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Conducted by Christopher Bell, Chicago’s Grant Park Chorus, “as fine a symphony chorus as any to be found anywhere in the nation” (Chicago Tribune), makes its a cappella CD debut with an all-American program of eight imaginative, moving, and sometimes whimsical works written between 1975 and 2005, including four world-premiere recordings.
Bell has fans on both sides of the Atlantic. The Ulster-born chorus master also commands the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus, and Belfast Philharmonic Choir.
The chorus made its commercial recording debut performing with the Grant Park Orchestra on the 2011 Cedille Records release The Pulitzer Project, which attracted international attention (Cedille Records CDR90000125). Chicago’s New City said the CD “spectacularly showcased” the chorus’s “remarkable transparency and flexibility.”
Abbie Betinis: Songs of Smaller Creatures
I. The Bees' Song
II. A noiseless, patient spider
III. Envoi
Lee Kesselman: Buzzings
No. 1. To make a prairie
No. 2. A Bee his burnished Carriage
No. 3. Bee! I'm expecting you!
Eric Whitacre: When David Heard
When David Heard
Stacy Garrop: Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy
No. 1. Now by this moon, before this moon shall wane
No. 2. Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
No. 3. I shall forget you presently, my dear
David Del Tredici: Final Alice: Acrostic Song
Final Alice: Acrostic Song
Ned Rorem: 7 Motets for the Church Year
No. 1. When all things were in quiet silence (Christmas)
No. 2. Before the morning star begotten (Epiphany)
No. 3. Lay up for yourselves (Ash Wednesday)
No. 4. Praise him who was crucified (Easter)
No. 5. God Is gone up (Ascension)
No. 6. Today the Holy Spirit appeared (Pentecost)
No. 7. Rejoice we all in the Lord (All Saints)
Paul Crabtree: 5 Romantic Miniatures
No. 1. Abe
No. 2. Lisa
No. 3. Homer
No. 4. Marge
No. 5. Homer
Eric Whitacre: Sleep
Sleep
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I. The Bees' Song