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| Cantus Sunday, February 17, 2008, 2:30 p.m. Performing Arts Center General admission: $15, Students $5 Cantus was founded in the fall of 1995 when a few college friends gathered on the campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota to spend time away from the rigors of college life doing something they enjoyed: singing. Since then, Cantus has performed more than 300 concerts across the nation during the past seven years, including appearances at AmericaFest, the Lied Center in Lawrence, Kansas, UCLA Live, the University of Chicago Presents, and many conventions of the American Choral Director's Association. In September 2000, Cantus established itself as a full-time nonprofit arts organization based in Minnesota. In summer 2002, Cantus sang to great acclaim at the Oregon Bach Festival, the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis, and was the choir-in-residence at the International Choral Kathaumixw in British Columbia, Canada. In 2003, Cantus made its first European appearance singing at the Polyfolia festival in Normandy, France. For the last three years Cantus has also appeared in concert with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in a holiday program titled Cantus and Carols, which has been broadcast around the country through Public Radio International. Cantus has also been resident artists at St. John's University, Collegeville, MN. The singers of Cantus are active proponents of music education, encouraging people of all ages, and especially young men, to sing. They are frequent clinicians at festivals, elementary and middle schools, high schools and colleges and universities across the country. Cantus has recorded eight CD's on their own label, Cantus Recordings. Their most releases Let Your Voice Be Heard, … against the dying of the light, and Deep River have been hailed by critics and the public alike. Of these recordings, American Record Guide said; "male chorus fans are in for rare and enchanting treats here. Watch for this unique and charismatic group - it is just the sort of un-stuffy and engaging ensemble this nation needs more of, if we are to continue generating interest in serious music in an overwhelmingly pop-oriented culture. We are likely to be hearing much more from them." |
