Cantabile Presents: The Beauty Around Us

Join us for the final concerts of our 2024-25 season, featuring an extraordinary collaboration between Cantabile and the Boulder Bassoon Quartet. This unique program celebrates the beauty of nature through music.

**Program highlights:**

– World premiere of the newly-commissioned composition *I Shall Raise My Lantern* by **Greg Simon for chorus and bassoon quartet
– Bill Douglas’s *Three Earth Songs* featuring the Boulder Bassoon Quartet
– A cappella works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Craig Hella Johnson, and Shawn Kirchner celebrating nature
– Special outdoor performance at the iconic Boulder Bandshell
– Live-streamed concert on May 11th

🗓️ Friday, May 9th | 7:30 PM – First Congregational Church

🗓️ Sunday, May 11th | 3:00 PM – First Congregational Church (live-streamed)

🗓️ Sunday, June 1st | 3:00 PM – Boulder Bandshell

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**Venues:**

📍First Congregational Church, Boulder

1128 Pine Street Boulder, CO 80302

📍Boulder Bandshell

1212 Canyon Blvd, Boulder 80302

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**Ticket links**

Friday, May 9th | 7:30 PM

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantabile-presents-the-beauty-around-us-may-9-2025-tickets-1284439616469?aff=onlinecalendars

Sunday, May 11th | 3:00 PM

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cantabile-presents-the-beauty-around-us-may-11-2025-tickets-1284438452989?aff=onlinecalendars