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IF I LEFT THE ZOO TOUR
A concert statement on running away, only to find yourself right where you have always belonged.

When we turn on the news, it doesn’t matter if we are leaning to the right or to the left.  We throw up our hands and dream out loud about moving somewhere else where we can start over again.
 
But what if the slate were actually wiped clean?  What if we could just put all of our foregone national pride behind us and pretend like none of this ever happened?  What if we left this zoo? Would we each eventually find Utopia or would we fall into the same never-ending search as the rest of humanity since the beginning of creation?
 
The Choral Chameleon Ensemble explores the primal instincts in humans and the stories and fables of earth’s creatures and transformations in this epic narrative concert.
 
At the center, the profound “Prayers from the Ark” of British composer, Ivor R. Davies gives a vulnerable empathetic voice to bird, cat, raven, mouse, and dove – but only after showing us a mirror of ourselves in Noah, ever complaining of his exhaustion from the daily grind of work and the world around him.
 
Added to the program are the world premiere of Edward Thompson's whimsical new a cappella trilogy, “Aphorisms of the Zookeeper,” Lauren Bydalek's deeply moving “Pieces of My Heart” and musical comments from our friends, John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the form of “Blackbird” and “I Am the Walrus.”

SCHEDULE
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Saturday, January 18, 2020 | 7:00 PM
St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church I Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, February 22, 2020  |  7:30 PM
Unitarian Church | Westport, CT


Saturday, March 21, 2020 I 3pm & 7pm - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth I Wernersville, PA


Sunday April 26, 2020 I 3pm - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Mead Memorial Chapel 
| Middlebury, VT

We managed to film the first tour date in Brooklyn! Enjoy these moments from the concert

CONCERT REPERTOIRE
*Please note: program subject to change.

What Is Our Life?
Orlando Gibbons

​Prayers from the Ark
Ivor R. Davies

​Save The Country

Adaptation commissioned for this program 2019
Laura Nyro
Arr: Billy Childs
Adapted by Matt Robbins
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Aphorisms of the Zookeeper​
Commissioned for this program 2019
Edward Thompson​

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Pieces of My Heart
Premiered by Choral Chameleon 2018
​Lauren Bydalek

Selections from the Following:
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I Am The Walrus
John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Arr: Jonathan Rathbone


​Blackbird
John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Arr: 
Arr. Daryl Runswick
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​Hallelujah
Commissioned by Chanticleer 2015
Leonard Cohen
Arr: Vince Peterson
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​America the Beautiful
Katharine Lee Bates and Samuel Ward
Arr: Vince Peterson

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