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Performances in the
2004-2005
concert season
- Sunday, Sept. 12,
2004, 5:00 pm: Vocal ensemble Cantabile
will perform an all Josquin des Prez
program in memory of founding member Catherine L. Bowers at Pacem in
Terris , 96
Covered Bridge Rd., Warwick, NY 10990.
- Saturday, Sept. 25,
2004, 8
pm: Performance of
Franz Schubert's six songs on texts by Heinrich Heine, from his final song cycle Schwanengesang (Swan song), with
fortepianist Monica
Jakuc on a concert entitled “Schubert’s Last Works," which also
includes the final piano sonata in Bb major. This is the first concert
of Monica's series "Schubert Times Three." Sweeney Concert Hall,
Sage Hall, Smith College, Northampton MA.
- Sunday, Sept. 26,
2004, 5:00 pm: House concert, home of Suzannah Fabing and
Sandy Muspratt, Amherst, MA, with Kayla Werlin, mezzo-soprano, and Ian
Watson,
harpsichord. Music of Henry Purcell, cheifly drawn from The Fairy Queen. Benefit for Arcadia Players. Cocktails and croquet at five, music at six, a little
schmoozing afterward.
- Friday, Oct. 8,
2004, 8
pm: Tenor soloist in Johann
Sebastian Bach's Cantata No. 37, Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, with
Arcadia Players, Ian
Watson, Artistic Director. Program also includes Bach's Orchestral
Suite No. 1 in C, and his Brandenburg
Concerto No. 5 in D. Helen Hills Hills
Chapel,
Smith College, Elm St., Northampton MA. $22 general admission,
$40 reserved, $10 students.
- Saturday, Oct. 9,
2004, 8
pm: Program of songs and readings on
texts by Emily Dickinson, with soprano Laura Doughty and tenor James
Mead, reader Doris Abramson, pianist Jamie Goodnow, violinist TBA. I
will be singing seven songs by Willis Bridegam and joining the others
for duets and trios. Part of the 9th biennial "Emily Dickinson's
World Weekend" sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist
Society of Amherst. First Congregational
Church, 165 Main St., Amherst MA.
- Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, 9:15 am
& 11 am: Songs from the cycle Gravestones at Hancock N.H. by Nicolas Slonimsky,
accompanied by Gregory Hayes at the piano, during both morning services
of the Unitarian Society of
Northampton and Florence, 220 Main St., Northampton MA.
- Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004, 3 pm:
Singers' Project, in which I sing baritone and tenor, will present a
concert version of a full liturgical mass from the 17th century,
William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices,
complete with the propers (special hymns, chants and anthems) for All
Saints Day, which happens to be celebrated on the same day. Elizabeth
Hart, director. Grace Episcopal Church, Boltwood Ave. (on the common),
Amherst MA.
- Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004, 10
am: Premiere of a musical setting of Psalm 23 by Willis
Bridegam, Amherst composer and Librarian Emeritus of Amherst
College. During 10 am worship service at South Congregational
Church, 1066 South East St. (on Fiddler's Green), Amherst MA
.
- Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, 8 pm:
Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir in which I sing
baritone and tenor, presents Christmas
with
Novi at Hampton Congregational Church,
63 Main Street (Rte. 97),
Hampton, CT. This program is Novi’s traditional
fine arts concert, with Christmas music spanning the ages, from
Gregorian chant to contemporary. This year Novi will perform motets by
Schütz, Clerambault, Gombert, and Poulenc, with contemporary
arrangements of familiar carols by Willcocks, Cleobury, and others.
Organist John Anderson will accompany on the pipe organ and
harpsichord, and will do several solo works appropriate to the season.
- Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004, 3:30 pm:
Novi Cantori,
the Longmeadow-based chamber choir in which I sing baritone and tenor,
presents its annual Carol Festival
at First
Congregational
Church, 18 Broad St., Westfield MA. This is a program for people of all
ages, with audience participation in several carols accompanied by
brass quartet and organ. Novi will perform a portion of their fine arts
program, and the New England Brass Quartet and organist John Anderson
will each perform solo numbers. This concert will feature two
premieres: an arrangement of "Angels We Have Heard on High" by director
Allan Taylor, and "A Christmas Medley" for brass quartet, arranged by
Steve Glover, bass trombonist with the New England Brass.
- Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, 4 pm:
Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir in which I sing
baritone and tenor, presents Christmas
with
Novi at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 82 Howard St.,
Springfield
MA. See details for Dec. 3 concert above.
- Friday, Dec. 10, 2004, 7:30 pm:
Tenor soloist and chorus member in complete performance of Handel's Messiah,
presented by Arcadia Players
Baroque
Orchestra and Chorus, Ian Watson, director. Christ
Church Cathedral, 35 Chestnut St., Springfield MA. Check Arcadia's website for ticket
prices, directions, etc.
- Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004, 7:30 pm:
Tenor soloist and chorus member in complete performance of Handel's Messiah,
presented by Arcadia Players
Baroque
Orchestra and Chorus, Ian Watson, director. Helen Hills Hills
Chapel, Smith College, Elm St. (Rt. 9), Northampton MA. Check Arcadia's website for ticket
prices, directions, etc.
- Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004, 1 pm:
Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir in which I sing
baritone and tenor, presents Christmas
with
Novi at the Old Meeting House, Route 57, Granville MA. See
details for Dec. 3 concert above.
- Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, 8 pm:
Hodie, a newly formed
chamber choir under the direction of Smith College choral conductor
Deanna Joseph, presents its first concert of familiar and unusual
Christmas music as a benefit for Jessie's House, a
shelter serving homeless families in Hampshire County. Hodie (Latin for "This day") draws
its membership from the Smith College community as well as singers from
a number of area choral ensembles who can't get enough of a good
thing. Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Smith College, Elm St. (Rt. 9),
Northampton MA.
- Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004, 3 pm: Novi Cantori,
the Longmeadow-based chamber choir in which I sing baritone, presents
its annual Carol Festival
at St.
Andrew's Episcopal Church, 335 Longmeadow St. (Rt.5), Longmeadow
MA. See details for Dec. 4 concert above.
- Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005, ca. 6:30
pm: Vocal ensemble Cantabile
(in which I sing bass) performs a short program of chanson and motets
by Josquin des
Prez prior to a private Renaissance dinner hosted for the
Amherst Rotary Club at the Massachusetts
Center for Renaissance Studies,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005, ca. 8:30
pm: Tenor soloist (Evangelist) in a read-through of Parts
1-3 of J.S. Bach's
Weihnachts-Oratorium (Christmas
Oratorio). Hampshire Choral Society, Allan Taylor, director. First
Church of Christ (UCC), 129 Main St., Northampton MA
- Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005, 10
am: Premiere of a musical setting of Psalm 33 by Willis
Bridegam, Amherst composer and Librarian Emeritus of Amherst
College. Duet with soprano Anita Cooper. During 10 am worship service
at South Congregational
Church, 1066 South East St. (on Fiddler's Green), Amherst MA
- Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005, 2:30
pm: Baritone
soloist in
a Community Sing of Ein deutsches Reqiuem (A German requiem) by
Johannes
Brahms, presented by the Grace
Church
Center for Sacred Music, Elizabeth Hart, director. Grace
Epicopal Church, Boltwood Ave., Amherst MA. Free.
- Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005, 4
pm: Complete performance of the Romantic song
cycle Die
schöne Magelone (The lovely Magelone) by Johannes
Brahms, with pianist Janet St. Jean, with two
Amherst College narrators, Greg Hedin’06 and Wendy Mejia’05.
Based on a 15th century French tale retold by German
poet Ludwig Tieck, this song cycle features a valiant
young knight, Count Peter of Provence, in pursuit of the beautiful
Italian maiden Magelone and their action-packed adventures involving
jousts, shipwrecks, abduction, desertion, and love forever. The piece
consists of 15 songs which are interspersed in a fairy-tale like
narration. Performance in German, with side-by-side translations
provided. Sponsored by the Departments of German and French, the
European Studies Program, the Eastman Fund, and the German House. Porter
House,
46 Boltwood Ave., Amherst MA (next to Lord Jeffery Inn). Free and open
to
the public. See the
poster (in PDF format). For directions to Porter
House, see: http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/visit/
- Friday, Mar.
11, 2005, evening: After the 30th
Anniversary Banquet of Valley Light Opera, I will sing
the role of Archibald Grosvenor in a concert performance of All
at Sea (A Gilbert and Sullivan Dream) by David Stevens and Harvey
Worthington Loomis, which
artfully weaves together songs, choruses, and characters from five of
the best-known G&S operas. Directed by Bill Venman, principal roles
will be sung by many of VLO's past, present, and most talented
performers. University of Massachusetts Campus Center Auditorium,
Amherst MA
- Sunday, Mar. 13, 2005, 3:30 pm: The
vocal octet Cantabile
(in which I sing bass) performs a concert entitled Saints and Sailors:
Sacred, Sad and Silly Songs of the Sixteenth Century, including
works by Josquin Desprez, Mateo Flecha, Gaspar
Fernandes, Juan Vasquez and Tomas
Luis da Victoria
on the Music at First
concert series, First Church of Christ, Congregational ("Old First
Church"), Court Square, Springfield MA. Free admission. See
the program.
- Friday, Apr. 8, 2005, 8 pm:
Complete performance of Franz Schubert's
song cycle Winterreise (Winter
journey), with fortepianist Monica Jakuc,
presented jointly by Arcadia
Players and the Music at South
Church concert series.
