Welcome to the The Cherry Creek Chorale's 29th season, "Many Happy Returns", a year of anniversaries and celebrations.

Brian Patrick Leatherman
Artistic Director and Conductor

October 10 & 11, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BETHANY (& ANTONIO!)
Bach: Cantata BWV 80 : "Ein' Feste Burg"
Vivaldi: Gloria
The Cherry Creek Chorale with the Cherry Creek Chorale Chamber Orchestra celebrates the 100th anniversary of our principal performance venue, Bethany Lutheran Church and the 330th anniversary of Vivaldi's birth by presenting two of their best-known choral works.

The Vivaldi Gloria is one of the most popular choral works in history; a combination of exciting choral and orchestral movements interspersed with solo and choral movements of great tenderness and exquisite beauty. Bach's "Ein' Feste Burg" cantata is based on the great Lutheran chorale known as "A Mighty Fortress" in English speaking countries. It is a stirring proclamation of faith by the greatest musical "evangelist" of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach.