Jan 24
Guest: Cantus | Wanting Memories
This event is free; however, advance seat reservation is required to attend. There are seats still available for tonight. If you would like to reserve a seat, please reach out to concerts@carleton.edu.
Now in its 31st season, Cantus is recognized as one of the nation’s premier vocal ensembles, praised for its signature warmth, collaborative artistry, and powerful storytelling across repertoire spanning the Renaissance to today. Performing without a conductor, the ensemble works as a true chamber group, resulting in deeply human performances that explore connection, empathy, and shared experience.
Based in Minneapolis, Cantus tours nationally and internationally with appearances at Lincoln Center, Yale Schwarzman Center, Tanglewood, and major venues across Canada, Europe, South America, and Asia. The ensemble also reaches global audiences through streaming, records with Signum Classics, and champions new and underrepresented music for low voices through commissioning and the Cantus Choral Series.
Education is central to Cantus’ mission. Each year, the ensemble engages more than 5,000 students in workshops, residencies, and festivals, including the acclaimed High School Mentorship Program, the Tenor Bass Festival, and the Cantus Composer Competition.
In this performance, Cantus will present their program "Wanting Memories" in which Cantus explores the unique and enduring relationship between music and memory in all of our lives. Through selections that include timeless tunes like "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World", and anchored by Ysaÿe M. Barnwell’s "Wanting Memories", this performance traverses the realms of nostalgia and family, loss and love, grief, laughter, fear and hope.
from Music Department