CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS
A CHANTICLEER CHRISTMAS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, AT NEC’s JORDAN HALL

 (BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents
A Chanticleer Christmas featuring the renowned all-male a cappella ensemble Chanticleer in a performance of traditional carols, spirituals, and sacred works on Sunday, November 25 at 3:00 p.m. at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston.

Chanticleer made its Celebrity Series debut in 1993, and last appeared in Boston presented by the Series in 2005. This performance marks the group’s sixth Celebrity Series appearance.

Founded in 1978 by then graduate musicology student Louis Botto, Chanticleer is a Grammy Award-winning all-male a cappella ensemble known for its vivid interpretations vocal literature ranging from gospel and Renaissance, to jazz and new music. Based in San Francisco, the group takes its name from the “clear singing” rooster in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and is comprised of twelve male vocalists ranging from countertenor to bass. The 2007-2008 season finds Chanticleer performing more than 100 concerts in the United States and abroad with appearances in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York City, Paris, Luxembourg, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest.

Chanticleer has a long-standing commitment to the development of the choral repertoire and has commissioned new works from a number of important composers such as Mark Adamo, David Conte, Jake Heggie, John Tavener, and Régis Campo among several others. The ensemble also strives to bring choral music to young people by conducting residencies and master classes, along with their Chanticleer Youth Choral Festivals™.

Chanticleer has recorded exclusively for Warner Classics since 1994 and earned three Grammy Awards: the first in 2000 for Colors of Love which earned the award for Best Small Ensemble Performance; the second and third in 2002 for John Tavener’s Lamentations and Praises which was recognized as the Best Small Ensemble Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Sunday, November 25 at 3:00 PM
NEC’s Jordan Hall

A CHANTICLEER CHRISTMAS

Joseph H. Jennings, Chanticleer Music Director
Dylan Hostetter, Michael Match, Michael McNeil, soprano
Cortez Mitchell, Alan Reinhardt, Adam Ward, alto
Brian Hinman, Matthew Oltman, Todd Wedge, tenor
Eric Alatorre, Gabriel Lewis-O’Connor, Jace Wittig, baritone and bass

GREGORIAN CHANT
Virga Jesse floruit

PEROTIN
Ex semine Abrahæ

PRAETORIUS
In dulci jubilo

DESPREZ
Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria

FLECHA the elder
El Jubilate

FERNANDEZ
Xiocochi, xicochi conetzintle

DE ZÉSPEDES
Convidando está la noche

PÄRT
“O Sproß aus Isais Wurzel” from Sieben Magnificat-Antiphone

MISKINIS
“O Radix Jesse” from Seven O-Antiphons

BRUCKNER
Virga Jesse

PRAETORIUS/SANDSTRÖM
Det är en ros utsprungen
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

BIEBL
Ave Maria

LEIGHTON
“Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child” Opus 25b
from The Pageant of the Shearman and Tailors, Coventry, 15 th century

TRADITIONAL
O Come, All Ye Faithful, Arr. Joseph Jennings

KIRKPATRICK
Away in a Manger

LEONTOVYCH
Carol of the Bells, English words by Peter J. Wilhousky; Arr. Buryl Red and Joseph Joubert

BOYCE/PACE
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, ARR. JOSEPH JENNIGS

Christmas Medley
ROCHE, Star of Wonder
HOPKINS, We Three Kings
EDWARDS, No Small Wonder
ADAM, O Holy Night, Arr. Joseph Jennings

TRADITIONAL
Medley of Christmas Spirituals
Arr. Joseph Jennings Everywhere I Go
Oh, What A Pretty Little Baby
Oh Jerusalem in the Morning

TICKETING INFORMATION
Remaining tickets, priced at $35, are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 (Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), online at www.celebrityseries.org, or at the Jordan Hall box office, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston.

About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from two anonymous donors; The Little Family Foundation; The Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consolate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; The Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapaport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Spring Sirkin and Arthur Frank; Dorothy and Stephen Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

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