Sunday, December 4, 3 p.m.
Trinity Church, Lenox, MA
All tickets are $20 and children are admitted free
Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance by email from satbchoir@yahoo.com
Reservations: 413-637-2440
LENOX, MA. — The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present a concert “The Inexpressible Miracle: Choral music for the Sacred Season” with music by Josquin and Russian composer Georgy Sviridov. The performance will be held on Sunday, December 5th, at 3 p.m.
Dazzling perfection, purity, and an absolute command of compositional form are found in Josquin’s Missa Beata Virgine from the late 15th century. This rarely heard choral masterpiece interweaves the mass text with prayers to the virgin and transports the listener to a peaceful and solemn realm. It truly captures the awe-inspiring nature of the holiday.
In keeping with its tradition of presenting monuments of Russian choral music, the Choir will also perform the New England premiere of the Inexpressible Miracle, a seven movement choral song cycle freely associated with the Christmas season by Georgy Sviridov. Considered to be the strongest contemporary link to Russia’s monumental musical past, Sviridov’s perennial Russian themes run through his work in abundant clarity and force: patriotism, depiction of nature and peasant life in all their rich and varied regional forms, and reflections on the great religious topics- love and repentance.
During the concert the audience will be invited to join the Choir in singing some of the most well loved carols of the Christmas season.
All tickets are $20 and children are admitted free. Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance by email from satbchoir@yahoo.com. Reservations: 413-637-2440. Trinity Church is located at 88 Walker Street in Lenox. Those interested in more information can visit www.cantilenachoir.org.
Now in its eighth season, the Cantilena Chamber Choir is the Berkshire region’s leading a cappella group. For the past three seasons it was heard on a special WMHT Christmas Eve radio broadcast of Lessons and Carols recorded at Trinity Church in Lenox. The Choir has collaborated with the New England Baroque Soloists, Aston Magna and The Empire Brass. Past season highlights include a program of Shaker songs performed for the Hancock Shaker Village 50th Anniversary gala; a concert of works by Shostakovich; an all-Berkshire composer concert; programs for children; and special benefits for the Lenox Library and the Berkshire Immigrant Center. Most recently the Choir appeared in a special presentation produced by WGBY TV in Springfield called “Together in Song,” a celebration of choral singing in Western New England.
The Cantilena Chamber Choir is under the artistic direction of Andrea Goodman who is also the Director of the Northern Berkshire Chorale in Williamstown and the Saratoga Choral Festival, an annual summer concert series for chorus and orchestra in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Andrea Goodman
Andrea Goodman, Director
Cantilena Chamber Choir
32 Bracelan Ct., Lenox, MA 01240
Saratoga Choral Festival
PO Box 291, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866
518-791-0185
www.cantilenachoir.org
www.saratogachoralfest.org
satbchoir@yahoo.com