Masters of the Lyric and Profound
Benjamin Britten and Maurice Duruflé
Saturday, May 20, 2000 at 8:00 pm.
Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston
Benjamin Britten
Hymn to St. Cecilia, Cantata Misericordium
Maurice Duruflé
Requiem
Program Notes Texts and Translations Review from The Boston Globe
Performing Artists
Rockland Osgood
tenor
Rockland Osgood, tenor, is frequently praised for his exemplary musicianship, eloquence of expression and immaculate diction. He has appeared with many local ensembles, including the Boston Symphony, Cantata Singers, Back Bay Chorale, Boston Cecilia, The Spectrum Singers, and The Handel and Haydn Society. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart's Requiem. Recent engagements include Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade and Mozart's Mass in c-minor at Lincoln Center, Haydn's The Creation, and Handel's Messiah with John Rutter at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Osgood has also appeared at the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, the New England Bach Festival, the Berkshire Choral Festival, and the Newport Music Festival. Highlights of the current season include Messiah and a Bach and Schubert concert at Avery Fisher Hall, and a return to the Northwest Bach Festival to sing Mass in b-minor with Gunther Schuller.
Mark Andrew Cleveland
baritone
Mark Andrew Cleveland, baritone, has performed with The Cantata Singers, Boston Baroque, The Spectrum Singers, The Masterworks Chorale, The Chorus of Westerly and the New England Classical Singers. He has also performed with the Vermont Symphony as Herod in Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ and has sung the roles of Raphael and Adam in Haydn's The Creation with the Southwest Florida Symphony in Fort Meyers. In addition to his extensive choral repertoire, Mr. Cleveland has given recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Young Artists Series, Boston University's Tsai Performance Center, Chromatic Club of Boston, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, St. Paul's School Keiser Concert Series, as a member of the Manchester Chamber Players and Concord's Musicians of Wall Street, La Donna Musicale, and as a collaborative artist throughout New England. Last season, Mr. Cleveland presented a series of concerts in Holland featuring Schubert's Winterreise.
Gloria Raymond
mezzo-soprano
Gloria Raymond, mezzo-soprano, has extensive experience in a broad range of oratorio, opera, recital, choral and contemporary music performances, and she holds music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Maine. She has been a soloist with numerous ensembles throughout New England, including the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Collage Contemporary Music Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, The Spectrum Singers, the Portland Symphony Chamber Orchestra, the Bangor Symphony, the Mount Desert Summer Chorale, and the Boston Aria Guild. She has participated in music festivals with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, the North Conway Bach Festival and the Berkshire Choral Institute. She has premiered works of Boston composers John Harbison, Donald Sur, Andy Vores, and Earl Kim, and has recorded contemporary works by William Thomas McKinley, Robert Kyr, Peter Child, Nancy Faxon, and Charles Fussell. For many years Ms. Raymond has been a soloist with Emmanuel Music of Boston, performing in their weekly Bach Cantata series, the Brahms and Schubert recital series, and in numerous works by Schütz, Handel, and Mozart. This season's performances include the Bach Christmas Oratorio with The Chatham Chorale, the Mozart Requiem with the Manchester Choral Society, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Indian Hill Music.
James David Christie
organist
James David Christie, organist, has been internationally acclaimed as one of the finest organists of his generation. He has performed throughout North America, Europe and Japan in solo concerts and with major symphony and period-instrument orchestras under such conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Klaus Tennstedt, Gunther Schuller, Arthur Fielder, Colin Davis, Andrew Davis, Simon Rattle, Roger Norrington, Trevor Pinnock, and Christopher Hogwood. He is presently the Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, and serves on the faculties of Wellesley College and the Boston Conservatory. Mr. Christie served as organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1978. Mr. Christie has performed for major music festivals in Boston, New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Montreal, Naples, Leipzig, Dresden, Paris, Brussels, Bruges, Vienna, Milan, London, Warsaw, Perth and Tokyo. His solo performances have been broadcast throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Christie has recorded for Philips, Nonesuch, Decca, Koch International, MusicMasters, RCA, Bridge Records, GM Records, Northeastern Records, JAV, Denon and Naxos. He has been a member of the faculty at the Tempe Organ Institue and McGill (Montreal) Summer Organ Academy. This past season, Mr. Christie has been a visiting professor at conservatories in Paris, Vienna, and New York City.
