Ray says that this is likely his last concert with Jackson and Almeda Berkey’s choir. He’s said that before, but … I think he means it this time. (We’re all really BUMMED!)

So, I wanted to snag some pix for our Web Site! Unfortunately, I only had a small memory card for my digital camera. So, this page is IT!

I’m going to “snatch” some text about the Cantorum to jazz-up this page. And, since I don’t want Jackson to be peeved with me about doing that, I’ll be sure to start right off with a LINK to the Cantorum Web Site! (I would have put a link here, anyway, Jackson – I swear it!)

Soli Deo Gloria Cantorum
HERE’s The LINK!
(It was WAY too much PINK to put the title in a LINK! LOL)

Nebraska's Professional Chorale, is the product of the creative imagination of Almeda and Jackson Berkey, performing artists of Mannheim Steamroller fame. For years the Berkeys envisioned a choral group versatile in many styles of music and comfortable in a variety of performance and recording settings. The Cantorum's fulfillment of that vision has surpassed even their own expectations. The inspiration that led to forming the 28-member group can be traced not only to the Berkeys' sense of devotion to music, but to the influence of the late Norman Luboff as well. Almeda and Jackson Berkey met prior to a national tour with the famed Luboff choir -- Almeda as a singer, Jackson as a tour pianist. This combination of rare talents has lifted their musical accomplishments to heights which neither could have achieved individually.

The three words, Soli Deo Gloria, mean "to God alone the glory" and were penned as a postscript by Johann Sebastian Bach to many of his manuscripts. Cantorum represents "singers." Not all of the group's music is of the sacred genre, however. Nor is it all classical. The versatility of the singers and the Berkeys' own musical backgrounds has allowed the group to perform a remarkably diverse array of music.

WHAT IS MAN? Sunday, February 24, 2002 3:00 PM First Presbyterian Church 840 South 17th Street Lincoln

The whimsical title was explored by Henry Purcell in a wonderful early operatic aria. It also stirs the imagination to hear the men of Soli Deo Gloria Cantorum. If the basses are the foundation, the tenors raise the roof! The combination of timbre and the wonderful musicianship of these fine ensemble and solo singers brings to life repertoire that insures pleasure. Whether it be a rousing male glee club sound or polyphonic masterpiece or a charming folk song, a musical reward is guaranteed!

Almeda Berkey is the Cantorum’s Musical Director. (The only woman in the pic! You can’t miss her!) Jackson Berkey was pictured playing the piano in the first photo (Above). Here, he’s singing with the Cantorum Men.

Put your MOUSE on the pic!

MINI-VID O’ Ray’s Swan Song (Solo)! I’m so peeved that I didn’t get the whole solo! I was LATE in whacking the GO button. THEN I ran out of memory card space RIGHT BEFORE the very LAST COUPLE OF NOTES!!! ARRRRRGGGGG! The “quality” of the video is pretty krappy, too. I wonder if it’s a distance and focus thing. Ah well. Such is Life.

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This COUNTER was started on February 24th, 2002.