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Madrigal singers meet Chanticleer Madrigal singers meet Chanticleer Bryan J. Smith

Chanticleer delivered a captivating performance at Weber's Austad Auditorium on Saturday night to an excited and appreciative crowd.  Chanticleer performed a diverse reprertoir of compositions that left their fans amazed, laughing, and wanting more. The evening's program title "in time of..." is taken from an e. e. cummings poem of the same name. It was arranged for choral ensemble by Steven Sametz and closed the first half the performance.

Ogden locals will appreciate that the performance introduction was embelished with Chanticleer declaring "Ogden's Farr Better Ice Cream is one of the nation's best kept secrets!"  Aside from their humor, Chanticleer also showed that they are masters of vocal performance.  Equally adept at singing in Hungarian as they are sounding like a tropical rain forest.  The evening concluded with a lively rendition of Summertime by George Gershwin from Porgy and Bess.

Chanticleer
We flew from Santa Fe (actually Albuquerque) to Denver, then Denver to Salt Lake City, then drove here to Ogden, Utah for a concert Saturday night at the Austad Auditorium in the Browning Center for the Performing Arts. We were happy to see Mary McDonald and Taylor Worth - alums of our Chanticleer in Sonoma workshop, which is held in the summer in beautiful Sonoma county for about 60 choral singers aged 18-80 from all over the country. you blog followers will already know how much fun THAT is!.
What People are saying on Facebook
Amy Kendell
And it was a fabulous concert if I do say so myself. Thanks for sharing!
Brent V. Marrott
EXCELLENT!!!!!
Des Willard
AMAZING!!!! It was my first time to hear the group....I would definately (sic) go again!
Amanda McConnell McKay
Loved it! You have yet to disappoint. Please come to Utah again soon!
Joanne Mooney
What a great performance! We loved every minute of it!
Tim Sondrup
Yes! Please, please come back to Utah! I will invite my whole family and all of my friends! The performances were simply flawless and breathtaking! I have most of your albums, but nothing compares to seeing you guys sing live, front and center.

 

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  • Comment Link Mary McKinley Monday, 09 November 2009 11:21 posted by Mary McKinley

    We really enjoyed the performance. I brought two guests from SLC with me who were very impressed with the facility and with the Chanticleers! They had never been to a Weber State University performance.

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