The piano being used in this concert is a 6 1/2 octave replica inspired
by a Conrad Graf fortepiano of c.1819 in Goat Castle, near Prague,
Czech Republic. South Congregational
Church, 1066 South East St. (on Fiddler's Green), Amherst MA. Free-will
offering. (listen to selections
from our March 5, 2004 performance)
- Saturday, Apr. 16, 2005, 8 pm: Tenor soloist and chorus member in Lully & Purcell: Music for the Chapels Royal, including Lully's Te Deum and Purcell's Queen Mary Funeral Music, one performance
only,
presented by Arcadia Players
Baroque
Orchestra and Chorus, Ian Watson, director. Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Smith
College, Elm St., Northampton MA. Check Arcadia's website for ticket
prices, directions, etc.
- Friday, Apr. 22, 2005, 7:30 pm: Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir (in which I sing
baritone and tenor), presents the first performance of its spring
program. Repertoire: Mozart's Vespers for the Feast of a Confessor, selections from Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale, and choral songs by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
First Church of Christ, 81 High St., Suffield, CT. (directions)
- Sunday, Apr. 24, 2005, 4 pm: Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir (in which I sing
baritone and tenor), presents the second performance of its spring
program. Repertoire: Mozart's Vespers for the Feast of a Confessor, selections from Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale, and choral songs by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
St. John's Episcopal Church, 48 Elm St., Northampton MA.
- Sunday, May 1, 2005, 2:30 pm: Performance
of
Franz Schubert's six songs on texts by Heinrich Heine, from his final song cycle Schwanengesang (Swan song), with
fortepianist Monica
Jakuc on a concert entitled “Schubert’s Last Works,"
which also
includes the final piano sonata in Bb major. Our
Mother of Sorrows Chapel at Providence Place, 5 Gamelin Street,
Holyoke,
Massachusetts.
- Sunday, May 1, 2005, 4 pm: Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir (in which I sing
baritone and tenor), presents the third performance of its spring
program.
Repertoire: Mozart's Vespers for the Feast of a Confessor, selections from Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale, and choral songs by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Basilica of St. Stanislaus, 566 Front Street, Chicopee, MA
- Saturday, May 7, 2005, 11 am: Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir (in which I sing
baritone and tenor), will sing Bainton's And I saw a new heaven at a memorial service for our recently-deceased member Jim Rogers, tenor and organist.
- Sunday, June 5, 2005, 3 pm: Tenor soloist in Handel's Utrecht Jubilate and Utrecht Te Deum, with Hampshire Choral Society, Allan Taylor, director. John M. Greene Hall, Smith College, Elm St. (Rt. 9), Northampton MA.
- Tuesday, June 7, 2005, 8 pm: Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir (in which I sing
baritone and tenor), presents the fourth performance of its spring
program. Repertoire: Mozart's Vespers for the Feast of a Confessor, selections from Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale, and choral songs by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
Cathedral of St. Paul, 38 High St., Worcester MA. 7 pm
- Sunday, June 26, 2005, 6 pm: The
vocal octet Cantabile
(in which I sing bass) will perform Mediterranean Madrigals in Spanish, French and Italian at Arcadia Players' New Season Celebration, Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 E.
Pleasant St., Amherst MA, immediately following the 5 pm Annual Meeting of Arcadia Players, Inc., and followed by a pot luck
supper (bring a favorite dish to share!) and an
auction to benefit Arcadia Players, including their famous Cake Auction! Bring
two cakes-we'll enjoy one for dessert, and bid on the other. Free admission. Supper Reservations: 413-256-4888.
- Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 6 pm: Novi
Cantori, the Longmeadow-based chamber choir (in which I sing
baritone and tenor), presents the fifth performance of its spring
program. Repertoire: Mozart's Vespers for the Feast of a Confessor, selections from Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale, and choral songs by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Trinity College Chapel, Hartford CT.
- Thursday, July 28, 2005, 12:15 pm: I will sing a short recital, accompanied by Gretchen Saathoff, piano, on Thursdays at Grace,
a series of noontime concerts sponsored by Grace Episcopal Church, 14
Boltwood Ave. (on the town common), Amherst MA. We will will perform
songs based on the poetry of the great German/Jewish author Heinrich
Heine, to be sung in German and in English translation. The works we
have selected were composed from the 1830s through 2000, and will
include: a brief song cycle Auf dem Meere (On the sea) by the 19th century songwriter Robert Franz; seven songs by Edvard Grieg, Norway's greatest composer; Looking back, a song in English by Paula Kimper, whose opera The Captivation of Eunice Williams saw its premiere in Deerfield in 2004; and the song cycle To Heine
by New York composer Alfred Heller. We also hope to involve the
audience in ranking several comparative musical settings of the same
poem by different composers.
- Sunday, August 21, 2005, 3 pm: "Music
for Marc" house concert, home of Monica Jakuc, Florence, MA, with
Monica, Margaret Irwin-Brandon and Ian
Watson, fortepiano, Alice Robbins, cello, a violinst, and myself. I
sang Beethoven folksong settings with texts by Robert Burns; also on
the program were sonatas by DeFesch and Mozart. Benefit for Arcadia Players in honor of our founding patron, Marc Futter, with champagne reception after the performance.
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