Monteverdi and the Glory of Venice

David Fallis, conductor Charles Daniels, tenor University of Toronto Schola Cantorum Choristers from the Theatre of Early Music

Sunday, March 10, 2019 7:30 pm Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue

The Historical Performance area concerts are made possible in part by a generous gift from Ethel Harris.

This concert made possible in part by a generous gift from Jean Patterson Edwards.

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land. PROGRAM

Monteverdi and the Glory of Venice

O Jesu mea vita Dixit Dominus Kayla Ruiz, Emily Zixin Wang, Sinéad White, Annie Bird, Ian Sabourin, Arieh Sacke, Nick Veltmeyer, Jonathan Wong, Wes Hui, soloists Christe adoramus te Cantate Domino Laudate Dominum Charles Daniels, soloist Sanctus & Agnus Dei from Messa a quattro voci Beatus vir

Intermission

Si ch’io vorrei morire Kayla Ruiz, Rachel Allen, Ian Sabourin, Arieh Sacke, Wes Hui, soloists Zefiro torna e’l bel tempo rimena Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti Charles Daniels, Nick Veltmeyer, soloists Act I and final scene from Orfeo Pastore II: Josh Clemenger Pastor I: Arieh Sacke Ninfa: Rachel Allen Euridice: Loren Graziano Orfeo: Charles Daniels Pastore III: Ryan McDonald & Ian Sabourin Pastore IV: David Walsh Pastore V: Matthew Li Apollo: Nick Veltmeyer ARTISTS

David Fallis, conductor CHORISTERS FROM THE THEATRE OF EARLY MUSIC SCHOLA CANTORUM Sopranos: Sopranos: Lindsay McIntyre Rachel Allen Carrie Loring Saige Carlson Altos: Alex Caroll Daniel Taylor Anna Julia David Peter Mahon Loren Graziano Simon Honeyman Roanna Kitchen Michaela O’Connor Bass: Nikki Puchkov Keith Lam Kayla Ruiz Nevalea Tkachuk ORCHESTRA Emily Wang Jeanne Lamon, violin I Sinéad White Kailey Richards, violin II Matthew Antal, viola I Altos: Jimin Shin, viola II Annie Bird Felix Deak, viola da gamba Rina Khan Joel Tangjerd, cello Ryan McDonald Juliane Bruckmann, violone Danielle Nicholson Chris Bagan, organ Kurtis Ny Adrian Ross, harpsichord Ian Sabourin Lousie Hung, harpsichord Erica Simone Lucas Harris, theorbo Tenors: Jonathan Stuchbery, theorbo Josh Clemenger Arieh Sacke Jacob Thomas Nick Veltmeyer David Walsh Basses: Alex Halliday Wesley Hui Adam Kuiak Matthew Li Jonathan Wong Burak Yamen BIOGRAPHIES

a vocal ensemble specializing in contemporary choral music. He has recently accepted a two-year appointment as conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, and this season he directs the MacMillan Singers at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.

Photo credit: Paul Orenstein For the Luminato Festival in Toronto, David Fallis he conducted Murray Schafer’s David Fallis is a Canadian music-theatre epic Apocalypsis at conductor and music director the Sony Centre in 2015, and was renowned for his work in both early the Music Director for the world and contemporary music. He has premiere of R. Murray Schafer’s conducted for the Royal Opera The Children’s Crusade, also at the House in Versailles, the Luminato Luminato Festival. He has been the Festival, the Glimmerglass historical music producer for two Festival, the Singapore Festival, acclaimed TV series, The Tudors Festival Vancouver, Houston and The Borgias. He lives in Toronto Grand Opera, the Seoul Arts with his wife Alison Mackay. Centre, Cleveland Opera, Wolftrap Theater, Utah Opera, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, and in major opera houses in Japan. As Music Director of Toronto’s Opera Atelier he has led critically-acclaimed productions of operas by Mozart, Handel, Rameau, Weber, Lully and Monteverdi in Toronto, Photo credit: Annelies van der Vegt France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United States. Charles Daniels From 1990-2018 he was Artistic The tenor Charles Daniels is best Director of the Toronto Consort, known as an interpreter of Baroque Canada’s leading chamber group music, but his narrative gifts have specializing in the music of the been praised for music as diverse as Middle Ages and Renaissance. Machaut Virelais from the 1360s and With the Consort he toured Graham Treacher’s Divine Madness extensively in Canada, the US and (2016). He was born in Salisbury and Europe, and led the ensemble in studied at King’s College Cambridge their numerous recordings. He and under Edward Brooks at the directs Soundtreams Choir 21, Royal College of Music. His extensive discography includes PROGRAM NOTE Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with the Bach-Stiftung, Monteverdi L’Orfeo The Glory of Monteverdi with Andrew Parrott, Handel Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is Messiah and Schütz’ Christmas rightly considered one of the most Story with the Gabrieli Consort, influential and innovative composers Wojciech Kilar’s Missa Pro Pace of all time. Born in the late with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Renaissance, he was at the forefront much Purcell and Bach, and of the dramatic musical changes more intimate discs such as Senfl that ushered in the Baroque era Tenorlied with Fretwork, Heracleitus of music. He was equally at home with the Bridge Quartet, Lambert in the worlds of sacred music, airs with Fred Jacobs. chamber music (especially vocal Recent concert appearances chamber music) and theatre music include Lawes songs with Les of all kinds: opera, ballet and Voix Humaines in Utrecht, St intermezzo. Tonight’s program has Matthew Passion semi-staged been chosen to reflect some of this in the York Early Music Festival, incredible variety. Handel Chandos Anthems in their We begin each half with related original setting of the Canons Estate pieces. O Jesu mea vita is a church, domestic music of Bach for sacred contrafactum made with the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging, Monteverdi’s blessing of his erotic previously unheard Vivaldi in madrigal Si ch’io vorrei morire. Venice with La Serenissima and Following O Jesu mea vita, two the Academy of Ancient Music’s of his larger psalm settings, both radical look at Purcell King Arthur. of which would have been used He is delighted to collaborate in Vespers services at San Marco frequently with Canadian musicians in Venice, frame the remainder of and besides these concerts, the first half, replete with dramatic future projects include the St effects, solo voices and instrumental Matthew Passion in Halifax N.S. accompaniment. The first half, all and a tour of an ornithologically sacred, also includes some of his themed programme with Les Voix shorter motets, and two movements Humaines. from the serene Messa a quatro voci, which shows he could write Charles’ completion of Purcell’s in renaissance style with equal Ode Arise my Muse was ease and beauty. performed in Montreal in 2009 and his reconstructions of In the second half, all secular, Gesualdo’s Sacrae Cantiones we present another of two his à6 have been performed in madrigals with the theme of Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw. He “spring is here, why doesn’t my is married with two daughters and heart go dancing?”, including is an avid cyclist. the famous duet Zefiro torna, which created a fascination with something from his extraordinary the ground bass known as the operas. We present the first Act ciaccona that would last for over and final scene from Orfeo, written a hundred years. (Even Mozart in 1607, but as fresh and daring writes pieces called ciaccona!) today as it was then. And no evening of Monteverdi’s music would be complete without David Fallis

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