|
Concert 1: MUSIC OF JOYFUL ANTICIPATION
Saturday, November 23, 2002, 8:00 PM, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Instrumentalists of The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music
Ticket information
Chant: Alma Redemptoris Mater
G. Dufay: Alma Redemptoris Mater
J. Ockeghem: Alma Redemptoris Mater
G. Palestrina: Canite Tuba
G. Palestrina: Hodie Christus Natus Est (a8)
H. Schuetz: Hodie Christus Natus Est (a6)
H. Schuetz: Ein Kind ist uns geboren
H. Schuetz: Deutsches Magnificat (a8)
Johann Michael Bach: Sei, lieber Tag, wilkommen
Dietrich Buxtehude: Das neugeborne Kindelein
Benjamin Britten: Three excerpts from A Boy was Born
John Harbison: O Magnum Mysterium
Introduction Program Notes Texts and Translations Performing Artists Complete Program
|
Join us for a great season of superb music and compelling collaborations! SUBSCRIBE NOW!
The whole can indeed be greater than the sum of its parts. You will hear the truth of this when you subscribe to the Twenty-Third Season of The Spectrum Singers
The Spectrum Singers welcome back The Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra, and also initiate a collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its esteemed conductor Craig Smith. In addition, baritone Robert Honeysucker and soprano Janet Brown – truly gifted vocal artists and great favorites of Boston audiences – will return to perform Ein deutsches Requiem of Johannes Brahms.
Beginning in mid-November, The Spectrum Singers will usher in the holiday season at Boston’s beautiful Emmanuel Church singing works spanning early Renaissance chant through the music of today. The chorus will be joined by instrumentalists from the renowned Orchestra of Emmanuel Music. Come hear works by Schuetz, Palestrina, Bach, Britten and Harbison – all will boost your holiday spirit!
Then, on February First, Emmanuel Music will close its seven-year celebration of the music of Franz Schubert by presenting what many consider to be the greatest of his unknown operas, Alfonso und Estrella. The Spectrum Singers are honored to participate as the chorus of hunters, soldiers and townspeople, joining top-drawer soloists and The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music. Craig Smith will direct this poignant story of two young lovers whose attraction reunites their estranged fathers.
This event is sure to sell out. However, The Spectrum Singers will make specially priced tickets available to this year’s Season Subscribers, as a way of thanking them for their loyal support.
Concertgoers and singers alike cherish Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem and many select this dramatic and heartfelt work as their very favorite choral composition. Come on March 28 to hear why this is so. The Spectrum Singers welcome the return of The Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Hangen, Music Director, and vocal artists Janet Brown and Robert Honeysucker. Music Director John W. Ehrlich will lead this performance in Boston’s Tremont Street landmark building of The Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. Paul.
In mid-May The Spectrum Singers return to Cambridge to celebrate Spring and Romance with the widely acclaimed guitarist John Muratore. Highlights include Romancero Gitano by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco featuring verse of Frederico Garcia Lorca set to stirring music for chorus and guitar, works welcoming the arrival of Spring by Janequin, Debussy, Finzi, Stanford and Brahms, and Virgil Thomson’s delightful Four Songs Set to the Poems of Thomas Campion accompanied by clarinet, viola and harp.
|
| Special Event: Emmanuel Music presents SCHUBERT: ALFONSO UND ESTRELLA (D. 732). An opera in concert
Saturday, February 1, 2003 7:30 PM, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
|
| Concert 3: SPRING RITES AND ROMANCE
Saturday, May 17, 2003, 8:00 PM. 1st Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street Cambridge
Ticket information
John Muratore, solo guitar
Mary Ruth Ray, Viola; Judy Saiki, Harp; Ian Greitzer, Clarinet
Clement Janequin: Le Chant des Oiseaux
Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orleans
Gerald Finzi: My Spirit Sang All Day
Gerald Finzi: I Praise the Tender Flower
Gustav Holst: Come to Me
Charles Stanford: The Blue Bird
Johannes Brahms: Waldesnacht
Johannes Brahms: Abendlied
Karl Rheinberger: Abendlied
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Romancero Gitano
Virgil Thomson: Four Songs set to the Poems of Thomas Campion
William Walton: Five Bagatelles (excerpts)
Emilio Pujol: Trois Morceaux Espagnol
Introduction Program Notes Texts and Translations Performing Artists Complete Program
|
