Chanticleer
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The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as "the world's reigning male chorus" by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as "an orchestra of voices" for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Chanticleer's repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener's "Lamentations & Praises", and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled "Colors of Love". Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer.
Named for the "clear-singing" rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition "A Chanticleer Christmas".
Chanticleer's repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener's "Lamentations & Praises", and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled "Colors of Love". Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer.
Named for the "clear-singing" rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition "A Chanticleer Christmas".
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Without a Song
Music can lead us to places we never expected. It can inspire us forward, or it can hold us back. Music has been called both divine and diabolical. In Without a Song, Chanticleer explores music’s power throughout the ages. Repertoire includes medieval and Renaissance motets by Francesco Landini and Orlando di Lasso, a new work by the GRAMMY-nominated composer Ayanna Woods, and a new version of the jazz standard “Without a Song,” arranged by Stacey Gibbs.
A Chanticleer ChristmasFrom the candlelit chant procession to the triumphant gospel conclusion, A Chanticleer Christmas cleaves to our founder Louis Botto’s original vision of joy and transcendence through beautifully sung music of all centuries, from classical to carols. Join us as we celebrate the most wonderful time of the year!
ChoodandiCome listen to the music of a not-so-distant India through the ears of a second generation immigrant. Curated by our tenor Vineel Garisa Mahal, this concert will feature music ranging from Thyagaraja to Sid Sriram. We’ll explore not only how Indian music has changed and evolved, but also how perceptions of this “perfect” and “true” art form can change as well. Time and distance often bring perspective. Looking back across the generations, perhaps we’ll realize that music – and life – are less about perfection, and more about seeing the divine light that we each have inside ourselves.
Chanticleer and the FoxThe rooster Chanticleer must outwit the cunning Fox to save his barnyard friends. Based on the Caldecott-winning children’s book “Chanticleer and the Fox” illustrated by Barbara Cooney, and hearkening back to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the rooster’s story will be accompanied by a soundtrack of Renaissance madrigals and motets sung by San Francisco’s very own Chanticleer. This concert will be suitable for children of all ages and we encourage families to attend!
For more information, visit www.chanticleer.org
