CHANTICLEER IN MUSIC (VERY) OLD, (VERY) NEW
BERKELEY—With Chanticleer there’s a musical magic that sweeps you, right along with the perfection of harmonies and tuning. The all-male local chorus of 12, unaccompanied throughout, remains a paragon to compare with the elite European groups. Having in the mix that rarest of all species, male sopranos, enables Chanticleer’s performing a much wider repertoire, including mixed choruses, or choirs of men and boys. “Singing in Chanticleer is basically a young man’s game,” explains the new Music Director William Fred Scott,…