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Iestyn Davies purcell & nyman: music after a while : (1944- ): Asako Morikawa No Time in Eternity (2016) treble Emily Ashton treble viol (1659-1695): Joanna Levine Fantazy No. 7 in C minor (1680) tenor viol Fantazy No. 11 in G major (1680) Sam Stadlen bass viol Music for a while Richard Boothby bass viol Nyman: Music after a While (2018)

Purcell: The Evening Hymn

interval presented in collaboration with music on main’s modulus festival Nyman: Balancing the books (1999)

with the support of If (1995) Why (1995)

Purcell: generously supported by Fantazy No. 6 in F major (1680) Tony & Margie Knox and Fantazy upon one note (1680) Ron Kruschen & Louise Akuzawa

Pre-concert chat at 6:45: Nyman: Iestyn Davies The Self-Laudatory Hymn of Innanna and her Omnipotence (1992) and Paolo Pietropaolo

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imitated, particularly by composers for moving images – film, TV, adverts and so on; yet these are pale imitations, not the real thing.

While he might be known now more for the music he wrote for Jane Campion’s award-winning film from 1993, , he initially shot to fame a decade earlier with the music for Peter Greenaway’s film The Draughtsman’s Contract, set in 17th-century England. This lurid tale was filmed with striking originality, and Nyman mirrored this with his music, most of it derived from one of England’s greatest composers, Henry Purcell. Purcell’s music was well known to Nyman, as he had Michael Nyman studied under the great musicologist Thurston Dart at King’s College in London in the 1960s, and had then produced the first modern edition of Purcell’s Catches in 1967. Is there a contemporary composer whose music is more immediately recognisable than Michael Nyman? I can’t So it was a natural choice to combine Nyman and Purcell think of one: the insistent ostinati, the bold, yet simply on this disc. Purcell never composed vocal music with an conceived harmony, the driving rhythms, the aggressive accompaniment of , but his magnificent set of Fantazias instrumentation, the heavy bass-line; all have combined to and In Nomines for viols demonstrated his interest in the make his music instantly recognisable. He has been endlessly instrument; so it was but a short step to realising Purcell’s original bass line and completing the harmonies with parts for four or five viols. While all three on this disc are on ground basses – that is the same bass line repeated over and over again – each song presented different challenges. THANK YOU TO O Solitude is a setting of the first and last stanzas (plus half of the third) of the poem La Solitude by Antoine Girard de OUR VOLUNTEERS! Saint-Amant, translated by Katherine Philips, who was a remarkable literary figure in 17th-century Wales and England. EMV’s activities are made possible through the generous It’s ground bass is unvarying, yet Purcell’s implied harmonies assistance of many volunteers who offer their time. We would like to thank the following: are exceptionally inventive. Pam Atniko, Leslie Bauming, Richard Cameron, The Evening Hymn is a setting of the poem by Bishop William Alexandra Charlton, Catherine Crouch, Bill Dovhey, Fuller, friend of the diarists Pepys and Evelyn. The arrangement Sandy Dowling, Susan Edwards, Helen Elfert, Beverly for viols was made by Silas Wolston. The sound bass here Ferguson, Elizabeth Ferguson, Nel Finberg, Jean-Pierre moves to accommodate modulations to different keys, as Fougères, Gail Franko, Stanley Greenspoon, Satoko does that of Music for a While, which is from the incidental Hashigasako, Delma Hemming, Margaret Hendren, music to Dryden and Lee’s translation of Sophocles’ play Murray Hendren, Michiko Higgins, Maggie Holland, Oedipus, revived in 1692. Alecto is one of the Greek furies, Gene Homel, Richard Huber, Gigi Huxley, Nancy Illman, Gretchen Ingram, Ron Jobe, Gerald Joe, Susan Kaufman, with snakes for hair, whose work is to castigate mortals for Martin Knowles, Barb Knox, Susan Larkin, Pat Lim, Cindy their moral crimes. Ma, Christina MacLeod, Wanda Madokoro, Kathryn In 2017, Fretwork commissioned Michael Nyman (with McMullen, Vania Mello, Robert Middleton-Hope, Carole Nakonechny, Tom Nesbit, Sharon Newman, Veronika funds generously donated by Mark Reed) to write a new Ong, Gina Page, Betty Lou Phillips, Jessica Pereversoff, instrumental work for them, and he responded with Music Melanie Ross, Selma Savage, Joey Schibild, Traudi After a While, which is based upon Purcell’s song, or more Schneider, Jill Schroder, Eleanor Third, Sharron Wilson. particularly upon its strikingly original bass-line, with its insidious rising chromatics. It was premiered in Milton Court, Interested in joining our volunteer corps? in London’s in May 2018, just before this disc Phone 604.732.1610 for details. was recorded.

