Chanticleer & ACRONYM

GREAT VOCALISTS Returning to Merkin Hall after sold-out performances last season, the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker teams up with the acclaimed early music string ensemble ACRONYM for an evening of music by Italian Baroque composer Giovanni Valentini. The program includes modern-day premieres of some of Valentini’s most thrilling vocal and instrumental works, nearly all of it unheard since the seventeenth century. Rivaling his contemporaries Heinrich Schutz and Claudio Monteverdi, Valentini’s compositions are full of bold harmonic shifts and rhythmic daring: unrelated keys and extreme chromaticism appear from nowhere, while obscure time signatures keep musicians and audiences on their toes. PROGRAM All works by Giovanni Valentini (c.1582–1649) Chanticleer Adoramus te Christe et Benedicimus Tibi Litaniae Lauretanae B.V. ACRONYM Canzona a3 in G Canzona Ottava a5 1609 Sonata a5 in A minor Chanticleer + ACRONYM Haec est Virgo Sapiens Iniquos Odio Habui Litaniae Lauretanae Concertate Beatae Virginis Litaniae Lauretanae Conventus Cremsiriensis Litaniae Lauretanae in Tripla Litaniae Lauretanae in Tripla 2di. Toni Litaniae Lauretanae Super Battudas Mensa Sacra O Vos Omnes Veni Sponsa Christi Leadership support for Great Vocalists is made possible by The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust.