Program Notes
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Fauré Requiem Program Notes
Music That Heals We cannot think of a more fitting and beautiful way to close our first full season since the pandemic began in 2020 than with Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem (1888), nor a better place to sing it than this church. After all the losses, loneliness, and disruption of the last three years, the glorious acoustics allow Fauré’s…
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CAE Pops Turns 10!
CAE Pops! Welcome to our celebration of ten years of pops concerts. When we started them, we didn’t know exactly what “pops” would entail but felt we needed something fun to get us all through the last dark days of winter. Besides, the concept has let us explore everything from opera to jazz, folksongs to…
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“A Christmas Carol” Program Notes
Dickens and A Christmas Carol The most popular English novelist of the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) created stories that still draw readers and characters whose very names conjure up vivid images. To this day, when most of us think of Victorian England, we see that world as Dickens presented it. Those descriptions derive their…
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A World Anew: The Music of Sydney Guillaume Program Notes
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Circles: The Music of Timothy Takach Program Notes
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Stóir Amhráin Program Notes
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CAE Yuletide: Light Renewed Program Notes
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CAE POPS! Songs and Hymns of America Program Notes
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And on Earth, Peace Program Notes
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Blest Pair of Sirens: Great English Choral Music Program Notes
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Masterworks Old and New Program Notes
How do we recognize masterpieces? Do they have to stand the test of time, and, if so, how much time? Do they represent the supreme achievements of artists in a class by themselves? Do they break new ground or make definitive statements, or do they instead offer quiet perfection from a place of deeply personal…
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CAE Yuletide: To Friends Old & New Program Notes
Holiday Favorites, Old and New When we polled our members last spring about favorite pieces to sing in our anniversary season this year, we were pleased that so many on the list fit perfectly into our holiday program. As in our fall concert, the selections reflect many traditions, from Middle English lyrics to a Basque…
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Fifty Years of Singing Together
Everlasting Voices Program Notes What better way to begin our 50th anniversary season than by sampling favorites, old and new, from every decade of our existence! At the end of last season, current singers got the chance to nominate songs that had especially moved us, though the list of possibilities did not include some of…
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The Hope of Loving: Some Notes on the Words
“The Hope of Loving,” our concert of choral works by Jake Runestad (b. 1986), obviously focuses on the music, but Runestad clearly has a gift for choosing wonderful texts to inspire him. These “notes” take a closer look at several of the authors. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. The illnesses of…
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CAE Pops! From Broadway to the Met, the Sequel Program Notes
Welcome to CAE’s annual pops concerts, cannily timed to brighten the dark days before spring’s return. Back by popular demand, From Broadway to the Met offers show tunes from prize-winning musicals and then turns to some of the grandest of grand opera ensembles. Men from the Ensemble begin, appropriately, with “Hello” from Tony winner The…
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