Concert II: Sunday, November 14, 2010
Transition: From Babylon to Jerusalem
Congregation Shaare Emeth
11645 Ladue Road, Creve Coeur, Missouri 63141
Psalm settings inspired by J. S. Bach contrast powerfully with those by Salamone Rossi and Herbert Sumsion, while the Hebrews’ deliverance from Babylon is vividly depicted in Darius Milhaud’s cantata, Les Deux Cités. Contemporary tributes are provided through new works by Clare Maclean and Judith Bingham.

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Concert III: Sunday, December 19, 2010
Traditions: Christmas from Ancient to Modern
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
2650 Miami Street, South Saint Louis, Missouri 63118
Early Latin, English and German carols are sung in both medieval and modern arrangements, the latter provided by Howells and Vaughan Williams, Tchaikovsky and Walton. Two world premières from Yakov
Gubanov and Clare Maclean will be presented, and several works specifically written for the Chamber Chorus will receive repeat performances.

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Concert IV: Sunday, February 13, 2011
Translation: From Greek God to Everyman
Graham Chapel, Washington University
6445 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
Dramatic choruses from Sophocles’s Theban trilogy are heard in a world première from distinguished British composer Peter Aston, in another recent version by Ned Rorem and, from 16th century Venice, Andrea Gabrieli. We revive a choral ballet from 1915, The Great God Pan, by Sir Granville Bantock, that essays
an ancient Greek pastorale.

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Concert V: Sunday, April 17, 2011
Transfiguration: From Completion to Invention
St. Alphonsus Rock Catholic Church
1118 North Grand Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63113
Intriguing adaptations of prior classics by Bach, Gesualdo and Purcell are provided by Stravinsky, Sandström and John Rutter. Passionate madrigals by Monteverdi are ‘sanitized’ by Coppini, while manuscripts gnawed
by mice are newly reconstructed by Professor Craig Monson to reveal majestic motets by Gabriele Fattorini
(d. 1607).

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Concert VI: Sunday, May 29, 2011
Transcendence: From Here to Eternity
St. Peter Catholic Church
1243 West Argonne, Kirkwood, Missouri 63122
Haunting Requiems by Peter Cornelius and Jon Leifs complement two masterpieces from the demise of the ‘Belle Époque’: Parry’s Songs of Farewell and Gustav Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, heard
in 16-part arrangement by Clytus Gottwald.

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