40th Anniversary Season
Friends Eternal
March 8, 2025, 8:00pm March 9, 2025, 2:30pm
Cantori gives the US premiere of our Score Competition winner, The List of Sunken Ships, a deeply affecting wartime cantata by Ukrainian composer Alisa Zaika, on words by Ukrainian poet and combatant Serhii Zhadan. For chorus, baritone, speaker, and cello. Sung in Ukrainian. Zaika will attend and address the audience.
The concert also features 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, Friends Eternal enacts a hope of reconciliation after the ravages of the American Civil War. The program additionally includes a return to The Elements for chorus and two cellos by Philip Lasser. Hailstork and Lasser will attend and address the audience.
With Ari Evan, Madeline 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.
