Chanticleer is a male vocal ensemble with a wide repertoire that performs throughout the world. They first performed in 1978 and since have established a respected reputation for excellence in music.
In 2000, Joseph Jennings (conductor) and Chanticleer won a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance for their work Colors of Love - Works of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener & Rands.
Chanticleer is the recipient of major grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, The E. Nakamichi Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Carol Franc Buck Foundation, and the City of San Francisco.
Chanticleer selected two of the most significant Mexican composers active in the first half of the eighteenth century and, in performances of outstanding quality, show that they are not merely pale imitations of their European counterparts, but have something original to say and the craftsmanship with which to say it.
Chanticleer is an all-male, all-adult choir (of 12 singers in the present recording), which means that Palestrina's soprano lines as well as the alto ones are taken by countertenors.
Chanticleer, a rooster appearing in fables surrounding the fables of Reynard the Fox.
The most famous of these is probably Chanticleer and the Fox, a version of which is told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Chanticleer Community Theater, providing an educational, entertaining, cultural, and historic experience for the greater Council Bluffs Community through the performing arts.