Fri 5/8 @ 7:30PM
Sat 5/9 @ 7:30PM
The Cleveland Chamber Choir is a professional vocal ensemble that performs music across the centuries, from the middle ages to pieces by contemporary composers. For its next concerts, it will close the season looking back to Renaissance France with a program of what they call “rich, resplendent polyphony,” including chansons and motets by by Josquin des Prez, Clément Janequin, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, among others.
They share, “These towering figures shaped the soundscape of the 15th and early 16th centuries—Josquin transformed vocal expression with emotional depth and technical brilliance; Janequin was famous for his descriptive programmatic chansons, with vivid vocal pieces mimicking sounds like birds, street cries, and battles; Sweelinck was known as the ‘Orpheus of Amsterdam,’ bridging Renaissance and Baroque music.
Listen to the CCC blend their voices in in an evening of beautiful song at Trinity Cathedral downtown on Friday May 8 and at First Lutheran Church in Lorain on Saturday May 9, with Oberlin College & Conservatory faculty member Dr. Charles Edward McGuire, giving a talk 45 minutes before each concert.
Both concerts are free. Reserve your tickets here.