Season Info
Twenty-First Anniversary Season (2011-2012)
For ticket information, please call: (307) 433-1141 or email info@cheyennechambersingers.com
Sure On This Shining Night
Sunday, November 20, 2011, 4:00 pm
First Congregational Church
3501 Forest Drive, Cheyenne
Tickets: $15 Adults/$10 Seniors and Students
Under the direction of newly appointed Artistic Director and Conductor, Sean Ambrose, the Cheyenne Chamber Singers will begin the 2011-2012 season with a program called Sure On This Shining Night, which bookends two works of that title—the first composed by the romantic and impassioned 20th century composer, Samuel Barber. The final piece on the program uses the same poetry of James Agee in a work by a living master of choral composition, Morten Lauridsen. The concert will include the lovely When Icicles Hang, by John Rutter, a choral cycle for winter.
A Chamber Singers’ Christmas: Sing Joy!
Sunday, December 18, 2011, 3:30 pm and 6:00 pm BOTH PERFORMANCES SOLD OUT
Wyoming Hereford Ranch
Tickets: $15 Adults/$10 Seniors and Students
Directions: I-80 East from Cheyenne to Exit 367 (Campstool Rd). Campstool South (right) to Hereford Ranch Road. Turn East (left) at the sign. Drive between two stone posts!.
The Cheyenne Chamber Singers return to the gracious and beautifully decorated home of Dr. Sloan and Anna Marie Hales, at the Wyoming Hereford Ranch, for a celebration of the season. There will be two performances with a reception in between. Sacred and secular music of the season will be performed.
The Peaceable Kingdom
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 3:00 pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
1908 Central Avenue, Cheyenne
Tickets: $15 Adults/$10 Seniors and Students
This early spring Sunday afternoon concert in mid-Lent features the Cheyenne Chamber Singers performing the choral masterwork of Randall Thompson, The Peaceable Kingdom. A commission from the League of Composers in 1935 led to the composition of The Peaceable Kingdom scored for a cappella chorus. Thompson was greatly influenced by the eighteenth-century American artist Edward Hicks’ painting entitled The Peaceable Kingdom. The painting portrays a child amongst a large group of animals serenely lying together as described in the book of Isaiah, “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . “. Intrigued by this passage, Thompson studied the full book of Isaiah and from it selected eight texts referencing the themes of peace and good versus evil.
Wyoming Voices
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 3:00 pm
Location TBA, Gillette, Wyoming
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Sunday, April 29, 2012, 6:00 pm
South High School Auditorium, Cheyenne
Tickets: $15 Adults/$10 Seniors and Students
In a first-time collaboration, the Cheyenne Chamber Singers, under the direction of Sean Ambrose, will join the Gillette Chamber Singers, under the direction of Dr. Pat Patton, in an afternoon spring program of secular and sacred works.