Cantabile

Sending you heartfelt wishes for a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy, love, and gratitude. From our Cantabile family to yours.

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us for Joy Down Deep this past weekend. We feel beyond honored to have shared the joy and celebration with you! If you weren't able to make it—or if you would just like to revisit the beauty of it all—you can find a recording of the performance on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5LjrvJm7A. #choralmusic #livemusic #joy #choir #boulderart #BoulderCO #Cantabile

Join us for an evening of pure joy as we embark on Cantabile's 35th season with our concert, "Joy Down Deep"! 🎵✨

Friday, November 10th | 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 12th | 3:00 PM
First Congregational Church UCC Boulder

This program celebrates the joy we have experienced throughout our years of singing together. 🎶 From the exuberant bursts of "Joy Never Leaves" to the heartfelt introspection of "The Road Home," each piece resonates with the universal themes of connection, homecoming, and resilience. With the ethereal harmonies of "Alleluia" and the powerful message of "All of Us," we invite you to be uplifted and inspired. And as we honor the joy and passion of singing, "I Started Out Singing" will remind us of the transformative power of music.

Tickets on sale now:
Nov 10: https://fb.me/e/1uNptpF1T
Nov 12: https://fb.me/e/3TUBPoG1l

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Cantabile Cantabile is a Boulder-based choir led by Brian Stone that connects humanity through choral music.

Join us for an evening of pure joy as we embark on Cantabile's 35th season with our concert, "Joy Down Deep"! 🎵✨

Joy Down Deep
📅 Dates: Friday November 10 at 7:30 pm and Sunday November 12 at 3:00 pm
📍 Location: First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine Street, Boulder CO

Marking the beginning of our 35th season, this program celebrates the joy we have experienced throughout our years of singing together. 🎶 From the exuberant bursts of "Joy Never Leaves" to the heartfelt introspection of "The Road Home," each piece resonates with the universal themes of connection, homecoming, and resilience. With the ethereal harmonies of "Alleluia" and the powerful message of "All of Us," we invite you to be uplifted and inspired. And as we honor the joy and passion of singing, "I Started Out Singing" will remind us of the transformative power of music.

Don't miss this unforgettable concert! Get your tickets now and join us for an experience filled with pure joy and beautiful choral music! 🎶✨

Tickets for "Joy Down Deep" can be found here:
Nov 10: https://fb.me/e/1uNptpF1T
Nov 12: https://fb.me/e/3TUBPoG1l

Join the global sing-along on World Singing Day, October 21st!

🌍🎵 Sing from the comfort of your own home or join the event in Boulder at Pearl Street Mall from 2-3:30 pm. All ages and singing abilities are welcome! Check out more information at www.worldsingingday.org.

Can't make it to World Singing Day? 🎶✨ Join us at the "Joy Down Deep" concert on November 10th and 12th, and lend your voice to one of the performed pieces. Reserve your tickets early online and save 20%!

Tickets for "Joy Down Deep" can be found here:
Nov 10: https://fb.me/e/1uNptpF1T
Nov 12: https://fb.me/e/3TUBPoG1l

Our concerts on November 10th and 12th of this year will mark the beginning of Cantabile's 35th season since incorporating and becoming a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. That's more than 35 years of important and meaningful music-making in the Boulder community! We are grateful for all these years and look forward to many more to come.

When asked about what makes Cantabile special, I immediately talk about the singers, their friendship with each other, and the joy with which they greet each other at rehearsals. The energy in the room on Tuesday evenings when we rehearse is ecstatic. It may sound odd that it isn't the concerts or the music-making particularly that leaps to mind, but the music would not be possible without the foundation of friendship and support that defines Cantabile's membership. This 35th season is titled "Joyful Past and Hopeful Future" and each concert will strive to juxtapose those two things: we celebrate our history while looking forward to what comes next.

