Season Archive: 1991

David Hodgkins, Music Director

January 1991: Palestrina's Missa Lauda Sion, together with motets for single and double choirs by Schutz, Guerrero, Vivanco, and others

Saturday, January 26, 1991 8:00 PM
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Longfellow Park
Cambridge, MA

Sunday, January 27, 1991 4:00 PM
Theodore Parker Unitarian Church
West Roxbury, MA

Program:

Jauchzet dem Herren (Psalm 100) Heinrich Schutz
(1585-1672)

Tu Es Petrus Cristobal de Morales
(c. 1500-1553)

O Sacrum Convivium Thomas Tallis
(c. 1505-1585)

O Magnum Mysterium Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
(c. 1525-1594)

Magnificat Octavi Toni Sebastian de Vivanco
(1551-1622)

- Intermission -

Missa Lauda Sion Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
(c. 1525-1594)

Regina Coeli Laetare Francisco Guerrero
(1528-1599)

Program Notes, Texts, and Translations (text file)

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David Hodgkins, Music Director

May/June 1991: Ardente Amor! Passion and the Senses in Italian Music of the Late Renaissance

Sunday, May 5, 1991 4:00 PM
St. John's Episcopal Church
27 Devens Street
Charlestown, MA

Sunday, May 19, 1991 8:00 PM
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Longfellow Park
Cambridge, MA

Tuesday, June 4, 1991 5:45 PM
Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury Street
Boston, MA

Program:

Vecchie letrose Adrian Willaert
(c. 1485-1562)

Io son ferito, ahi lasso Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
(c. 1525-1594)

Zefiro torna Claudio Monteverdi
(1567-1643)

II.

Lamento D'Arianna                         Claudio Monteverdi

   i.    Lasciatemi morire
   ii.   O Teseo mio
   iii. Dove e la fede
   iv.   Ahi, che non pur risponde

- Intermission -

III.

Vox in Rama Giaches de Wert
(1535 - 1596)

Tristis est anima mea Carlo Gesualdo
(c. 1560-1613)

*Ascendente Jesu Giaches de Wert

IV.

O fere stelle Luca Marenzio
(c. 1553-1599)

Se la mia vita Luca Marenzio

La mia Clori e brunetta Luca Marenzio

*
Ascendente Jesu was ultimately not performed, but we would take it on again in January 2007!

Program Notes (text file)

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David Hodgkins, Music Director

December 1991: Four Centuries of Renaissance Polyphony, featuring the Missa Syllabica of 20th-century composer Richard St. Clair

Saturday, December 7, 1991 8:00 PM
Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury Street
Boston, MA

Sunday, December 15, 1991 ?
Christ Church of Hamilton and Wenham
Asbury Street
South Hamilton, MA

Program: (reconstructed from tape cover):

Gloria "ad modum tubae"  Guillaume Dufay
Veni, sancte spiritus   Dufay
Anima mea liquefacta est  Dufay
Ave Regina caelorum   Dufay

Ave Maria    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Confitemini Domino   Palestrina
Alma Redemptoris Mater  Palestrina
Veni sponsa Christi   Palestrina

- Intermission -

Missa Syllabica Richard St. Clair (20th cent)

Commissa mea pavesco Filipe de Magalhaes
Cantate Domino Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

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