4  Early Music Vancouver 2019 | 2020 Purcell & Nyman: Music after a While [email protected] We had previously commissioned Nyman in 1992 to write a verse is ‘To the Virgins to make much of time’, espousing the work for James Bowman and us for the Spitalfields Festival. sentiment to seize the day, or carpe diem; and we see similar Nyman described the remarkable chance encounter that led sentiments in these epigrammatical works that Nyman has to the choice of text: chosen to set. He was highly sensitive to music and a close The text of the Self-Laudatory Hymn came to light while friend of the Lawes brothers, Henry & William. I was browsing among the bookshelves of an Armenian Michael Nyman was born in Stratford, in the east end of acquaintance in February 1992. Opening, for no apparent London on 23rd March 1944. In addition to his current work reason, a fat anthology entitled Ancient Near-Eastern as a composer, he is also a film maker, conductor, pianist, Texts Relating to the Old Testament, edited by James B. musicologist, writer & photographer. He studied at the Royal Pritchard, I found S N Kramer’s translation of this Hymn. I Academy of Music and, after his Ph.D. studies with Thurston was immediately taken with its tone of unashamed self- Dart, he went to Romania to collect folk music. congratulation (very suitable, I thought, for James Bowman’s voice) and its repetitive structure (very suitable for my music). While working as music critic for The Spectator, he coined the term ‘minimalism’ in 1968. He also wrote for The New In conversation with another friend I learned that Inanna was Statesman, The Listener and Studio International. He seminal not an obscure goddess known only to me and a few experts work on new music – Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond – on Sumerian civilisation, but a central focus of that civilisation was published in 1974 and has recently been reprinted. and a figure highly esteemed by feminists. In Kramer’s works: ‘Female deities were worshipped and adored all His preferred musical form is opera, and he has written several though Sumerian history…but the goddess who outweighed, notable works in this form: The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a overshadowed, and outlasted them all was a deity know to Hat, Facing Goya and Many and Boy: Dada. the Sumerians by the name of Inanna, ‘Queen of Heaven’, More recently he has focused on composing soundtracks for and to the Semites who lived in Sumer by the name of Ishtar. silent films from the late 1920s: Jean Vigo’s A Propos de Nice, Inanna played a greater role in myth, epic, and hymn that any Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and new soundtracks other deity, male or female.’ for three Dziga Vertov films- Man with a Movie Camera, The In the Self-Laudatory Hymn I have made no attempt to Eleventh Year and A Sixth Part of the World. evoke Sumerian music (or music of any other period). The – Richard Boothby opportunity to work with the viols of Fretwork recalls my use of early instruments in the first Michael Nyman Band, which uses rebecs rather than viols; and also my studies in the 1960s with Thurston Dart (and his memorable Musica Britannica edition of Jacobean consort music) and the finest book ever written on English music, English Chamber Music OF INTEREST: by E H Meyer. Some time during the 2000s, I came across Nyman’s song ROY BARNETT HALL, UBC MUSIC If, scored for piano and strings and thought it could work for 6361 Memorial Road, UBC campus viols – I made an arrangement and sent it to the composer, who approved. The calm simplicity of the harmonic pattern Friday 15 November at 12:00 noon and melody makes for a compelling work, which expresses & Monday 18 November at 7:30 pm the child-like naïveté of the text. It was written, together with EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLES Why, to texts by Roger Pulvers as part of an animated film by featuring the Seiya Araki, The Diary of Anne Frank. EMV/UBC Baroque Membership Orchestra And then, having seen my arrangement, Nyman suggested I — free admission — look at a work he had written for the Swingle Singers, Balancing the Books, a wordless vocal work in 8 parts. I arranged this, COACH HOUSE, GREEN COLLEGE but we didn’t find an opportunity to perform it until we were 6201 Cecil Green Park Rd, UBC campus invited to take part in the Minimalism Unwrapped festival at Kings Place in London inn 2015. Historically-informed performance practices from Non-Western-European traditions. No Time in Eternity was commissioned by the French counter- tenor Paulin Bündgen with Ensemble Celadon in 2016 and Generously supported by Chris Guzy and Mari Csemi. first performed by them in Lyon in March of that year. It is a Thursday 21 November at 5:00 pm: setting of several poems by the great 17th-century poet Robert Qiu Xia He Herrick: To Music, No Time in Eternity, Fortune, The Definition Pipa teacher, performer, composer and music producer of Beauty, Things mortal still mutable, The Watch, To Music. All — free admission — are from his Hesperides, published in 1648. His most famous earlymusic.bc.ca Purcell & Nyman: Music after a While Early Music Vancouver 2019 | 2020  5 the artists

