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We’re thrilled to announce the release of our newest studio recording: THE ELEMENTS, by New York composer Philip Lasser. LISTEN NOW: https://www.cantorinewyork.com/the-elements A Cantori commission, Lasser’s poignant cycle sets American anti-war poetry by e.e. cummings, Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway. We presented its world premiere in 2018 in a special program honoring the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I.... Lasser is a professor at Juilliard and director of the EAMA-Nadia Boulanger Institute in Paris. His prolific works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles around the world. THE ELEMENTS, written for choral ensemble and cello duet, was directed by our Artistic Director Mark Shapiro (currently celebrating his 30th season with Cantori!) and features cellists Ari Evan and Philip Sheegog.

It's party time! Join us (virtually!) TONIGHT at 7pm for our annual benefit. This year’s soiree celebrates the release of our newest studio recording, featuring THE ELEMENTS by New York composer Philip Lasser, for chorus and cello duet. Lasser, a professor at Juilliard, will join us to present the piece in conversation with Artistic Director Mark Shapiro. Tonight's event features live-streamed performance by electrifying musical duo ARKAI, a collaboration between violinist ...Jonathan Miron and cellist Philip Sheegog. We’ll also be presenting our annual live auction, back by popular demand. Plus, a special toast to our Artistic Director Mark Shapiro's 30th season with Cantori! Raise a glass with our exclusive Cantori-tini recipe. Cheers! TIX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantori-release-party-the-elem

Have you reserved your spot yet? Don't miss our annual benefit tomorrow night! This year’s soiree celebrates the worldwide release of Cantori's new studio recording: Philip Lasser's THE ELEMENTS. Join us tomorrow, March 19 at 7pm as we toast the last day of Winter and take our first bold step into the new season.... TIX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantori-release-party-the-elem

Pop the cork and raise a glass: Spring Benefit is almost here! Join us THIS Friday at 7pm to celebrate our new studio recording THE ELEMENTS with special appearances by the composer and live music by ARKAI. The virtual party opens with a toast to Mark Shapiro's 30th season. Since 1991, our exuberant and versatile conductor is the driving force behind Cantori's renowned commissions, including THE ELEMENTS. Recipe for our exclusive Cantori-tini is in the photo but a gla...ss of anything will do as long as you bring yourself and love of music! Don’t miss this special Cantori event! TIX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantori-release-party-the-elem Cheers!

Grab a drink and join us THIS FRIDAY 7PM for our Spring benefit! The virtual party includes live performance from musical duo ARKAI. Their genre-bending fusion of electrified strings is the brainchild of Philip Sheegog (featured cellist on Cantori's THE ELEMENTS) and Jonathon Miron. ARKAI creates programs in which the arts are inseparable from community. Their newest initiative, SupportNYC, is designed to revitalize small businesses and organizations that have been adversely ...impacted by COVID-19 through fundraising performances across NYC. Beyond its direct proceeds, SupportNYC amplifies the diverse stories of their partners, spreading hope and healing through the power of the arts. A passionate advocate for collaboration and commissioning, Mr. Sheegog has premiered over seventy new works by living artists, including over thirty direct commissions. Don’t miss this special Cantori event! TIX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantori-release-party-the-elem

What’s Cantori/Quasi, you may ask? Livestreamed on Zoom, our monthly four-part series features both new and historical Cantori recordings, with expert context and commentary from special guest speakers including composers, performers and scholars. Our Artistic Director Mark Shapiro (currently celebrating his 30th season with Cantori!) leads these lively conversations as our host and emcee. NEXT UP: MARCH 19 - our annual benefit party and an exclusive conversation with comp...oser Philip Lasser in honor of our new album release. TIX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantori-release-party-the-elem

IT'S TONIGHT! Join us THIS EVENING at 7pm for the latest installment of CANTORI/QUASI, our monthly live-streamed salon! Tonight's special Valentine’s program showcases The Best-Beloved by New York composer Chris DeBlasio. Critical theorist Dr. Jeremy Cohan, winner of an NYU Teaching Award, will be joining us to discuss the texts. There's still time to register! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantoriquasi-the-best-beloved-

Introducing Dr. Jeremy Cohan -- guest speaker at this week's CANTORI/QUASI event, our monthly live-streamed salon! THIS THURSDAY, Feb. 11 at 7pm, we'll be presenting a special Valentine's program showcasing The Best-Beloved by New York composer Chris DeBlasio, four motets setting Jacobean-era poetry. Dr. Cohan will be joining us to explore the texts. The recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Award from New York University as well as the Fiske Poetry Prize from the Universi...ty of Chicago, Dr. Cohan is Director of the Honors Program at the School of Visual Arts. A long-time member of Cantori New York, he has served as President of the Society for Psychoanalytic Inquiry and was Scholar-in-Residence at Art Space. He's published in Damage Magazine and The Point. A sociologist by trade and a lover of literature at heart, Dr. Cohan studied under the late poet and essayist Mark Strand, a former poet laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. We're thrilled to have him join us -- and we hope you will too! Register below! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantoriquasi-the-best-beloved-

Have you saved the date?? Join us THIS THURSDAY, February 11 at 7 pm, for the next installment of CANTORI/QUASI, our monthly live-streamed salon presenting music and conversation with composers, scholars and Artistic Director Mark Shapiro. This special Valentine’s program showcases The Best-Beloved by New York composer Chris DeBlasio. Critical theorist Dr. Jeremy Cohan, winner of an NYU Teaching Award, joins us to discuss the texts. DeBlasio, lost to AIDS in 1993 at age 34, w...as best known for his songs and song cycles. Among his most famous works is his song Walt Whitman in 1989, setting poetry by Perry Brass; it’s published in the AIDS Quilt Songbook, a collaborative collection started in 1992, intended to raise awareness and combat stigma surrounding the HIV/AIDS epidemic. A singer as well as a composer, DeBlasio attended New York University and the Manhattan School of Music. In addition to songs, he also wrote music for plays, musical theater, operettas and liturgical music. Composer John Corigliano, a former teacher, remembered him to The New York Times as just a very terrific young man who was in love with music. DeBlasio wrote The Best-Beloved in 1990. By turns lyrical and fierce, this rarely heard four-part cycle explores our sources of strength in hard times, culminating in a glorious affirmation: My beloved is mine, and I am his. The Best-Beloved was a featured work on Cantori's first-ever CD, Echoes and Shadows (PGM Recordings). Register below! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantoriquasi-the-best-beloved-

Tune in Thursday, February 11 at 7 pm for the first installment of CANTORI/QUASI, our monthly live-streamed salon presenting music and conversation with composers, scholars and Artistic Director Mark Shapiro. This special Valentine’s program showcases The Best-Beloved by New York composer Chris DeBlasio. Critical theorist Dr. Jeremy Cohan, winner of an NYU Teaching Award, joins us to discuss the texts. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-best-beloved-tickets-13852

Wrapping up 2020 with endless gratitude for our patrons near & far -- we couldn't do it without you!

This has been a year unlike any other. But our zeal for music has never wavered. Three major new commissions. Safe, outdoor rehearsals. Our first commercial recordings in a decade. Behind the inspired leadership of Mark Shapiro, our community of composers and singers is poised to emerge stronger than ever. As we look forward to resuming live performance, we need you -- our devoted patrons -- more than ever. Your gift ensures we can continue underwriting the diverse and adventurous programming that speaks to this critical moment.

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