews for the death of Christ. Join us as we celebrate these important events as well as the Cathedral Basilica’s 150th Anniversary.
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/
LOCATION:PA
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SUMMARY:Temple University Concert Choir
DESCRIPTION:[linkarea background_color=”” hover_color=”” href=”” target=”_self” icon=”radio” icon_color=”accent6″ icon_size=”62″ image=””] \nhttps://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cathedralconcerts0315.mp3\nListen to the WRTI Ad about the Temple University Concert Choir performing at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul on March 15\, 2015 at 3PM. \n[/linkarea] \n[column width=”1/2″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n \nTemple University Concert Choir\nDr. Paul Rardin– Director \nPROGRAM \nMartin- Mass for Double Choir\nBruckner- Os justi\nBruckner- Christus factus est\nBruckner- Ave Maria\nJackson- A Prayer of King Henry VI\nSzymko– Illumina le tenebrae \n[/column] \n[column width=”2/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”left” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/temple-university/” linkTarget=”_blank” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”19″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n\nThe Temple University Concert Choir presents Swiss composer Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir. One of the great masterpieces of the 20th century a cappella repertoire\, this piece is both modern and ancient at the same time\, weaving together chant-inspired melodies into an ethereal tapestry of harmony. The program also features works composed for great spaces by Anton Bruckner\, Gabriel Jackson\, Joan Szymko\, and Franz Biebl. \nCONCERT PROGRAM
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/temple-university/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150207T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150207T213000
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SUMMARY:Renaissance Candlemas
DESCRIPTION:Renaissance Candlemas\nVoices & Period Instruments\nFriday\, February 7\, 2014 | 8PM\nAngelic voices clothed in plush costumes\, singing some of the most beautiful motets and songs by the great Renaissance composers Monteverdi\, Gabrieli\, Victoria…accompanied by exciting period instruments in the sublime acoustics of the Basilica- all these combine to make this evening a perfect remedy for your “February blues.”
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/renaissance-candlemas/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141219T220000
DTSTAMP:20260417T021251
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SUMMARY:Handel's Messiah with Ama Deus Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/2″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n \nValentin Radu – Conductor\nAndrea Lauren Brown – Soprano\nJudy Kidwell– Mezzo- Soprano\nTimothy Bentch– Tenor\nEd Bara – Bass-Baritone \nPROGRAM \nHandel– Messiah \n[/column] \n[column width=”2/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”left” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/messiah/” linkTarget=”_blank” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”19″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n\nA Philadelphia Tradition! On original Baroque instruments\, Handel’s Messiah celebrates the Story of the Season. Bright trumpets\, grand voices of choristers and dazzling soloists stir\, awaken\, excite and uplift. From haunting melodies to the great “Halleluja Chorus”\, this is Christmas at its best!\n[layerslider id=”6″] \n[/layerslider]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/handels-messiah-with-ama-deus-ensemble/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141214T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T021251
CREATED:20141202T202917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141212T185812Z
UID:162-1418569200-1418576400@cathedralphilaconcerts.org
SUMMARY:Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers Sunday
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/2″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n\nSaturday\, December 13\, 2014 | 8PM\nSunday\, December 14\, 2014 | 3PM\nThe Philadelphia Singers\nDavid Hayes– Director \nPROGRAM \nHigdon– Deep in the Night\nGabrieli– In Eccelsiis\nPachelbel– Magnificat\nPinkham– Christmas Cantata\nHowells– Sing Lullaby\nHassler– Verbum caro factum est\nYoung– There Is No Rose of Such Virtue\nPilkington– I Wonder as I Wander\nBurt– Sing Along Carols \n[/column] \n[column width=”1/3″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”left” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/christmas/” linkTarget=”_blank” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”19″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \nThe Philadelphia Singers’ season kicks off in December with everyone’s favorite holiday tradition. This year’s concert will feature a brass quintet in beautiful pieces such as C.T. Pachelbel’s Magnificat and Giovanni Gabrieli’s In Eccelsiis. The concert will also feature TPS Jennifer Higdon’s composition Deep in the Night. Specifically curated to take advantage of the beautiful resonance of the Cathedral Basilica\, this concert is the quintessential celebration of the season! \n[layerslider id=”6″] \n[/layerslider]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/christmas-with-the-philadelphia-singers-sunday/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141213T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141213T220000
DTSTAMP:20260417T021251
CREATED:20141124T220924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141203T182040Z
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SUMMARY:Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers
DESCRIPTION:[column width=”1/2″ title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n \nSaturday\, December 13\, 2014 | 8PM\nSunday\, December 14\, 2014 | 3PM\nThe Philadelphia Singers\nDavid Hayes– Director \nPROGRAM \nHigdon– Deep in the Night\nGabrieli– In Eccelsiis\nPachelbel– Magnificat\nPinkham– Christmas Cantata\nHowells– Sing Lullaby\nHassler– Verbum caro factum est\nYoung– There Is No Rose of Such Virtue\nPilkington– I Wonder as I Wander\nBurt– Sing Along Carols \n[/column] \n[column width=”2/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”border” class=”” align=”left” link=”http://cathedralphilaconcerts.ticketleap.com/christmas/” linkTarget=”_blank” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent1″ font=”19″ icon=”ticket” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Buy Tickets[/button] \n[/column] \n[column width=”4/5″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] \n[button id=”” style=”filled-small” class=”” align=”” link=”https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/christmas-with-the-philadelphia-singers-sunday/” linkTarget=”_self” bgColor=”accent1″ hover_color=”accent2″ font=”21″ icon=”theme-info” icon_placement=”left” icon_color=””]Sunday Information[/button] \n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		WRTI Radio Ad	\n	\n	\n\n	\n[/column] \n\nThe Philadelphia Singers’ season kicks off in December with everyone’s favorite holiday tradition. This year’s concert will feature a brass quintet in beautiful pieces such as C.T. Pachelbel’s Magnificat and Giovanni Gabrieli’s In Eccelsiis. The concert will also feature TPS Jennifer Higdon’s composition Deep in the Night. Specifically curated to take advantage of the beautiful resonance of the Cathedral Basilica\, this concert is the quintessential celebration of the season! \n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		O Come\, O Come Emmanuel	\n	\n	\n\n	\n[layerslider id=”6″] \n[/layerslider]
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/christmas-with-the-philadelphia-singers/
LOCATION:PA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140129T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T021251
CREATED:20150609T193138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T194132Z
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SUMMARY:Sequentia of Paris
DESCRIPTION:Sequentia\nJanuary 29\, 2014 | 7:30PM\nBenjamin Bagby\, (Director) Voice\, Harp\nNorbert Rodenkirchen\, Flutes\, Harp\nWolodymyr Smishkewych Voice\, Organistrum \nSequentia Women’s Vocal Ensemble\nLydia Brotherton\nAgnethe Christensen\nEster Labourdette\nSabine Lutzenberger\nElodie Mourot\nChristine Mothes\nLena Susanne Norin
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/sequentia-of-paris/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T021251
CREATED:20150609T171512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150814T194859Z
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SUMMARY:Tallis Scholars of London
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, December 10th\, 2013 | 7:30PM\nJoin us for an evening of renaissance music by one of the world’s most respected renaissance groups. \n“The ROCK STARS of the Reaissance”…… The New York Times \n \nTallis Scholars Program 2013
URL:https://cathedralphilaconcerts.org/event/tallis-scholars-of-london/
LOCATION:Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul\, 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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