JAMES KALLEMBACH composer
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Thank you for considering my music. I have included scores, recordings, and some supplemental materials for my oratorios Most Sacred Body, Easter Oratorio, and Antigone: The Writings of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement. 

Most Sacred Body (commissioned Boston University Marsh Chapel; Scott Allen Jarrett)

 Modeled after Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, this oratorio for choir, soloists, and string orchestra juxtaposes texts from the original with interpolated texts from Milton's Paradise Lost. It is performed every other Good Friday (alternating with the Buxtehude) at Marsh Chapel in Boston. [English, Latin]
Listen on Spotify here. 
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Easter Oratorio (commissioned by Seraphic Fire; Patrick Quigley)

This oratorio for choir, soloists, and small orchestra (the same orchestration as Bach's Easter Oratorio​) is modeled after Easter-themed works of J.S. Bach, with interpolated texts from the first scene of Goethe's Faust, which ends with the dawn of Easter Sunday. Other mystical Holy Week texts are interpolated. [English, Latin, German]
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Antigone: The Writings of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement (commissioned by Lorelei Ensemble; Beth Willer)

This oratorio for women's chorus, soloists, and four cellos is a mini-drama juxtaposing text from Sophocles's Antigone with writings of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement. [English, Latin]
Listen on Spotify here. Read the Opera News review here. Watch an excerpt on video below...
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All photos of James Kallembach are courtesy of  Erielle Bakkum Photography.

Choral

ORATORIOS/MAJOR WORKS
SATB
SSA/TTB

Art Song

A PRIMER OF BIRDS
FOUR ROMANTIC SONGS
JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS

Recordings

​FOUR ROMANTIC SONGS
PASSION
MOST SACRED BODY
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