November 8, 2019 - Friday at 7:30 pm
Cleveland Chamber Choir
Scott MacPherson, Artistic Director
Lux Caelestis: A Prism of Sacred Music
KRAMER          Lux Caelestis                 McDOWALL      Cecilia, busy like a bee
ALLEGRI          Miserere                         KACHELMEIER  O vos omnes
HILDEGARD    O Virtus sapiente

The Cleveland Chamber Choir provides audiences with exceptional performances of unique and diverse repertoire, blending music by living composers with six centuries of choral repertoire. Addressing relevant issues and universal emotions through music and poetry, this ensemble of professional voices offers a vibrant, dynamic, and thought-provoking listening experience.
Timothy Kramer’s Lux Caelestis - a song cycle of texts about light from five different religious traditions: Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Roman Catholic - illuminates different aspects of light, the eternal, God, and fire throughout: divine, powerful, creative, sacred, luminous, guiding, and loving.          https://www.clevelandchamberchoir.org

December 2, 2019 - Monday at 7:30 pm
Daughters of St Paul Choir
Christmas with the Daughters of St Paul

The Daughters of St Paul Choir has sold nearly one million albums since the formation of the choir in 1988. Pauline Books & Media division of  Pauline Records Choir is known for their fresh arrangements of time-honored classics. Their Christmas concerts communicate God's extraordinary love for every person. Well-loved carols and holiday favorites combine in a heart warming collection of both lively and moving songs that celebrates the glory, wonder, and joy of the Christmas season.
https://facebook.com/DSPchoir

February 21, 2020 - Friday at 7:30 pm
Schola Antiqua of Chicago 
Michael Alan Anderson, Artistic Director
Slavic Routes: Music from Renaissance Prague
(Works by: de Monte, Byrd, Harant, Gallus, Luython, Sales)

Schola Antiqua of Chicago, a professional early music vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of music before 1600. Founded in 2000, the ensemble is the 2012 winner of the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, which recognizes outstanding contributions to historical performing practices.
Currently artist-in-residence at the Lumen Christi Institute and formerly an artist in residence at the University of Chicago.
Schola Antiqua has released four commercial CDs on the Discantus and Naxos of America labels.
The group's music has aired on the national broadcasts of With Heart and Voice, Harmonia, and Millennium of Music.
This program is a musical tour of Renaissance Prague, featuring hymns, motets, plainchant, & madrigals from the Imperial Court & the Cathedral. The pieces give a sense of the immense stylistic range of the music that filled Prague's churches, houses, streets, and squares over 400 hundred years ago.
https://www.schola-antiqua.org

April 21, 2020 - Tuesday at 7:30 pm
Choir of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris France
Henri Chalet, Director

Founded in 1991 by the City of Paris and the Parisian Diocesan Association, Musique Sacrée at Notre Dame de Paris has the task of teaching music, training singers, organizing musical accompaniment of liturgy, proposing concerts and recitals, and carrying out research into the rich musical inheritance of Notre Dame Cathedral.  It also plays an important role in the creation of new musical works and in their circulation.  The first and central element is the Choir School of Notre Dame (Maîtrise), composed of the Children’s Choir, the Young Ensemble, the Adult Choir and the Gregorian Ensemble.
http://www.concertorganists.com/artists/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-france/

May 8, 2020 - Friday at 7:30 pm
Quire Cleveland
Dr Jay White, Director
Resonant Glory: Music for Grand Spaces

With the vision of building global harmony through performance & education, Quire Cleveland is dedicated to exploring, preserving, and breathing new life into nine centuries of choral music. Thier vibrant performance of choral music both ancient and new reveals the timeless humanity of this art form. Throughout the Renaissance, composers had the honor of writing music for specific choirs in unique churches and cathedrals around Europe. Northeast Ohio, having been settled by descendants familiar with such grand architecture, offers glorious spaces that lend themselves well to those ancient sounds. As the earth begins its return to life after the long winter, Quire Cleveland offers musical splendor to AWAKEN the soul, highlighting double choir treasures and works in which grand spaces truly live.
https://www.quirecleveland.org