Celebrating David Hoose’s 30th Anniversary as Music Director ................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ ...............................................................................................................................THE ADVENTURE................. ......................................................................................................................................... 2012 • 2013 SEASON TABLE OF CONTENTS SAVE THE DATE CANTATA SINGERS VALENTINE’S DAY Welcome • Jennifer Ritvo Hughes, Executive Director 3 Programming’s Potential • David Hoose, Music Director 4 October 28 • Incandescence Amid Shadows 7 Dinner Party & Auction About the Program • Allison Voth 8 November 9 • Rapt In Shadows 13 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH, 2013 About the Program • Craig Smith, David Hoose 14 AT THE HARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON Program Texts 20 January 18 • Divining The Incandescent 27 Please join us on Valentine’s Day for a special night About the Program • Mary MacDonald 28 of dinner, drinks, entertainment and an auction Program Texts 32 with something for everyone, all to benefit Cantata Singers’ March 17 • The Magisterial Ardor 37 concert programming and our education outreach initiative. About the Program • David Hoose, Marjorie Merryman, James MacMillan 38 Program Texts 43 Celebrate with us as we honor David Hoose’s 30th Anniversary Season, and look ahead to May 10 • Rhetoric’s Revolution 47 Cantata Singers’ 50th Anniversary in 2013-2014. About the Program • David Hoose 48 This year’s auction catalogue includes tickets Program Texts 53 for a night on the town to trips around the world and everything in between! About Us Cantata Singers & Ensemble 58 Classroom Cantatas, Cantata Singers’ Education Outreach Initiative 60 Individual tickets are $125; table sponsorships start at $1,000. Contributors 61 A portion of all tickets are tax-deductible, and all proceeds benefit Acknowledgements 63 Cantata Singers, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. To learn more, call (617) 868-5885, email [email protected], or visit us online at cantatasingers.org 1 Cantata Singers & Ensemble Dear Friends, Music Director David Hoose, th Allison Voth, Music Director, Chamber Programs Welcome to The Adventure, Cantata Singers’ 49 season, a season honoring David Hoose’s Kay Patterson-Shaw, Chorus President thirtieth anniversary as Music Director. This year is a joyous and pivotal time for us, as James Liu, Chorus Vice President we celebrate David this year, look to our fiftieth anniversary in 2013-14, and continue to plan for and dream about the next fifty years of this organization. BOARD OF TRUSTEES CANTATA SINGERS COUNCIL David J. Cooper, Treasurer Robert Amory This year is also my inaugural season as Executive Director at Cantata Singers. During David Griesinger John and Diana Appleton my first few months at the helm, I had the opportunity to sit down with members of the Robert Henry David Berman Cantata Singers family and hear firsthand the stories of our history, impact, and values. Charles W. Husbands Blair and Carol Brown Kathryn Kravitz The consistent thread through these many conversations was the profound and far- Julian and Marion Bullitt Mary MacDonald reaching impact that David Hoose has had on this organization, and on the cultural life Richard M. Burnes, Jr. Emily Walsh Martin of this city. A local composer told me how Cantata Singers—through David’s work— Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Marcia Nizzari defined concert culture in our city, and raved that our performance of Stravinsky’s Les Dr. Edmund B. Cabot Dwight E. Porter Nancy and Laury Coolidge Noces was one of the best concerts he has ever attended. A well-known soloist spoke of Ann Ellen Rutherford Elizabeth D. Hodder our commitment to music and social justice through our Slavery Documents commissions, Daniel D. Scharfman, Secretary Peter Libby and Beryl Benacerraf and the electricity that night in a packed Symphony Hall. A longtime concertgoer Epp K. J. Sonin Ann Marie Lindquist and Robert Weisskoff Mary Beth Stevens, Chair confided that— to his surprise—through Cantata Singers, he learned to appreciate Donald J. Lindsay Christine Swistro Schoenberg’s music alongside the music of Bach. David S. MacNeill Dana Whiteside Peter Owens Majie Zeller Sheila Perry I simply cannot think of a better way to be introduced to Cantata Singers than Harold I. Pratt celebrating and remembering the scores of artistic adventures we have had under the HONORARY TRUSTEE Robert O. Preyer baton of David Hoose these past thirty years. John Harbison Frank Reitter David Rockefeller, Jr. Our 2012-2013 season is yet another example of David’s signature approach to ADMINISTRATION John R. Scullin programming: bold yet sensitive, and rife with unexpected affinities. I look forward to Jennifer Ritvo Hughes, Executive Director Joseph L. Solomon enjoying yet another year of musical adventures together. Sara Libenson, General Manager Elizabeth H. Wilson Robert Pape, Development Director Josh Taylor, Education Coordinator All my best, Luellen Best, Personnel Manager Joan Ellersick, Orchestra Contractor Jennifer Ritvo Hughes We gratefully acknowledge our funders and partners for the 2012-2013 season. Cantata Singers 729 Boylston Street, Suite 305 Boston, MA 02116 tel: 617.868.5885 www.cantatasingers.org 2 3 49TH SEASON THE ADVENTURE Programming’s Potential David Hoose, Music Director I think the heart of any musician’s—or any organization’s—personality lies in the This season marks David Hoose’s thirtieth year as Music Director of Cantata Singers. At the time programming. Not just what music you choose to perform, but how you put those concerts he became the ensemble’s sixth music director, he had already appeared as its guest conductor together. Every music director is given the curatorial gift of searching for the threads three times and, before that, had often performed with the ensemble as a horn player. Under his and sometimes unexpected affinities, of throwing old chestnuts into fresh light, and of musical leadership, Cantata Singers has renewed its commitment to the music of J.S. Bach and, at exploring music, new and old, not being performed elsewhere. This is a joyful—and the same time, has broadened its repertoire to embrace music from the seventeenth to the twenty- necessary—responsibility, perhaps the most important one a music director can perform. first century. He has led the ensemble in numerous Boston and world premieres both of older, I think easy programming isn’t necessary, the overture-concerto-symphony program may unknown music and of new music, including twelve choral-orchestral works that Cantata Singers commissioned. During his tenure, Cantata Singers has initiated a separate vocal chamber series, have exhausted much of its power, and obvious thematic programming is too facile to with its own music director, and has developed an innovative public school education program, with affect us deeply. But, concerts that risk uncovering intuitive, subtle links (and even rifts) its own director, that focuses on the creation of original musical compositions. between composers and their music, all within the live concert experience—a lot of people gathered together to take in some of the most beautiful and profound thought—may have With Cantata Singers, Mr. Hoose was recipient of the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for real impact. Adventurous Programming, and because of his work with this and other ensembles, he was given both the Choral Arts New England’s 2008 Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2005 Alice M. Ditson Conductors Award for the Advancement of American Music. He was also This Cantata Singers season, my thirtieth with the organization, reflects the possibility of a recipient of the Dmitri Mitropoulos Award at the Berkshire (Tanglewood) Music Center, and as that impact. Adventurous programming that has always been at the heart of Cantata Singers’ a founding member of the Emmanuel Wind Quintet, was co-recipient of the Walter W. Naumburg life, from its earliest days of Bach and all Bach, when the composer was deeply admired and Chamber Music Award. His recording of John Harbison’s Mottetti di Montale, with Collage New seldom heard. As Cantata Singers’ musical horizons have broadened—reaching now from Music, was a Grammy Nominee for Best Recording with Small Ensemble. His recordings appear on seventeenth century music to the most recent, from iconic masterpieces to music