Iestyn Davies They made their Carnegie Hall debut in February of 2010, and now tour the United States most years. After graduating from St John’s College, Cambridge, Iestyn Davies In that year, they also curated a week-long concert series of concerts studied at the , London. at Kings Place. The culmination of this week was the world premiere In 2017 Iestyn received an Olivier Award nomination for singing the of ‘The World Encompassed’ by Orlando Gough, a 70-minute piece role of in Farinelli and the King opposite , a describing in musical terms Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe Globe Theatre production that had successful runs on the West End in 1577-80. and Broadway. In 2011, The National Centre for Early Music, in collaboration with On the opera stage he has appeared at the , Covent the BBC, hosted a competition for young composers to create a four- Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, , La minute piece for Fretwork. They workshopped the shortlisted pieces Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Chicago Lyric at the NCEM in York in October, and then the winning entries were Opera and in Munich, Vienna and Zurich. Recent highlights include premiered in Kings Place in December 2011. returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper for Ottone/, Terry/ The following year, they premiered ‘My Days’ for The Hilliard Marnie at the Metropolitan Opera and Polinesso/Ariodante at the Ensemble & Fretwork by one of today’s most exciting young Lyric Opera of Chicago. This season he reprises the role of Ottone/ composers - Nico Muhly - in Wigmore Hall; while 2013 was their Agrippina at the Royal Opera House and at the Metropolitan Opera. busiest year for a decade: they played no fewer than ten concerts Celebrated on the concert platform, he has performed at La Scala, in London’s major chamber music halls: Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Tonhalle in Zurich, Théâtre des Cadogan Hall & the Royal College of Music. Champs-Élysées in Paris, at the Barbican in London and Lincoln In 2014 they concentrated on the music of with a major Centre New York. Recent highlights include concerts with William tour of the UK with one of today’s greatest tenors: Ian Bostridge. Christie / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Labadie / Les They also spent a week in the Britten Studio in Aldeburgh re-working Violons du Roy and the Handel & Haydn Society, Jonathan Cohen Orlando Gough’s ‘The World Encompassed’, to incorporate a spoken / at the BBC Proms and a tour with the . narrative drawn from contemporary accounts. This season he joins / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Bucharest for Orfeo ed Euridice, / New ‘Slow: an ” by Nico Muhly was premiered in 2015 at York Philharmonic for Messiah and he joins Emmanuel Haim / NDR Kings Place in London, and they collaborated with celebrated actor Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for a series of concerts of the St. John Simon Callow in the revised version of The World Encompassed and Passion at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. recorded it for Signum Classics. A committed recitalist, with repertoire ranges from Dowland to They celebrated their 30th anniversary with a star-studded Clapton, he is a regular guest at Carnegie Hall, New York and enjoys a concert at Kings Place in June of 2016; and recorded four new successful relationship with both the Wigmore Hall and Saffron Hall albums, including The World Encompassed, and later that year where he has curated residencies. At the start of the season, Iestyn they made their longest tour of America, taking in the USA, Canada celebrated his 40th birthday with a special concert at the Wigmore & Colombia. Hall, where he was presented their prestigious Gold Medal. In 2018 they performed and recorded a programme celebrating the Iestyn has twice been awarded the Gramophone Recital Award, and music of Michael Nyman - who was 75 in 2019 - with the exceptional in 2017 won the Gramophone Baroque Vocal Award for his Bach counter-tenor, Iestyn Davies; and in 2019 they tour North America Cantatas disc with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen. In 2017 Iestyn with this programme. was awarded an MBE for his services to music. Also in 2019, they begin a series of concerts at Wigmore Hall presenting the greatest English consort music from the Golden Age Fretwork - six concerts ranging from Cornyshe to Purcell. Their recordings with Signum Classics has resulted in several notable In 2016, Fretwork celebrated its 30th anniversary. In these last three releases: The World Encompassed, Four Part Fantasies, decades, they have explored the core repertory of great English If (with Iestyn Davies) & In Chains of Gold: ’ consort music, from Taverner to Purcell, and made classic recordings consort anthems. In 2019 a further two discs will be released: The against which others are judged. Silken Tent, with Clare Wilkinson, including the music of Debussy, In addition to this, Fretwork have become known as pioneers Grieg, Byrd, Purcell, Nyman, Goehr, Wolf, Britten, Shostakovich and of contemporary music for viols, having commissioned over 40 Stephen Wilkinson; and then In Nomine II, concluding a survey of new works. The list of composers is like the roll call of the most English In Nomines started with their first released disc in 1987, prominent writers of our time: George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, including Nico Muhly’s ‘Slow’ and music by Ferrabosco, Bull, Tye, Sir , Gavin Bryars, Elvis Costello, Alexander Goehr, John Baldwin, Parsons and Purcell. Woolrich, Orlando Gough, Fabrice Fitch, , Sally 2020 will see further releases on Signum, Schütz’s Auferstehungs- Beamish, , Barry Guy, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, historia with at Wigmore Hall, two further visits Simon Bainbridge, Poul Ruders, John Joubert, Duncan Druce & Nico to Wigmore Hall in its ‘Musick’s Recreation’ series, an extended Muhly. European tour, Dartington International Summer School again, and The group now frequently presents programmes consisting entirely the world premiere of a new work written for them by John Paul of contemporary music. Jones, bassist/keyboardist with Led Zeppelin.

