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La Contenance Angloise: Nathaniel Lanasa, Conducting Apprentice CERDDORION ERDD ORION SOPRANOS ALTOS TENORS BASSES C VOCAL ENSEMBLE Kate Ashby Susan Glass Michael Klitsch John Dennison Judith Cobb Linnea Johnson Jeff Lunden Ian McGullam Bonny Hart Myrna Nachman Steve Parkey Dean Rainey Amy Litt Nora Ryan Eddie Rubeiz Dale Rejtmar Kristina Boerger Cathy Markoff Melissa Tombro Chris Ryan Tom Samiljan Artistic Director Ellen Schorr Kristina Vaskys Marty Silverberg Larry Sutter PRESENTS Wendy See Gretta Wren Jeff Thomas Michael Weinstein- Reiman La Contenance Angloise: Nathaniel LaNasa, Conducting Apprentice For further information about Cerddorion, A Millennium of English please visit our website: www.cerddorion.net. Choral Music Support Cerddorion Ticket sales cover only a small portion of our ongoing musical and administrative expenses. If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, please send a check (payable to Cerddorion NYC, Inc.) to: Cerddorion NYC, Inc. Post Office Box 946, Village Station New York, NY 10014-0946 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sunday, November 9, 2008—4 P.M. Saturday, November 15, 2008—8 P.M. Chair Tim Hutfilz Directors Christopher Caines Oratory Church of St. Boniface St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church President Steve Parkey Michael Klitsch 11 Willoughby St. 87th Street and West End Avenue Treasurer Jeff Thomas Amy Litt Brooklyn, New York New York, New York Vice President Judith Cobb Cathy Markoff Vice President Eddie Rubeiz Secretary Chris Ryan The Baroque Master La Contenance Angloise Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry? Henry Purcell (1659–1695) Tapissier, Carmen, Cesaris Tapissier, Carmen, Cesaris Na pas longtemps si bien chanterrent not long ago sang so well Quilz esbahirent tout paris that they astonished all Paris Pause Et tous ceulx qui les frequenterrent; and all who came to hear them. Mais oncques jour ne deschanterrent But the day came when they did not discant English Music Revived En melodie de tels chois – such finely wrought melody – There is Sweet Music Edward Elgar Ce mont dit qui les hanterrent – so those who heard them told me – Chorus prepared by Nathaniel LaNasa, (1857–1934) Que G. Du Fay et Binchois. as G. Dufay or Binchois. Conducting Apprentice Car ilz ont nouvelle pratique For these have a new practice De faire frisque concordance of making a lively consonance Vox Populi En haulte et en basse musique both in loud and soft music, Linden Lea Ralph Vaughan Williams En fainte, en pause, et en muance. in feigning, in rests, and in mutations. (1872–1958) Et ont prins de la contenance They took on the guise Angloise et ensuy Dunstable of the English and follow Dunstable Pour quoy merveilleuse plaisance and thereby a marvelous pleasingness I Love My Love Gustav Holst Rend leur chant joyeux et notable. makes their music joyous and remarkable. (1874–1934) —Martin Le Franc, 1442 The Three Ravens E. T. Chapman Soloist: Dean Rainey, 11/09 (1902–1981) John Dennison, 11/15 The Program Pause Spanning the Medieval The Modern Giant Alleluia: Dominus dixit Sarum chant Hymn to Saint Cecilia Benjamin Britten Kate Ashby, soprano (1913–1976) Sumer is icumen in Anonymous, 13th c. Wendy See, soprano Judith Cobb, alto Quam pulchra es John Dunstable Eddie Rubeiz, tenor Jeff Lunden, Eddie Rubeiz, Chris Ryan (ca. 1390–1453) John Dennison, bass In the Favor of the Queen Audivi vocem de caelo Thomas Tallis (1505–1585) Ne irascaris Domine/Civitas sancti tui William Byrd (1543–1623) CERDDORION Program Notes NOW IN ITS FOURTEENTH SEASON, CERDDORION is one of New York’s most highly regarded volunteer choral ensembles. A chamber group of 28 mixed voices, it is known for its eclectic repertoire, encompassing a range of styles from the ancient to the contemporary. Audiences have come to appreciate the group’s interpretive depth and technical excellence in many styles. Besides presenting its own varied programs, Cerddorion has performed with other acclaimed artists. Past collaborations include: the North American premiere of Sir John Tavener’s all-night vigil, The Veil of the Temple, performed at Avery Fisher Hall (with the Dessoff Choral Consortium Welcome to a concert tracing the development of English choral music from ancient liturgical and choristers from London’s Temple Church); appearances with the Christopher Caines Dance chant through the Modernism of Benjamin Britten. In earlier ages, England’s separation from Company; and opera performances with the early-music instrumental ensemble Concert Royal. the Continent sometimes retarded her adoption of the latest musical fashions. For example, the In 2006, Cerddorion presented at the Eastern Divisional Convention of the American Choral part-song craze that throughout the 16th century supported so many composers and music Directors Association three works commissioned for the group’s tenth anniversary season. publishers in Italy and France did not catch on in England until the 1588 publication by Nicholas September 2007 marked the release of the first commercial recording featuring Cerddorion: A Yonge of Musica Transalpina: Italian Madrigals English’d. On