Concerts in Prague: Chanticleer: My Spirit Sang All Day

Chanticleer – An Orchestra of Voices
Called “the world’s reigning male chorus,” by the New Yorker magazine, Chanticleer will perform more than 100 concerts in 2007-08, the GRAMMY Award-winning ensemble’s 30th Season. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for their “tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity,” Chanticleer will tour to 22 states across the United States this season, including appearances at Walt Disney Concert Hall under the auspices of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. In January 2008, the ensemble will perform at prestigious venues in major European cities: Paris, Luxembourg, Bruges, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, and Vilnius. In Fall 2007, Chanticleer’s newest Christmas CD Let It Snow will be released by Warner. Let It Snow features the ensemble with the Chanticleer Holiday Orchestra performing such favorites as Feliz Navidad and The Christmas Song.

Cast
Eric Alatorre (Bass), Michael Match (Soprano), Brian Hinman (Tenor), Dylan Hostetter (Soprano), Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor (Bass), Michael McNeil (Soprano), Matthew D. Oltman (Tenor), Alan Reinhardt (Alto), Cortez Mitchell (Alto), Adam Ward (Alto), Todd Wedge (Tenor), Jace Wittig (Baritone)

Programm
I
• Sing Joyfully (William Byrd)
• Ave verum corpus (William Byrd)
• Ave regina coelorum (Giovanni de Palestrina)
II
• El grillo (Josquin des Pres)
• Mille regretz (Josquin des Pres)
• Scaramella va alla guerra (Josquin des Pres)
• Je ne me puis tenir d’aimer (Josquin des Pres)
III
• From the Path of Beauty (Chen Yi)
IV
• Heaven-Haven (Samuel Barber)
(A nun takes the veil)
• Quatre Petites-Prieres De St Francois D’Assise
(Francis Poulenc)

INTERMISSION
 
V
• I Have Had Singing (Steven Sametz)
• Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Gustav Mahler)
VI
• Papaine (Gyorgy Ligeti)
• Idegen Foldon (Gyorgy Ligeti)
• Magany (Gyorgy Ligeti)
VII

Chanticleer will conclude its program with its signature renditions of folk, jazz and gospel musi