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KC Jukebox with Chanticleer

Calendar
Tickets
When:
April 2, 2019 @ 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
2019-04-02T19:30:00-04:00
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Where:
Kennedy Center
2700 F Street NW
Washington
DC
Cost:
$39
Music/Concert
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Composer in Residence Mason Bates continue the 2018–2019 season of their immersive new-music series, KC Jukebox, with the renowned male a cappella group Chanticleer on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in the Family Theater. The penultimate program of the KC Jukebox season will feature the music by Robert Shaw, Kurt Weill, Steven Stucky, Ned Rorem, and Queen’s Freddie Mercury—all anchored by Bates’s 30-minute song cycle, Sirens.
Bates composed the 12-part a cappella work, Sirens, for Chanticleer in 2009 and noted “this cycle casts a wide net in exploring seduction music.” Separated into five movements, the text is based on Book XII of the Odyssey, poems by Heinrich Heine and Pietro Aretino, and a sacred prayer of the Quechua Indians in South America. Sirens explores the notion that sirens are not only a sign of danger, but perhaps a symbol of purity and harmony. Part of DIRECT CURRENT, the Kennedy Center’s two-week celebration of contemporary culture, Chanticleer’s program features new vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Continuing to reinvent the traditional concert experience, each KC Jukebox event connects audiences directly to the music through a sight and surround-sound experience—projected program notes, contemporary-classical fusion concert, a free after-party featuring guest DJs, and a cash bar.
 
PROGRAM DETAILS
Chanticleer
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Family Theater
Three-time Grammy®-winning male vocal group returns with a program of 20th and 21st century choral music, featuring Mason Bates’s 12-part a cappella song cycle,Sirens.
TICKET AND INFORMATION
Tickets are $39 and information is available at the Kennedy Center Box Office, online at www.kennedy-center.org, or by calling (202) 467-4600.
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