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Monteverdi Vespers – St. Luke in the Fields

– April 29, 2010Posted in: performances
Event Name
Monteverdi Vespers
When
Thursday, April 29, 2010
8:00pm - All Ages Buy Tickets
Where
St. Luke in the Fields (map)
487 Hudson Street
New York, NY
Other Info
The first truly large-scale masterpiece of Western music, Claudio Monteverdi’s monumental 1610 Vespers stands at the junction between Renaissance restraint and Baroque splendor. Sacred music but also high theatre, the dances and virtuosic vocal concerti, alternating with music in the ‘old style’, are performed with one singer per part accompanied by cornets, sackbuts, recorders, organs and strings.

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Mozart Requiem – Merrill Auditorium

– March 30, 2010Posted in: performances
Event Name
Mozart Requiem
When
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
7:30pm - All Ages Buy Tickets
Where
Merrill Auditorium (map)
20 Myrtle Street
Portland , ME 04101
Other Info
(from the venue's website)

The Choral Art Society and Portland Ballet Company collaborate again to bring "Mozart's Requiem" to the Merrill Stage. The Choral Art Singers and Camerata will be joined by soloists Ashley Emerson, soprano; Teresa Herold, mezzo soprano; Steven Wilson, tenor; and Aaron Engebreth, bass.

The dancers of Portland Ballet, together with the Choral Art Society, continue the musical construct of Mozart's vision. The score of Mozart's Requiem is an amazing force bringing the listener through an extraordinary journey as the man and artist struggles at first, then finds knowledge and peace with the eternity that was always present. Choreographer Kennet Oberly's vision portrays the incredible moment of transition that brings forth how we, and everything about us, is connected by the spirit and held together by love.

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Monteverdi Vespers – St. Thomas Church

– March 19, 2010Posted in: performances
Event Name
Monteverdi Vespers
When
Friday, March 19, 2010
7:30pm - All Ages Buy Tickets
Where
St. Thomas Church (map)
1 W. 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
Other Info
In this masterpiece, Monteverdi blends the newer baroque practice with the musical styles of the Renaissance to set the Psalms, Litany and Magnificat of the Vespers service. The result is music that is both dramatic and sublime and which is further enhanced by the exceptional acoustics of Saint Thomas Church. His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, England’s leading early wind ensemble, and Concert Royal Strings accompany the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys in a performance of Monteverdi’s powerful Vespers, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the work’s publication.

Performer(s):

• The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
• His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
• Concert Royal Strings
• John Scott, conductor
• Jolle Greenleaf & Jennifer Ellis Kampani, sopranos
• Geoffrey D. Williams, countertenor
• Oliver Mercer & Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenors
• Richard Lippold & Christopher Herbert, baritones
• Craig Phillips, bass

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Saint Thomas Choir to sing Duruflé Requiem To Honor John Mills Neiswanger

– March 3, 2010Posted in: performances

On Thursday, March 4, 2010, at 5:30 PM the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys will sing the exquisitely beautiful Requiem by Maurice Duruflé. The mass will be sung to honor John Mills Neiswanger, a beloved member of Saint Thomas Church and great supporter and friend of the Music program there.

Full details of this service, along with a link to stream the audio of the service free of charge, can be found here. The service will stream live and then be archived permanently there.

http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/calendar/2010/03/04/global/requiem-for-john-mills-neiswanger/

Listen Online: Saint Thomas NYC Ash Wednesday Services

– February 17, 2010Posted in: performances

Both Ash Wednesday services from February 17, 2010, are now archived and available to listen on-demand from here:

http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/calendar/2010/02/17/

Music performed was:

  • Introit: Call to remembrance, O Lord, Richard Farrant (c. 1530-1580)
  • Psalm: 51, Miserere mei, Deus, Gregorio Allegri (c. 1582-1652)
  • Service: Missa Quarti Toni, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
  • Anthem: Emendemus in melius, William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)

Note that from this page, you will link to a file that will launch Windows Media Player and the stream will play from there. Mac users will need to have the free Flip4Mac plugin for QuickTime. Information about Flip4Mac can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/flip4mac.mspx.

Trinity Wall Street NYC: Contemporary A Cappella Scandinavian Choral Works

– February 3, 2009Posted in: performances, Video

The webcast for the February 2009 concert Contemporary A Cappella Scandinavian Choral Works at Trinity Wall Street New York City has been archived on their website. It was a great honor for me to have been invited to join the wonderful Trinity Choir for this concert.

In addition to singing with the Choir, I perform the opening solo in the second piece of the concert, Lars Edlund’s Gloria. This solo was written using 1/4 tone tunings as part of the vocal line; the composer’s intention was to create a sense of walking through a large church with many different sounds coming from many different places in the building. You may also notice that I’m hitting my head with a piece of metal; this is a tuning fork and is assisting me to stay on pitch. I’m hitting it on my head simply out of convenience.

The solo begins after 8 minutes and 45 seconds into the webcast. The stream is here:

http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/webcasts/videos/music-at-trinity/the-trinity-choir/contemporary-a-cappella-scandinavian-choral-works

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