Cantare Vocal Ensemble

Saturday March 10, 2012, 7:30 pm

St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral

1245 10th Ave E., Seattle

Cantaré Vocal Ensemble

Under the Direction of:

Mark Adrian, Artistic Director

Presents:

Gabriel Fauré's

Requiem

(Heaven)

(Earth)

Paul Winter's

Missa Gaia

Featuring St. Mark's Extraordinary

Flentrop Organ

In the spectacular setting of Seattle's St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Cantaré Vocal Ensemble performs two renowned works celebrating the magnificence of "Heaven and Earth". Accompanied by the Cathedral's extraordinary Flentrop organ, the program begins with Gabriel Fauré's beautiful Requiem symbolising "Heaven", followed by the "Earth" segment featuring Paul Winter's haunting Missa Gaia - highlighting percussion, saxophone, piano, oboe, cello, guitar, and bass accompaniment.

About Winter's Missa Gaia (from Wikipedia): The Earth Mass was one of the first contributions made by Paul Winter when he and his Paul Winter Consort became the artists in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The mass includes the usual text, such as the Kyrie and the Agnus Dei, and also other text, hymns, and instrumental pieces. The mass is an environmental liturgy of contemporary music. It features the instrumentation of the Paul Winter Consort along with a choir, vocal soloists, and the calls of wolves, whales, and many other animals that are woven into the pieces, sometimes used as the melody.

"Winter and company have achieved a distinguished triumph in combining divergent music styles and imaginatively wedding voices, instrumentation and recorded sounds of a tundra wolf, canyon and musical wrens, harp seals, a flight of loons and singing humpback whales." (The Boston Globe)

Tickets will be available at door approximately 30 minutes before the 7:30pm, Saturday March 10, 2012 performance. Tickets purchased at the door are $22 General Admission and $20 for Senior/Students.

About Cantaré Vocal Ensemble: Cantaré Vocal Ensemble is the choral ensemble for those of you who are skeptical of choral music. We continually program concerts and events across a broad range of musical tastes without the stuffiness or formality found at traditional choral concerts. In our performances we strive to be relaxed and intimate with the audience. We program music to open people's eyes to the fun, beauty and accessibility of a wide variety of musical types and styles. As we like to say Non e un coro per le Mamme! (This ain't your Mamma's choir).

Founded by Artistic Director Mark Adrian in 2000, the ensemble includes 40-50 singers from throughout the greater Seattle area. Concerts are typically performed at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral on Capitol Hill, Lakeside School in north Seattle, Town Hall on First Hill, and at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle.