Listen to “Christmas with Cantus”
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Cantus is an all-male choral ensemble in Minnesota. 2006 marks the first year Cantus broadcast their Christmas concert over the public radio waves via American Public Media. The entire concert, on the theme of an American Christmas, can be listened to on demand here: Christmas with Cantus.
The program features:
- Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque (Light of Gold)
- Traditional (Spiritual, arr. Stephen Hatfield): Go where I send thee
- John Jacob Niles: I wonder as I wander (A Cappella with Soprano Or Tenor Solo
)
- Kenneth Jennings: O Little Town of Bethlehem (SATB version)
- William Billings: Shiloh
- William L. Dawson: Hail Mary! (SATB version)
- Juan Orrego-Salas: Villancico, Aleluya, Danza, from Canticos De Navidad (SSA version
)
- Ariel Ramirez: La Huida from Navidad Nuestra (SATB version
)
- Felix Bernard/Dick Smith (arr. J. Edward Waesche): Winter Wonderland (different version: Winter Wonderland TTBB)
- Traditional (arr. Timothy C. Takach): ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (different SSAATTBB version: ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
)
- Traditional (arr. Brian Arreola): Silent Night
- Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
(also in SATB
)
Fun concert!
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