Cantemus, the Tri-Cities premiere women’s choir, opens its ninth season with a concert titled “Hodie.”
Artistic Director, Patty Denmark (director of choral activities at Dobyns-Bennett High School) has programmed a concert that will warm your heart towards the holiday season. It features various settings of the Latin text, “Hodie,” by composers Angelina Figus, Kevin A. Memley, Kelly-Marie Murphy and Carles Prat I Vives. Each composer’s unique style and merging of the text to music will move you to explore the meaning of “Hodie” from various perspectives.
Interspersed throughout the concert are familiar Christmas carols such as “Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” arranged by Shawn Kirchner, “I Saw Three Ships” arranged by Paul David Thomas, “I Wonder As I Wander” arranged by Ruth Elaine Schram, “Patapan” arranged by Audrey Snyder, and “Riu Riu Chiu” arranged by Erica Phare-Bergh. This concert also presents new choral settings to the familiar, traditional texts of “Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day” by Richad Burchard, “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks” by Craig Courtney and “Auld Lang Syne” by Mairi Campbell and David Francis.
Cantemus welcomes back collaborative artists Bryan Underwood (piano), Eileen Butler (flute), Larry Mueller (oboe) and Nicole Misterly (violin).
“Hodie” Is performed Friday, Dec, 16, at 7 p.m., First Broad Street United Methodist Church, Kingsport, Tennessee, and Saturday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m., State Street United Methodist Church, Bristol, Virginia.
Visit www.cantemuswomenschoir.org for more information.
