…ormers Program information and notes 2. Songs About Hope An intoxicating evening of songs about Hope (Esperance), the allegorical character from the world of the Romance of the Rose who sustains a courtly lover through the thousand pains of lovesickness, enables him to persevere, and teaches him to find delight in his suffering. 6 performers Program information and notes Madrigals 1. Un Petrarchino cantato Petrarch’s Canzoniere in 16th-century mad…
…o Huyd, huyd, o çiegos amadores anonymous So ell enzina anonymous Al alva venid Juan de Urrede (fl. 1451–c. 1482) Nunca fue pena mayor VI Guerrero Antes que comáis a Diós Tomás Luis de Victoria Vidi speciosam sicut columbam Blue Heron Scott Metcalfe, director, violin & harp Margot Rood, Martin Near, Jason McStoots, Mark Sprinkle, Sumner Thompson & Paul Guttry, voices Scott Metcalfe, Johanna Novom, Anna Griffis, Laura Jeppesen & Emily Walhout, viol…
…que, Puccini’s Suor Angelica with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Lorelei Ensemble, Bach’s St. John Passion with the Handel & Haydn Society, Knussen’s Symphony No. 2 with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center debuts with the New York City Chamber Orchestra. A champion of modern music, Sonja curated the award-winning touring program Modern Dickinson (www.moderndickinson.com) and launched the recital project…
…nt instrument and sensitive stage presence, tenor Alexander Nishibun has been singled out as “a delight…capable of stealing the show with a gesture” (Portland Press Herald). Nishibun performs widely in the greater Boston area and collaborates with ensembles throughout the US, singing with Vox Humana, Les Canards Chantants, Cappella Clausura, the Handel & Haydn Society, Kinnara Ensemble, and the Skylark Vocal Ensemble. He has appeared with the Port…
…et Ali Sanlฤฑkol hails from Cyprus and Turkey. A jazz pianist, multi-instrumentalist, and singer, Sanlฤฑkol has been praised by critics all over the world for his unique, pluralist, multicultural and energetic musical voice. The Boston Globe noted that Sanlฤฑkol’s “music is colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling. The multiculturalism is not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized; Sanlฤฑkol is a citizen of th…
…28) Ave vera caro Christi Anonymous (Cancionero de Palacio) Está la Reina del cielo Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590-1664) Stabat mater dolorosa Peñalosa Precor te, Domine Jhesu Christe V. Plainchant with polyphonic verses by Francisco Guerrero & Juan Navarro (c. 1530-1580) Vexilla regis prodeunt (Processional hymn in Passiontide) Martin Near, Jason McStoots, Michael Barrett, David McFerrin, Paul Guttry, voices Marilyn Boenau, bajón Scott Metcal…
…been working as a free-lance composer and living in Brescia, not far from Venice. Just a few years after the publication of this book he would secure the most prestigious post in Italy, chapelmaster for the Duke of Ferrara, so maybe this book functioned like a dissertation or a first academic book, to advertise the composer’s skills to potential employers. Most madrigal prints at this time were part of a series—first book, second book, etc.—but th…
Two B-Level Seats to any concert during the Bicentennial Season of Handel and Haydn Society | Harry Christophers, Artistic Director Voucher is not valid for Mozart Requiem, Handel Messiah, Holiday Sing or Bach Christmas. Next auction item > Fair Market Value: $136.00 Minimum Bid: $100.00 For details on the concerts, visit www.handelandhaydn.org This offer is non-transferable. Seats are subject to availability. Tickets will be held at Will Call an…
…ailable on the Innova label (CD#898). Tickets are $50 for adults, $35 for Seniors, $10 for students or low-income: www.blueheron.org/concerts The high-quality concert video is streamed on Blue Heron’s website and pre-concert talks are live via Zoom. Links and passwords will be emailed 48 hours in advance of the concert. Once the concert date has passed, a recorded version of the pre-concert talk and concert video will remain available to ticket pu…
…ouncil of Learned Societies and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize at Harvard for excellence in teaching, and is the first music historian to be inducted into Johns Hopkins University’s Society of Scholars. He has worked closely with leading vocal ensembles, including The Clerks (dir. Edward Wickham), for whose recording Johannes Regis: Opera omnia he served as advisor. He is musicological advisor for Ockeghem@600, a multi-year project with the award-winnin…
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…You Listen ). Jessica teaches voice privately in the Boston area. She graduated from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in voice and from the University of Michigan in Voice Performance and Education. When not singing, she can be found trying out a new recipe in her kitchen or hiking in the Boston area with her husband, Evan, and children, Will and June. www.jessicapetrussoprano.com…
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