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Tickets on sale for Cycle II: Babel

"Babel" presents songs in multiple languages about the struggle to communicate. C4 will premiere six pieces, including Brian Mountford's piece "Lest We Be Scattered" and Alexander Boostrom's "Of One Speech," both of which center around the biblical story of the Tower of Babel. Another world premiere, "Restless Spirits" by Bruce Saylor, focuses on the Syrian diaspora and utilizes texts from ancient and contemporary Arab poets. Chino Toledo’s rousing piece "Sitsit Digidong" includes both Tagalog and nonsense syllables in a highly rhythmic and energetic celebration of language and sound. Also on the program: works by Bushra El-Turk, Mario Gullo, and Leah Ofman. 

Click the link below for ticket and venue information, as well as an opportunity to attend a dress rehearsal for free as part of the Composers Now festival.
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C4 performs in Alex Weiser's new opera, State of the Jews

C4 joined the cast of Alex Weiser's opera State of the Jews, which received its world premiere this December. The opera is a historical drama about Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the charismatic and controversial Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist whose writings ignited a mass political movement.

2019 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming

We are thrilled to announce that C4 has won the 2019 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. This is the second time C4 has won this prestigious award, the first time being in 2014. 

The Chorus America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards recognize choruses that demonstrate a sustained commitment to adventurous programming through performances of choral music written in the last 25 years. 

About C4

The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective is a unique ensemble of singers, composers and conductors, performing pieces written within the last 25 years, premiering and commissioning new choral works, and mentoring emerging singers, composers, and conductors of today's choral music.
In a city teeming with exceptional vocal ensembles of every kind, C4 is a standout, not just because of their fine programming and unique collaborative structure, but also for their consistently beautiful and balanced sound, excellent precision, warmth, and energy.
~ Lauren Alfano, I Care If You Listen
A highlight was Niimi’s Concerto for Chorus (Bios)...which was given a scintillating account by 18 singers in the ensemble C4, with Timothy Brown conducting...[T]his nine-minute a cappella work for mixed chorus featured much divisi writing and complex polyrhythms that Brown and the singers transformed into exhilarating vocal pyrotechnics.
~ John Fleming, Classical Voice North America
Their subtly attuned awareness of each others' musical movements makes their technical virtuosity seem near effortless.
~ Jean Ballard Terepka, Theatre Scene
They seem to revel in the challenges other choirs avoid like the plague. ... The group's dynamic is a lesson in exceeding expectations.
~ Christian Carey, Sequenza 21
(photos by Keith Goldstein unless otherwise noted)