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Choir group finds success with release of first recording
Dec. 16, 2011
By Mary Pechar
features@lstribune.net
Kantorei of Kansas City will release their first-ever recording, “Sweet was the Song,” to the public at their concerts this weekend.
The arrangement will also be released electronically on iTunes, Amazon and Rhapsody. CD’s can be ordered from their website,www.kantoreikc.org for $14.95 and shipping is free.
The “Sweet Was the Song” Christmas concert will be a concert of a Capella Christmas music, centering around the telling of the Christmas story through unique and rarely performed selections spanning four centuries. Kantorei of Kansas City is excited to present the United States premiere of five charming Christmas carols by British composer Tim Porter. Also featured will be Felix Mendelssohn’s stunning and powerful op. 79, “Sechs Spruche.” This song cycle outlines the Liturgical year, starting with Christmas and ending in Advent. Rounding out the concert will be a selection of lovely Renaissance Christmas motets.
The first concert will be at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 17 at St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal in Loch Lloyd. Located at 16808 Holmes, St. Mary Magdalene is a charming and beautiful new church with a modern Nave with touches of the traditional and a sparklingly clear sound. Tickets are still available for $15 at the door, or you can purchase and print your ticket online by visiting www.kantoreikc.org/tickets. Student rush is free 10 minutes prior to the concert.
A second concert is planned for 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18 at St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church in Midtown Kansas City. Kantorei has been granted the privilege of being the only outside group performing in KC’s grandest church space. This 195-foot long, 70-foot high Nave has acoustics that are unparalleled in Kansas City. The “Sweet was the Song” CD was recorded at St. Vincent De Paul this summer. Tickets are available at the door for $15, $10 for seniors and student rush is free. Or, go to the website.
“Kantorei began, in its infancy, in 2009 as a choir assembled for the wedding of my brother at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City,” said Artistic Director Chris Munce.
“Later that year, we performed on a concert at Lee’s Summit First Presbyterian under the name ‘Renaissance Voices.’ (We like our new name much better.) The performance was well received and enjoyed greatly by the singers, so my wife Beth and I began to think of a way to do this more often.
“That opportunity came about a year later when my friend Matthew Licausi asked me to assemble a choir for his wedding at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church. This was the excuse we needed to sing together again, so we decided to ask the group to form something more ‘official.’ They were all in., so Kantorei was born.”
Munce is a 1998 graduate of Lee’s Summit North High School and is the Director of Choral Studies at Lee’s Summit High School.
The choir, which became a 501c3 non-profit organization in October, performs a second major concert in the spring.
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