05/02/2026
A Message from our Events & Marketing Admin:
For the last four years, early in the summer work begins for me supporting Cantate Carlisle’s planning for the next season. The Artistic Director Michelle DiBona Trefren and I volley and banter and brainstorm until we have a concise theme to go with her repertoire and I can start creating graphics. From there, we launch all the things that bring the concerts to fruition. In September, and in January, we are joined by scores of auditioned singers, many of whom have extensive professional resumes, to begin rehearsing.
Every semester, when we reach concert weekend, I am honestly amazed to look back at how much work has happened.
Tonight was the "dress rehearsal" for this weekend’s concerts - marking the first time the three choirs merge their voices and add in the instrumentalists. As always, I could hear them from the lobby of the Carlisle Theatre while I set up front of house. And I could feel myself smiling as I listened to singers from five years to far beyond five decades. It is truly an amazing sound to behold. Cantate‘s concerts are always a delightful experience for those who know and love choral music and for people like me who have no musical abilities.
A couple of times this evening, I ran into the theatre to listen a bit and snag a few tidbits of their amazing sounds. The Spring concerts are always extra fun because of the added Children’s Choir and Cantate Young Voices. I hope you’ll join us!
Tickets are available at the door and on the website, www.cantatecarlisle.org. Both Saturday’s and Sunday’s concerts begin at 3 PM. I really hope you’ll be there. The theme this semester is “Mosaic of American Music,” so whether you are knowledgeable of choral music or not, you will hear some songs that you recognize and will leave feeling uplifted. 
Here are a few teasers that I snagged this evening. I can’t even say this was the best of it, just what I was able to do in between my tasks setting up for the weekend. 
All the things you didn’t know were needed - from design work to organizing and preserving archives, from communicating among various groups to planning layouts - that’s what I do, and it brings me great joy to make it all easier, more peaceful, and celebratory for you! Thank you, Cantate BOD et al, for the opportunity to serve you. Dani Taylor, Dani's Pixel Place.