Our first concert, which I've entitled "Joy Down Deep", focuses on those ideas of friendship and community, while also speaking to the emotions that drive us to return week after week to sing together. Our concert will begin with a piece by Melanie DeMore entitled "I Will Be Your Standing Stone." It is a song we can sing to each other, to reassure each other that we will stand by each other through thick and thin. The rest of the first half follows with sounds that shout out our love of music and particularly in making it together. From Rollo Dilworth's arrangement of "I Sing Because I'm Happy" to Dan Forrest's exuberant "Music of Living," we will be singing with a raucous and deeply felt joy in being together. The second half turns inward, reflecting on important pieces from Cantabile's past such as Stephen Paulus's "The Road Home" and David Dickau's "If Music Be the Food of Love."

This concert is just the first of our three-concert season, and we hope to see you at each one as we celebrate not just the past we are so grateful to have experienced but also our hope created by the music yet to be made.

We hope you will join us for as many concerts as you can as we explore our Joyful Past and Hopeful Future.

Tickets for "Joy Down Deep" can be found here:
Nov 10: https://fb.me/e/1uNptpF1T
Nov 12: https://fb.me/e/3TUBPoG1l

🎵 Joyful Past and Hopeful Future: Cantabile’s 35th Season - 2023-2024 🎵

Cantabile's 35th season celebrates our rich history of performing choral music while looking ahead to an exciting and hopeful future. Each concert reflects the important place choral art plays in our world:

✨ Our first concert expresses the deep joy we feel when singing together.
🎶 The second concert showcases beloved classics from choral music history, juxtaposed with equally beautiful but lesser-known pieces.
📚 Our final concert illustrates how choral music weaves together important and relatable stories.

🎟️ Tickets are now on sale for our first concert! Explore our season and reserve your seats: https://www.facebook.com/cantabilesingers/events

Join us as we embark on this musical journey filled with joy, inspiration, and the power of choral music. 🎵✨

Join Cantabile for our 35th season!

Our Artistic Director, Brian Stone, will be holding auditions on the evenings of July 18th and 19th for all voice parts. Please email Brian at [email protected] if you are interested in getting more information and to schedule your audition. As well, it's a huge help if you share this post with others that might want to be a part of a caring and musical community of singers. There are a few items to prepare for the audition, so contact Brian soon!

www.cantabilesingers.org

Cantabile Cantabile is a Boulder-based choir led by Brian Stone that connects humanity through choral music.

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us for Iholba' (The Vision) this past weekend.

We feel beyond honored to have shared this music with you. Not only were we able to lift up the voices of important Indigenous American contemporary composers, but we did so to some of the most receptive and generous audiences in our nearly 35 year history!

If you weren't able to make it—or if you would just like to revisit the beauty of it all—you can find a recording of our performance on Cantabile's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqhvO5KSAag

Thank you again, Daily Camera!

Cantabile Singers lift up Chickasaw, Indigenous languages with season finale concert The choral group presents “Iholba’: the Vision.”

Thank you again, Colorado Public Radio!

A Boulder-based chorale group is celebrating Indigenous voices with its last show of the season Cantabile aims to use its voices to connect people through choral music. The featured piece of the concert is based on a Chickasaw Garfish Dance song and is sung in the Chickasaw language.

Thank you, Ella Cobb and Daily Camera, for spotlighting our amazing season finale concerts this weekend!

There is still time to grab your tickets >> https://linktr.ee/cantabile.singers

Can't join us? Be sure to catch our Sunday live stream >> https://cantabilesingers.org/live/

Cantabile Singers lift up Chickasaw, Indigenous languages with season finale concert The choral group presents “Iholba’: the Vision.”

Did you see the news?! We are on the FRONT PAGE of Colorado Public Radio this morning! Thank you, Eden Lane and CPR, for recognizing the importance of this concert.

Read the article >> https://www.cpr.org/
And grab your tickets >> https://linktr.ee/cantabile.singers

LAST CHANCE TO SAVE! Remember: General Admission tickets for Cantabile's final concert of the 2022-2023 season will go up at the door. So grab your tickets today: https://linktr.ee/cantabile.singers

IHOLBA'
Friday, May 5 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 7 @ 3:00 PM
First Congregational Church UCC Boulder
More info & tickets: https://linktr.ee/cantabile.singers
Sunday live stream: cantabilesingers.org/live

Cantabile Cantabile is a Boulder-based choir led by Brian Stone that connects humanity through choral music.