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Michael Nyman Henry Purcell No Time in Eternity Fantazy No. 7 in C minor

1. Fantazy No. 11 in G major To Music Music for a while Begin to Charm, and as thou strok’st mine ears With thy enchantment, melt me into tears. Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Then let thy active hand scud o’er thy lyre. Wond’ring how your pains were eas’d And make my spirits frantic with fire. And disdaining to be pleas’d That done, sink down into a silvery strain, Till Alecto free the dead And make me smooth as balm and oil again. From their eternal bands, Till the snakes drop from her head, 2. And the whip from out her hands. No Time in Eternity By hours we all live here; in Heaven is known No spring of time or time’s succession. Nyman Music after a While 3. Fortune Fortune’s a blind profuse of her own, Purcell Too much she gives to some enough to none. The Evening Hymn

4. Now, now that the sun hath veil’d his light The Definition of Beauty And bid the world good night To the soft bed, my body I dispose, Beauty no other thing is than a beam But where, where shall my soul repose? Flashed out between the middle and extreme. Dear God, even in Thy arms, And can there be any so sweet security! 5. Things mortal still mutable Then-to-thy-rest, O my soul And singing, praise the mercy that pro longs thy days. Things are uncertain and the more we get, Hallelujah! The more on icy pavements we are set.

6. The Watch interval Man is a watch wound up at first, but never Wound up again: once down he’s down for ever. The watch once down, all motions then do cease; And man’s pulse stopp’d, all passions sleep in peace.

7. To Music (ii) Recordings Music, thou queen of heaven, care-charming spell, That srik’st a stillness into hell: will be for sale Thou that tam’st tigers, and fierce storms that rise, With thy soul-melting lullabies, Fall down from those chiming spheres in the lobby tonight. To charm our souls as thou enchant’st our ears. earlymusic.bc.ca Purcell & Nyman: Music after a While Early Music Vancouver 2019 | 2020  7 Nyman Purcell Balancing the books Fantazy No. 6 in F major Fantazy upon one note If

