Chanticleer
July 3 | 7:00 pm
photo: Stephen K. Mack
A Broyhill Classic Concert Series Event
Supporting Sponsorship provided by the Broyhill Family Foundation and Campus Store
The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
The evening’s program is titled SING JOYFULLY.
View complete program here.
LOCATION: Rosen Concert Hall, Broyhill Music Center, 813 Rivers St., Boone, NC 28608
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact the Box Office at theschaefercenter@appstate.edu or call 800-841-2787 or 828-262-4046.
TICKETS:
Standard: $40
App State Faculty/Staff: $35
Children (12 and younger): $10
SHOWTIME:
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 | 7pm
Doors open at 6:30pm
ABOUT CHANTICLEER
Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the Renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener’s Lamentations & Praises, and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled Colors of Love. Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer.
Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition, A Chanticleer Christmas.
photo: Stephen K. Mack
CHANTICLEER AT A GLANCE
Established: Founded by Louis Botto in 1978 in San Francisco. 2021-22 is the ensemble’s 44th Season.
Members: The multiple Grammy Award-winning all-male vocal ensemble is comprised of 12 singers hailing from across the U.S.
Repertoire: Chanticleer’s repertoire spans ten centuries from Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony and Romantic art song to contemporary music, jazz, spirituals and world music.
Concerts: Chanticleer gives approximately 100 concerts a year throughout the world, appearing regularly in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Internationally, as well as its home base of San Francisco.
What the Critics Are Saying:
- “The singing of Chanticleer is breathtaking in its accuracy of intonation, purity of blend, variety of color and swagger of style.” – The Boston Globe
- “Precise, pure and deeply felt singing.” – The New York Times
- “Chanticleer fascinates and enthralls for much the same reason a fine chocolate or a Rolls Royce does: through luxurious perfection.” – Los Angeles Times
- “The world’s reigning male chorus.” – The New Yorker
- They are, to put it directly, one of the world’s best.” – San Francisco Chronicle
