[NEohioPAL] Cleveland Chamber Choir Presents Holiday Concert

[Kira McGirr]

Come celebrate the Holidays with the Cleveland Chamber Choir with carols,
Renaissance polyphony, and Sephardic music from Spain and Portugal.


The concert will feature familiar favorites, like *Fum, fum, fum* and *Ríu,
Ríu Chíu* and Tomás Luis de Victoria’s meditative *O Magnum Mysterium*”.
Sure to become new favorites are the fiery ensaladas by Matteo Flecha that
combine madrigal, dance and polyphonic traditions. “They are as close to
rock music as you get in the early Baroque era,” said Ristow, “and the name
of the genre really does mean *salad*, because each piece is like a tossed
salad of languages and both secular and sacred musical styles.” Within Flecha’s
*La Bomba* you’ll hear “a sea-shanty that meets a sacred Renaissance
chanted prayer.”



Of particular note are the sacred compositions of Afro-Portuguese composer
and music theorist Vicente Lusitano, whose work was neglected and excluded
because of his race; and music from the Sephardic Jewish tradition. “Lustino’s
music is some of the most striking and beautiful of the High Renaissance,
and it’s only in the past several years that it has been rediscovered by
choirs,” said Ristow. “We’re excited to share it with Cleveland audiences
for the first time.”


Friday, December 15, 2023 at 8:00pm, Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin College, 50
W. Lorain St., Oberlin


Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 7:00pm, First Baptist Church of Greater
Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland



Free-will donations accepted. Ticket reservations requested at
clevelandchamberchoir.org. A portion of the free-will donations made at
these concerts will be directed towards the Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts
Center for these concerts to support their work in serving Latino youth and
their families through programs and activities designed to foster cultural
pride and art appreciation.



A pre-concert talk will be presented by Charles Edward McGuire, PhD, from
Oberlin College & Conservatory, 45 minutes before each performance. This
concert is presented with generous grants from The Cleveland Foundation,
The Gund Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, and Local 4 Music Fund.
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