If at the sound of a wish, the summer sun would shine, Nyman And if just a smile would do to brush all the clouds The Self-Laudatory Hymn form the sky. of Innanna and her Omnipotence If at the blink of an eye the autumn leaves would fall; And if you could sigh a deep sigh to scatter them My father gave me Heaven, gave me earth. over the earth, I the Queen of Heaven am I. I’d blink my eyes and wave my arm, Is there one God who can vie with me? I’d wish a wish to stop all harm. Enlil gave me Heaven, gave me earth, I the Queen of Heaven am I. If at the wave of a hand the winter snows would start And if you could just light a candle to change people’s He has given me lordship, feelings and hearts, He has given me queenship. I’d whisper love in every land, He has given me battle, given me combat To every child, woman and man; And he gave me flood and tempest. That’s what I’d do if my wishes come true. He has placed Heaven as a crown. – Roger Pulvers He has tied the earth as a sandal. He has fastened the holy me garment Why About my body. The Gods are my vassals: We ask our father why, I, a Queen am I. Why people cannot love, The Anuna scurry about. Why people hate all day and night, Spoiling children’s dreams. I, a life-giving wild cow am I, The life-giving wild cow of father Enlil am I, We ask our mother why, His life-giving wild cow that walks at the head. Why people cannot live, When I enter the Ekur, the house of Enlil, Why they won’t let the children be, Crushing their belief. The gate-keeper puts not his hand against my breast, The vizier says not to me: stop! Tell us why, Papa, your children want to know: Heaven is mine, earth is mine. “Some day you’ll find out” Leave us lonely and cold. In Erech, the Eanna is mine, Tell us why, Mama, your children want to know: In Zabalom, the Giguna is mine. “You shouldn’t ask such things” In Nippur, the Duranki is mine, Leaves us no room to grow. In Ur, the Edilman is mine. We ask our parents why, In Girsu the Eshdam is mine, Why children cannot grow. In Adab, the Emdara is mine. Don’t look away from us, Don’t lie, please don’t lie, In Kish, the Hursag Kalama is mine, Your children need to know. In Dev, the Amashkuga is mine. Tell me why, somebody, In Akshak, the Anzaka is mine, We children need an answer In Agada, the Ulmash is mine. Why adults fight over God, Is there one god who can vie with me? Why adults fight over colour, Why adults go to war. – Roger Pulvers

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These listings include donations received prior to July 15 * A Special Thank-You to our Loyal Long-Time Donors The names in these listings which are marked with an asterisk [*] indicate donors who have supported Early Music Vancouver annually for five years or more. Their loyal and ongoing generosity has been especially valued, and has helped ensure that we can plan our annual projects & seasons with confidence and with a solid sense of security. Thank you!

early music vancouver | endowment fund donors

We also gratefully acknowledhe the select group of donors that, in addition to their annual donations, has generously contributed to Early Music Vancouver’s Endowment Fund – which is administered by the Vancouver Foundation, and which currently stands at over 1.8 million dollars. Interest from this Fund will continue to support our performances & activities in perpetuity.  ($100,000+): The Drance Family Early Music Vancouver Fund.  ($20,000+): Vic & Joan Baker | Ralph Spitzer & Hisako Kurotaki | José Verstappen | Two Anonymous Donors.  ($5,000+): A donation in memory of Tom Blom | Frank & Helen Elfert | Marianne Gibson | The Nemetz Foundation | Dr Katherine E Paton | Marcia Sipes | A donation in memory of Peter Wood.  ($ 2,500+): T he RPC Family Foundation | Maurice & Tama Copithorne | Heather Franklyn | Tony & Margie Knox | James C. & Wendy Russell | Anona Thorne & Takao Tanabe.  ($1,000+): A donation in memory of Mrs Betty Drance | Patrick Gilligan-Hackett | Dorothy Jantzen | Ottie Lockey & Eve Zaremba | Susanne Lloyd | Greg Louis | Glenys McDonald | Dr Robert S Rothwell | Karen Shuster | Zelie & Vincent Tan | Lorna Weir | Four Anonymous Donors.  (up to $1,000): Evelyn Anderson | Alan & Elizabeth Bell | Meo Beo | Jeffrey Black & Mary Chapman | L & C Bosman | A donation in memory of C Y Chiu | Mary Christopher | Gillian & Mike Collins | A donation in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs | Judith Davis | Jane Flick & Robert Heidbreder | Dr Val Geddes | Margot Guthrie | Mark Halpern | Linda Johnston | Peter Kwok | Elizabeth Lamberton | Rob Mayhew | Janette McMillan & Douglas Graves | Benjamin Milne | Alberto Mondani | Alfred & Jennifer Muma | Barbara Murray | Judith & Greg Phanidis | Connie Piper | Pam Ratner & Joy Johnson | Joan Rike | Elfriede & Peter Rohloff | David Ryeburn | Jo & Bob Tharalson | John Tulip | James Walsh | Fran Watters | Glenys Webster & Paul Luchkow | Five Anonymous Donors. earlymusic.bc.ca Purcell & Nyman: Music after a While Early Music Vancouver 2019 | 2020  9