CAE Yuletide: To Friends Old & New Program Notes
Holiday Favorites, Old and New When we polled our members last spring about favorite pieces to sing in our anniversary season this year, we were pleased that so many on the list fit perfectly into our...
View ArticleMasterworks Old and New Program Notes
How do we recognize masterpieces? Do they have to stand the test of time, and, if so, how much time? Do they represent the supreme achievements of artists in a class by themselves? Do they break new...
View ArticleBlest Pair of Sirens: Great English Choral Music Program Notes
Discovering Hidden Treasures England’s rich musical heritage reaches back well before the Renaissance and includes so many outstanding composers – yet too often choirs only concentrate on a few dozen...
View ArticleAnd on Earth, Peace Program Notes
As the year winds down and darkness closes in, we cherish the renewal that Christmas and a new year can bring. This evening’s concert offers music that is new in many different ways. We are proud to...
View ArticleCAE POPS! Songs and Hymns of America Program Notes
I Hear America Singing America’s musical heritage mirrors the contradictions of the nation’s history, for better and worse. In the 19th century, for instance, when most of the songs on our program...
View ArticleCAE Yuletide: Light Renewed Program Notes
“A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.” Scholars have translated this passage from the Gospel of John in various ways, but the words hold new significance now. People...
View ArticleStóir Amhráin Program Notes
A Wealth of Song While Celtic cultures in the British Isles and the European continent (including Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, and Galicia) have produced musical treasures for centuries, our concert...
View ArticleCircles: The Music of Timothy Takach Program Notes
“Only Music Keeps Us Here” The Choral Arts Ensemble is thrilled to present a full concert of music by Timothy C. Takach (b. 1978), including the world premiere of “Circles,” which we commissioned in...
View ArticleA World Anew: The Music of Sydney Guillaume Program Notes
This special concert introduces us, singers and audience alike, to the music of Sydney Guillaume and also to a language unfamiliar to most of us—Haitian Creole, or Kreyòl, as it is known in Haiti....
View Article“A Christmas Carol” Program Notes
Dickens and A Christmas Carol The most popular English novelist of the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) created stories that still draw readers and characters whose very names conjure...
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