We are honored to be celebrating Indigenous American artists and composers at our "Iholba' (The Vision)" concert next week.

But the celebration should not stop with our performances. We invite you to continue honoring Indigenous American artists at The Longmont Museum exhibition, "Duality: Contemporary Works by Indigenous Artists," running through May 14th.

Learn more at https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/museum

It's finally Boulder Arts Week!!

Come celebrate with us TONIGHT at our free concert and open rehearsal at 7pm - First Congregational Church UCC Boulder.

More info at https://www.boulderartsweek.org/calendar?com=detail&eID=118143

Join Cantabile as we lift up and honor the important voices of Indigenous musicians and composers at our final concert of the 2022-2023 season:

IHOLBA' (THE VISION)
Friday, May 5th | 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 7th | 3:00 PM
@ First Congregational Church UCC Boulder

The cornerstone of the program is Chickasaw Classical Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's masterpiece, "Iholba' (The Vision)," which is sung in Tate's native Chickasaw language and accompanied by a chamber orchestra comprising 16 local instrumentalists.

Tickets on sale now: https://linktr.ee/cantabile.singers
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Cantabile Presents: Iholba' (The Vision) Join Cantabile as we celebrate cultures both familiar and foreign through Chickasaw native Jerod Tate’s work, "Iholba’ (The Vision)"

Join Cantabile for Boulder Arts Week April 7th - 15th!

We will be hosting a FREE informal concert and open rehearsal next Tuesday, April 11th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at First Congregational Church. Come to hear some of our most-beloved songs, then stay as we rehearse for our May concert.

Check out the online calendar for a complete list of events: https://www.boulderartsweek.org/calendar

This week-long celebration of art and creativity will showcase the best and brightest talent in our local area, from murals and installations to music and dance. We can't wait to see you there!

Boulder Arts Week 2023 Join us again at Boulder’s only large-scale, inclusive celebration of our community’s vibrant arts and cultural offerings and our city’s thriving…

Cantabile believes that singing and hearing choral music can spark joy, deepen self-awareness, build friendships within communities, and foster understanding and compassion for the experiences of others.

When I first began envisioning our third and final concert of the 2022-2023 season, I let this core belief and our season's theme -- The Art We Need -- guide me. It felt crucial to me to pursue works that went beyond my personal comfort zone and that exposed both the choir and our audiences to musical content outside our lived experiences. So I began searching outside the classic Western choral canon for a larger, celebratory, and multi-faceted piece. I found Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate 's "Iholba' (The Vision)" and our calling for this concert: to lift up the work of Indigenous musicians and composers. It is a timely and necessary endeavor, and we are thrilled to invite you on the journey.

In Tate's "Iholba' (The Vision)," he sets his own poetry of earth-centered imagery about human experience to musical material that is based on the Chickasaw Garfish Dance song. Composed for chorus and orchestra, the work asks the choir to sing in Tate's native Chickasaw language and gives us the great opportunity to collaborate with 16 local string, woodwind, and percussion instrumentalists.

Accompanying this central work will be three additional pieces: "Stomp on the Fire" by Andrea Ramsey, which uses the voice and the percussive sounds of the body to create an expression of our collective human journey; "Chante Waste Hoksila (My Kind-hearted Boy)," a traditional Lakota lullaby arranged by Linthicum-Blackhorse in 2022 in honor of the children of Uvalde; and the "Wichita Baptist Hymn" transcribed by Tracey Gregg-Boothby
and arranged by Andrew Marshall, which examines and preserves two melodies of the Southern Plains Wichita tribe, or Kitikiti'sh, of which she is a member.

I am excited to present these pieces to you and to invite you to join me outside of my comfort zone on May 5 & 7 at First Congregational Church UCC Boulder. Together, I hope we might honor these important voices and gain a new perspective.

Tickets are available now at: http://bit.ly/3Kl0XjN

- Brian Stone, Artistic Director