Spring Benefit Party
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Sveta
64 Carmine Street
New York City
Authentic Ukrainian Cuisine
Buffet dinner, open bar, entertainment, silent auction
Sponsor – $500 per person
Patron – $250 per person
Donor – $175 per person
Friend – $125 per person
40th Anniversary Season
March 8, 2025, 8:00pm March 9, 2025, 2:30pm
In March, Cantori performs the world premiere of our Chorus America Dale Warland commission, Friends Eternal, by longtime Cantori Advisory Board member Adolphus Hailstork, for chorus and three cellos setting a poignant text by 19th century poet George Moses Horton. The program also features the world premiere of our Score Competition winner, The List of Sunken Ships by Alisa Zaika and a return to The Elements for chorus and two cellos by Philip Lasser. With Ari Evan, Maddy Fayette, and Julie Lee, cellos.
Church of St. Francis Xavier, 46 West 16th street, New York, NY 10011
May 10, 2025, 7:30pm (one night only!)
40th Anniversary Concert at Merkin Hall
Kaufman Music Center, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
The final concert of the season will feature Cantori favorites for chorus and string quartet, including Gregory Spears’s The Tower and the Garden and Elisenda Fábregas’s The Flaming Rock. Anchoring the program is a new work by Laura Schwendinger titled Silent Springs, on a libretto by Ginger Strand and a reprise of the season opener In the Beginning by Aaron Copland. With the Bergamot Quartet and Gabrielle Barkidjija, mezzo soprano.
