2025-2026 Season

For the People

The 25-26 season for Cantus Novus is entitled “For the People.”  As musicians, the art of singing together can only be fully realized when we share our music with others, with “our people”, our audience members who provide us with emotional as well as financial sustenance.

Honoring Community and Tradition
Dec. 5, 6, 7

We present a concert featuring music rooted in the customs, rituals, and practices of the greater community around us.  Music that touches the aura of what it is that makes us human.   We find in Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, a work of intensity and personal triumph, a testimony to the resilience we rely on amidst the turmoil of the present day.  There too is the sublime beauty of Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, a shimmering contemporary anthem steeped in the history of the Nativity scene.  What follows is a collection of traditional carols freshly arranged for a new generation of celebrations, festivals, and families.  Honoring the past while celebrating the present, is our invitation to join Cantus Novus for what is most assuredly a festive season.

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A Declaration of Independent Joy
May 1, 2, 3

As the country celebrates the 250^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Cantus Novus makes its own declaration of independent joy.  Imagine an entire program of works by American composers from across the centuries. Spirituals, folk songs, anthems of praise, and more will fill the concert hall in May 2026.  Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Randall Thompson, William Billings, as well as 21^st century composers such as Eric Whitacre, Rollo Dilworth, Elaine Hagenberg, and Morten Lauridsen all appear in the repertoire.   We sing “For the People” this season and encourage you to join us in joy and celebration next spring.