Gaudete-Rejoice! Kantorei at the Holidays

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Northglenn Arts Presents

Join Kantorei for a program of festive premieres and beloved holiday music, featuring the U.S. premiere of British-Armenian composer, Kristina Arakelyan's A Christmas Offering, featuring Janet Kay Harriman on harp. Inspired by Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols , this nine-movement work is a festive celebration ranging from the energetic "Alleluia!" to the contemplative "Out of the East," to heartfelt moments such as "There is no rose".

Like Britten, Arakelyan draws her texts from medieval carols in Latin and early English that tell the nativity story. Her musical language evokes a medieval sound world with a contemporary twist, drawing on her own Armenian heritage and other Eastern influences to bring these ancient texts vividly to life. The program also includes a world premiere written by Arakelyan, commissioned for Kantorei by Scott Horowitz and Leah Weinberg, and selections of holiday favorites featuring Alicia Rigsby and Amanda Draheim on piano four-hand.

Kantorei is an inclusive community of volunteer singers that brings the richness of choral music to life with joy and excellence. We nurture the broader choral community, advance the art form by commissioning new work, and perform the full diversity of modern choral composition alongside treasured works of the traditional canon.

Kantorei es una comunidad inclusiva de cantantes voluntarios que da vida a la riqueza de la música coral con alegría y excelencia. Nutrimos a la comunidad coral en general, hacemos avanzar la forma de arte al comisionar obras nuevas y ejecutamos toda la diversidad de la composición coral moderna junto con las obras preciadas del canon tradicional.

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