Chorus Angelicus from Connecticut, USA perform a programme of beautiful sacred, traditional, and classical choral music.
REPERTOIRE
Conductor: Dr. Gabriel Löfval
Artza Alinu
Words & Music, Israeli dance song, arranged by Earlene Rentz (b. 1956)
Fiddle-I-Fee
Words & Music, trad. American folk song, arranged by John Purifoy (b. 1947)
O Think of Me
Words, Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893)
Music, Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979)
Animal Verses of Ogden Nash
Words, Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
Music, Marion Verhaalen (1930–2020)
Organum Floris
Words, Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)
Music, Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975)
Alle Psallite Cum Luya
Words & Music, anonymous from the French Montpellier Codex, 13th c.
I Believe
Words, anon. Jewish poem
Music, Mark A. Miller (b. 1967)
The Rose
Words, Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Music, Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
The Gift to Sing
Words, James Rosamond Johnson (1871–1938)
Music, Rollo Dilworth (b. 1970)
Os Mutorum
Words, anon. antiphon for St. Columba; Inchcolm Antiphoner, c. 1340
Music, James McMillan (b. 1959)
Lift Thine Eyes
Words, from scripture: psalm 121
Music, Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), from the oratorio Elijah
Evening Service in C Minor - Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Words, from scripture: Luke 1:46–55, 2:29–32
Music, George Dyson (1883–1964)
The Fox
Words & Music, trad. English folk song
arranged by Blake Richter (b. 1993) & Taylor Schaeffer (b. 1990)
This internationally acclaimed children’s choir has impressed audiences with the best of choral music, both sacred and secular, since its founding in 1991 by Grammy Award winning composer and keyboardist Paul Halley. Performances have included collaborations with the Hartford Symphony and the Paul Winter Consort in venues such as Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Music Shed in Norfolk, CT, the Warner Theater in Torrington, CT, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Chorus Angelicus has also toured nationally in Florida and the Pacific Northwest, and internationally in Canada, Spain, and Ireland.
The choir is frequently invited to sing at workshops, on concert series, and at music festivals, and Chorus Angelicus with Gaudeamus was invited to perform at the 1999 inauguration ceremony of Connecticut’s Governor. Connecticut Public Television crafted a feature program on Chorus Angelicus, focusing on the choir’s accomplishments, in the recent Music For A Great Space series. Christmas in Connecticut, a book by Diane Smith of The Morning Show (WTIC-AM), highlights the choir’s beloved Christmas Angelicus concert series, also televised in a news special with NBC in New York and Hartford, and broadcast on WFCR and WNPR. In 2006, the CD What Child Is This? featuring Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus was recorded and distributed on the Pelagos label.
Chorus Angelicus is featured in a millenium compilation of its most vibrant repertoire, from Serbia and Russia to South Africa and the Dominican Republic. Entitled Untraveled Worlds, this Pelagos release has garnered rave reviews and significant airplay from WNPR stations throughout the country. The choir was also featured on a Telarc release, Dance On A Moonbeam, with world class artists Frederica von Stade, Dawn Upshaw, Meryl Streep, and the London Symphony Orchestra.