(GLASSBORO, NJ) -- Rowan University’s Marie Rader Series presents Chanticleer: Music of a Silent World, Saturday, April 26, 2025 at Pfleeger Concert Hall in Glassboro, NJ. Showtime is 7:30pm.

Hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by the New Yorker, Chanticleer will give nature a voice through their Music of a Silent World program, which centers around contemporary composer Majel Connery’s The Rivers are our Brothers. Each movement of the work represents a part of the natural beauty of our world, from mountains and forests to rocks and rivers, in a piece that encourages people to appreciate, value, and protect natural landscapes.

This engagement with Chanticleer is co-presented with the Sound Planet Music Festival, which presents impactful performances and learning opportunities focused on the climate crisis. Preceding the concert, Connery will visit Rowan and be featured in an environmentally-themed composer's talk on Friday, April 25.

Members of Chanticleer will spend the day with the Rowan University Concert Choir, coaching the student singers and rehearsing together. The Rowan choir will join Chanticleer on stage for a few movements during their April 26 performance.

Pfleeger Concert Hall is a wheelchair-accessible venue with accessible parking and routes. In addition to the standard accommodations offered by the College of Performing Arts events, ASL interpretation will be provided during this event.

Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.

Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the Renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalog to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener’s “Lamentations & Praises”, and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled “Colors of Love.”

Focused on community engagement, artistic integrity, and inclusion, The Marie Rader Presenting Series is a mission-driven program providing access to exceptional performing artists through engagements for the university community and Greater Southern New Jersey region.

The Marie Rader Presenting Series is made possible in part through generous support from the Henry M. Rowan Family Foundation via the Marie Rader Memorial Fund and through funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.