Cantus Choir & Orchestra presents Jenny Oaks Baker’s THE REDEEMER on March 28

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JENNY OAKS BAKER and
CANTUS CHOIR & ORCHESTRA presents

THE REDEEMER

MUSIC ON THE LIFE OF JESUS THE CHRIST

MARCH 28, 2025
THE BRANDT CENTER

Cantus Choir & Orchestra (the adult edition of Cantus Youth Choirs) announces its debut performance THE REDEEMER with Grammy-nominated violinist Jenny Oaks Baker on Friday, March 28, 2025 at NNU’s Brandt Center. THE REDEEMER is a sacred Easter oratorio about Jesus Christ directed by Keith McCauley and Tom Phelps.

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THE REDEEMER
Friday, March 28, 2025
7pm to 9:30pm
NNU’s Brandt Center
707 Fern Street
Nampa ID, 83686

THE REDEEMER is a two-act concert composed and arranged by Emmy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated 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.