Cantus Anniversary Concert

Cantus started ten years back as a collective of the St. Olaf College Choir’s finest male graduates. They were not just fine singers but also, as it happens, pretty fine-looking to boot, which could help to explain the troupe’s staying power. Cantus now celebrates its first decade with a concert that flits through the group’s unusual repertoire, which includes Smokey Robinson’s “Who’s Lovin’ You” and a pop rearrangement of “Danny Boy.” But the program’s highlight is sure to be the finale, a Cantus-commissioned world premiere by Wisconsin-born composer Lee Hoiby. It’s inspired by one of the many “deliver-in-case-of-death” letters to come out of Iraq, addressed to the wife and children an American soldier left behind. 612-435-0046; www.cantusonline.org