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Kairos Fall A Cappella Concert - "Britten and Latin America"
Kairos: A Consort of Singers, under the direction of Edward Lundergan, presents a wonderful afternoon of spirited and beautiful choral music from Latin America, as well as music by Benjamin Britten in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth.
This delightful and varied program features Britten's gorgeous "Hymn to Saint Cecilia", a setting of a W. H. Auden poem dedicated to St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, as well as the rarely-heard "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam", settings of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins that Britten composed in Woodstock in the summer of 1939 while on an extended visit to the United States.
The Latin American portion of the program spans five centuries and includes music from Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, including "Ave Maria" (sung in Portuguese) by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos; "Libertango", a wonderful choral tango by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzola; the spirited and rhythmic "Salmo 150" by contemporary Brazilian composer Ernani Aguilar; and a Magnificat by the sixteenth-century Mexican master Hernando Franco.
Kairos: A Consort of Singers (Dr. Edward Lundergan, Artistic Director) is a select vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of unaccompanied choral literature from the Medieval to the present. The group is Artist-in-Residence at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York, and performs in the Hudson Valley and beyond. Kairos regularly performs the church cantatas of J. S. Bach as part of its popular Bach Cantata Series, now in its eighth year. Kairos also presents historically-informed performances of the great Baroque choral works each fall, including the Monteverdi "Vespers," Handel's "Dixit Dominus," and Purcell's "King Arthur". Kairos is celebrating its 19th anniversary as the premiere vocal ensemble of the Hudson Valley and recently completed recording its second CD, "The Valley Sings," featuring choral music by Hudson Valley composers. The CD was released on the MSR Classics label is currently available at www.kairosconsort.org, as well as at a variety of online vendors, including Amazon and iTunes.
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LocationHoly Cross Monastery (View)
Route 9W (1615 Broadway)
West Park, NY 12493
United States
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