<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="">Come
celebrate the Holidays with the Cleveland Chamber Choir with <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">carols, Renaissance polyphony, and Sephardic music
from Spain and Portugal. </span></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The concert will
feature familiar favorites, like <i>Fum, fum, fum</i> and <i>Ríu, Ríu Chíu</i> and
Tomás Luis de Victoria’s meditative <i>O Magnum Mysterium</i>”. Sure to become
new favorites are the fiery ensaladas by Matteo Flecha that combine madrigal,
dance and polyphonic traditions. “They </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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 <i>salad</i>, because each piece is like a
tossed salad of languages and both secular and sacred musical styles.” Within </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Flecha’s <i>La Bomba</i> you’ll hear “a sea-shanty
that meets a sacred Renaissance chanted prayer.”</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in">



</p><p style="margin:0in"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Of particular note
are </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“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,”</span><span style="color:black"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">said Ristow. “We’re excited to
share it with Cleveland audiences for the first time.”</span></span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Friday, December 15,
2023 at 8:00pm, Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin College, </span><span style="color:black">50 W. Lorain St., Oberlin</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Saturday, December 16,
2023 at 7:00pm, First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, </span><span style="color:black;text-align:right">3630 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in">



</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A pre-concert talk will be presented by </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Charles Edward McGuire, PhD, from
Oberlin College & Conservatory, 45 minutes before each performance. This
concert is presented with generous grants from </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
Cleveland Foundation, The Gund Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, and Local 4 Music
Fund.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Free-will
donations accepted.</span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> Ticket reservations requested at <a href="http://clevelandchamberchoir.org">clevelandchamberchoir.org</a>. </span><span style="color:black">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. </span></font></p></div>