the other hand, the geographical, reli- Handful of World (on the Tzadik label) is dedicated to vocal works by New York composer Lisa gious, and political singularity of England supported the emergence and development of several Bielawa and includes Cerddorion’s performance of Bielawa’s Lamentations for a City, which was distinctive contributions to the Western canon. And as one might expect, northern France often commissioned and premiered by Cerddorion in 2004. And the CD To Every Thing There Is a served as a point of stylistic transference between Britain and the rest of the Continent. Season, an anthology of compositions and arrangements by Yumiko Matsuoka, featuring the women of Cerddorion on “Skye Boat Song,” was released just a month ago. Our program begins with selections from two of the most significant houses of worship in Medieval England. The plainsong Alleluia: Dominus dixit comes from the Missa in gallicantu, which is the first Mass of Christmas from the Sarum Rite. Sarum chant is a unique body of Kristina Boerger liturgical plainsong developed at Salisbury Cathedral and fully separate from the Roman Rite that An accomplished singer, conductor, and choral arranger, Kristina Boerger received her formative was in more general use, not only on the Continent but also as brought to England by Frankish musical training from pianist Annie Sherter and holds the doctorate in Choral Conducting and monks. Gradually, the Sarum use prevailed over the Roman liturgy throughout the British Isles, Literature from the University of Illinois. She lectures in music history at Barnard College and even influencing the Anglican liturgy as this took shape in the 16th century. The origins of the teaches choral conducting at the Manhattan School of Music. Sarum Rite are attributed to Saint Osmund of Normandy, who, upon his appointment in 1078 as first bishop of Salisbury, combined local Norman liturgical traditions with Anglo-Saxon variants Selected as the 2008 Outstanding Choral Director of the Year by the New York State chapter of of the Roman Rite. In fact, a comparison of the Sarum liturgy with that of the cathedral in the American Choral Directors Association, Dr. Boerger is in her ninth season as Artistic Rouen yields strong similarities between the two. In general, the Sarum Rite is more elaborate Director of Manhattan's Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble, with which group she has commissioned than the Roman, often involving as many as four ministers—priest, deacon, subdeacon, and works from several New York composers. Having served for two years as Music Director of acolyte—and the procession to and censing of all altars in the sanctuary. New York's AMUSE, she was recently appointed Associate Conductor of the Collegiate Chorale. Dr. Boerger has appeared as guest conductor of the Chicago Children's Choir, the Kalamazoo Present-day visitors to Salisbury Cathedral, one of the towering architectural achievements of Bach Festival, the University of Illinois Chamber Singers, and the Schola Cantorum of Syracuse, England, will find it situated in the town also known as New Sarum and now serving an among others. She has also served as guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician in several U.S. Anglican, not a Catholic, diocese. The building was consecrated in 1258 as the relocation of the cities, in Quebec City, and in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Her work in the 1990s as founding original settlement of Salisbury, some two miles north, in Old Sarum. It is in this latter hill-fort director of AMASONG: Champaign-Urbana’s Premier Lesbian/Feminist Chorus, is the subject town, originally populated at least as early as 3000 B.C., where one may visit the ruins of the of the documentary film The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out, which after touring festivals in the cathedral built for Osmund’s bishopric. United States and worldwide has enjoyed repeated broadcast on PBS. As a singer in a variety of styles, she has appeared on stage and on disc with the King’s Noyse, Rocky Maffit, the Tallis Scholars, Early Music New York, Vox Vocal Ensemble, Bobby McFerrin, Alarm Will Sound, and Urban Bush Women. She is a member of the acclaimed early- music ensemble Pomerium and of the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble. Our second offering comes from Reading Abbey, which was established in 1121 by King Henry The song’s Middle English text celebrates the coming of the warmer seasons. Its creator is I and settled by an order of monks from Cluny. Reading’s first abbot was Hugh of Amiens, later anonymous, and although the music sounds like a folk song, it may also be one learned appointed archbishop of Rouen. Because of its royal patronage, Reading became a favored musician’s representation—in a surpassingly complex form—of local folk traditions. The melody pilgrimage site and one of the most significant and opulent religious houses. A Reading is written out once, with instructions in Latin for performing it in canon (round); a four-part manuscript from about 1250 is the source of the beloved rota (“round”) Sumer is icumen in.
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