JENNY OAKS BAKER and
CANTUS CHOIR & ORCHESTRA presents
THE REDEEMER
MUSIC ON THE LIFE OF JESUS THE CHRIST
MARCH 28, 2025
THE BRANDT CENTER
Introducing Cantus Choir & Orchestra, an adult project singing and playing Jenny Oaks Baker’s, THE REDEEMER
Jenny Oaks Baker is returning to the Treasure Valley to perform Kurt Bestor’s sacred Easter oratorio, THE REDEEMER, on March 28, 2025. Cantus is organizing an adult choir (ages 18+) and adult orchestra to perform with her. Current Cantus members who are 10th grade and older, may also participate. Directed by Keith McCauley and Tom Phelps.
Friday, March 28, 2025 at NNU’s Brandt Center
Join the Choir
We’re taking 80 singers: 25 sopranos, 25 altos, 15 tenors, and 15 basses.
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Join the Orchestra
We’re taking 42 players: woodwinds, brass, strings, harp, and percussion.
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About THE REDEEMER
THE REDEEMER is a sacred oratorio about Jesus Christ. It is a two-act concert composed and arranged by Kurt Bestor for solo violin; solo cello; piano; solo soprano, tenor/narrator and bass; full orchestra; and choir.
This work takes familiar and new sacred music from the general Christian canon and sets those songs to significant events in the life of Jesus Christ. Audiences will recognize familiar melodies such as Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria, which is contextualized with The Annunciation. Audiences will hear Handel’s For Unto Us A Child Is Born (Born this Day), And the Glory of the Lord (The King Returns), and Hallelujah Chorus (The Ascension) from MESSIAH. Come Follow Me; O Divine Redeemer; In Humility, Our Savior; and I Stand All Amazed are other familiar songs virtuosically and tenderly performed in this work.
Jenny et al will be performing this work in Nampa, Idaho; St. George, Utah; Chandler, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; Atlanta, Georgia; Seattle, Washington; and Las Vegas, Nevada. The Idaho performance will be conducted by Keith McCauley and Tom Phelps.
