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Chorus
Angelicus
In an annual season of twenty-five concerts the chorus performs a large and varied repertoire, from the classics of choral literature to contemporary and newly commissioned compositions. Performances have included collaborations with Gaudeamus, the Battell Chamber Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony, and the Paul Winter Consort in venues such as Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Boston’s Symphony Hall, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, and The Battell Stoeckel Music Shed, Norfolk, CT. Chorus Angelicus has toured to Florida, the Pacific Northwest, Nova Scotia, and Ireland, and is frequently invited to perform at international choral workshops and music festivals. Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus were selected to perform at the 1999 inauguration ceremony of the Governor of Connecticut, and the choirs were featured in a documentary by Connecticut Public Television to highlight the choirs’ extraordinary, inner-city concert series Music For A Great Space, free concerts in the architectural splendor of Connecticut’s most notable urban churches. NBC’s news special of the choirs’ beloved Christmas Angelicus concerts has resulted in the annual broadcast of the live performances of this Christmas concert series by National Public Radio. Chorus Angelicus shines in a compilation of vibrant global repertoire in the Pelagos release Untraveled Worlds. With songs from musical traditions as diverse as Serbia, Russia, South Africa and the Dominican Republic, this release has garnered rave reviews from music critics and significant airplay from radio stations throughout the country. The choir was also featured on the Telarc release, Dance On A Moonbeam, with Frederica von Stade, Dawn Upshaw, Meryl Streep, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Chorus Angelicus may also be heard on three earlier recordings: Christmas Angelicus, a celebration of the holiday season combining traditional and contemporary carols; Wondrous Love with Gaudeamus and The Battell Brass in performances of choral works by Paul Halley; and Voices of Light, the choir’s debut album with flutist Rhonda Larson.
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Gaudeamus GAUDEAMUS (Let us rejoice), a chamber choir of twenty-five professional and semi-professional singers, was formed by Paul Halley in the spring of 1992 to join Chorus Angelicus in the presentation of such choral masterworks as the “St. John Passion”, the “B Minor Mass”, Handel’s “Dixit Dominus”, and Britten’s “Saint Nicholas”. Gaudeamus and Chorus Angelicus together have developed a large following through their three principal concert series: Christmas Angelicus, Salute To America and Music for a Great Space. The Passiontide concerts by Gaudeamus alone have introduced its audiences to choral works of a more intimate, sacred nature, and its explorations of world music have resulted in exciting collaborations with musicians from around the globe. Gaudeamus participated with folk legend Pete Seeger on his Grammy Award-winning CD Pete, and subsequently won high praise from Billboard Magazine, Pro Audio Magazine, and high-end audiophiles the world over for its album of a cappella masterworks, Sacred Feast, recorded in surround sound for Sony/Pioneer. Link to www.chorusangelicus.org |
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