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Duke Arts Presents

Chanticleer
Faith of Our Fathers

Friday, March 6, 2020 | 8:00 pm

Vocal Ensemble Series

Baldwin Auditorium


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March 5, 2020:
Update re: Chanticleer Friday, March 6

We look forward to seeing you at Duke Performances’ presentation of Chanticleer on Friday, March 6 at 8 PM at Baldwin Auditorium.

Four members of the twelve-member ensemble have come down with the flu and will be unable to perform at the concert.

Chanticleer will perform as scheduled with its remaining eight singers. The Faith of Our Fathers program will be slightly modified, with some wonderful additions from the ensemble’s Trade Winds program. Rest assured, the evening will have “the full Chanticleer effect.”

Thank you for your understanding.

Exchanges and refunds are available upon request. Please be in touch with the Duke University Box Office at 919.684.4444 or email tickets@duke.edu to request a refund or exchange, by Friday, March 6 at 6 PM.

Sincerely,
Duke Performances

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Now in its 41st year, Chanticleer remains at the vanguard of choral ensemble excellence in America. Founded by a musicology student who wanted to perform the music he was studying, Chanticleer has grown into a twelve-member group adept with ancient masters and modern commissions. Along the way the ensemble has received several major music prizes, including two GRAMMY awards and Ensemble of the Year from Musical America, all while continuing in Billboard’s Top 10 best-selling classical artists.

At Duke Performances Chanticleer brings a five-part program of sacred music, Faith of Our Fathers. The repertoire spans from Hildegard’s “O virtu sapientiae” in the 12th century, to English and American works, featuring highlights of the English renaissance and colonial American traditions, complemented by modern tributes to those styles. The choir stops briefly in the Spanish New World before concluding with Chanticleer favorites.

Program

Faith of Our Fathers (Sacred Program)

I.
Hildegard von Bingen: O frondens virga, from Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi by Josquin des Prez
Credo – Sanctus

II.
Peter Philips: Cantabant Sancti
William Byrd: Justorum animae
Jackson Hill: Were Soul to Speak
Orlando Gibbons: O Clap Your Hands

III.
William Billings, arr. William Fred Scott: Chester
Ned Rorem: Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love
Traditional hymn, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw: His Voice as the Sound
Ned Rorem: All Glorious God
John Cennick, arr. Alice Parker: Happy in the Lord

IV.
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla: Mirabilia testimonia tua
Antonio de Salazar: O sacrum convivium
Francisco Guerrero: Signasti Domine

V.
Kurt Weill, arr. Gene Puerling: Lost in the Stars
Traditional spiritual, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw: My God is a Rock
Doyle Lawson, Charles Waller, and Robert Yates, arr. Jennings: Calling My Children Home
Traditional gospel, arr. Rosephanye Powell: Oh, What a Beautiful City



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