Cantilena sings "In a Woman's Voice" - Sun May 1 - 4 pm

Music Director Jennifer Kane has chosen a variety of songs to celebrate the sounds and colors created by women’s voices, wonderfully rendered by Arlington’s classical female chorus, Cantilena. The May 1st program features “What is Pink?” a song cycle in which American composer Ned Rorem plays with six poems musically, to evoke a wide range of moods. “In a Woman’s Voice” spans musical vocabularies from Pergolesi’s fashionable mid-18th century Galant and Baroque style “Stabat Mater”; the Romantic chorale “Lift Thine Eyes” from Mendelssohn’s popular oratorio Elijah; and Thompson’s antiphonal “Pueri Hebaeorum” for double chorus; to Moses Hogan’s arrangement of the African-American spiritual “Music Down in My Soul”; and Felicia Sandler’s choral arrangement of the Ghanaian playground song “Sansa Kroma.” Other favorites include Bourland’s heartfelt setting of Alarcón’s “I want to stop being an endless night”; Persichetti’s playful treatment of E.E. Cummings’ “In Just-spring”; Busto’s sublime chant “Salve Regina”; Loomer’s arrangement of MacGillivray’s lilting “Away from the Roll of the Sea”; and Eleanor Daley’s soothing contemporary memorial “The Angels Will Guide You Home.”

Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 4 p.m.

Venue: First Parish Unitarian Universalist Arlington

630 Massachusetts Avenue | Arlington, MA

(fully accessible venue, large print programs, free parking, MBTA service)

Tickets: $18 in advance | $20 at-door | $12 students/seniors

Advance Sales through Sat 4/30/16 ! via Cantilena members and at

The Book Rack -- 13 Medford St.| Arlington Ctr.

781-646-2665 | www.book-rack.com

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Contact us:

visit: www.cantilena.org | e-mail: info@cantilena.org | telephone: 617-484-5748

Founded as the Cambridge Chorale in 1968, Cantilena, a women's chorale based in Arlington MA, is an ensemble of approximately 36 singers dedicated to performing music written for the treble voice. Under the direction of Jennifer Kane since fall 2015, this premiere non-professional group enjoys performing challenging and diverse repertoire which spans the centuries and includes works in many different languages and musical forms.