Miller Theatre's Early Music Series Continues with England's TALLIS SCHOLARS, Dec

Miller Theatre's Early Music series continues with England's TALLIS SCHOLARS, Dec. 14 11/13/19, 350 PM

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“one of the U.K.’s greatest cultural exports” — BBC Radio 3

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts

continues its 2019-2020 Early Music series with

Tallis Scholars

Sacred Interpretations

Saturday, December 14, 2019, 8:00 p.m. Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 West 46th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues)

Tickets starting at $40; Students with valid ID: starting at $7

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Early Music December 14, 2019, 8:00 p.m. Church of St. Mary the Virgin 145 West 46th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues Tallis Scholars Sacred Interpretations

For twenty years, the venerable Tallis Scholars have made a much-anticipated annual appearance in New York City to perform on Miller Theatre's Early Music series. This year's program explores the ways in which composers from different eras and backgrounds reacted to the same seminal texts; it includes multiple settings of Ave Maria, Salve Regina, Magnificat, and O sacrum convivium, alongside Allegri’s exquisite Miserere.

The Tallis Scholars just released a new album on Gimell Records, which features Josquin's Missa Mater Patris and Bauldeweyn's Missa Da pacem. This is the eighth of nine albums in the Tallis Scholars' project to record all of Josquin's masses.

Program:

Salve Regina Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla Salve Regina Francis Poulenc Salve Regina William Cornysh Salve Regina

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Ave Maria William Cornysh Ave Maria Francis Poulenc Ave Maria (a 10, arr. Jeremy White)

Miserere Gregorio Allegri Miserere Giovanni Croce Miserere

O sacrum convivium Thomas Tallis O sacrum convivium Olivier Messiaen O sacrum convivium

Magnificat William Byrd Short Magnificat Tomás Luis de Victoria Magnificat for double choir

Artists: Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips, director

Tallis Scholars thetallisscholars.co.uk

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serve the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which the Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.

The Tallis Scholars perform in both sacred and secular venues, usually giving around 70 concerts each year across the globe. In 2013, the group celebrated their 40th anniversary with a world tour performing 99 events in 80 venues in 16 countries and traveling sufficient air-miles to circumnavigate the globe four times. They kicked off the year with a spectacular concert in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, including a performance of Thomas

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Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in alium and the world premieres of works written especially for them by Gabriel Jackson and Eric Whitacre. Their recording of the Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas by John Taverner was released on the exact anniversary of their first concert in 1973 and enjoyed six weeks at number one in the U.K. Specialist Classical Album Chart. On September 21, 2015, the group gave their 2000th concert at St. John's Smith Square in London.

Recordings by the Tallis Scholars have attracted many awards throughout the world. In 1987, their recording of Josquin's Missa La sol fa re mi and Missa Pange lingua received Gramophone magazine's Record of the Year award, the first recording of early music ever to win this coveted award. In 1989, the French magazine Diapason gave two of its Diapason d'Or de l'Année awards for the recordings of a mass and motets by Lassus and Josquin's two masses based on the chanson L'Homme armé. Their recording of Palestrina's Missa Assumpta est Maria and Missa Sicut lilium was awarded Gramophone's Early Music Award in 1991; they received the 1994 Early Music Award for their recording of music by Cipriano de Rore; and the same distinction again in 2005 for their disc of music by John Browne.

The Tallis Scholars were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2001, 2009, and 2010. In 2012, their recording of Josquin's Missa De beata virgine and Missa Ave maris stella received a Diapason d’Or de l’Année and in their 40th anniversary year, they were welcomed into the Gramophone ‘Hall of Fame' by public vote. In a departure for the group, The Tallis Scholars released, in spring 2015, a disc of music by Arvo Pärt called Tintinnabuli which has received praise across the board. The latest recording of Josquin masses Missa Di dadi and Missa Une mousse de Biscaye was released in 2016.

Peter Phillips thetallisscholars.co.uk/peter-phillips

Peter Phillips has dedicated his career to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony, and to the perfecting of choral sound. Having won a scholarship to Oxford in 1972, he gained experience as an undergraduate in conducting small vocal ensembles, already experimenting with the rarer parts of the repertoire. He founded the Tallis Scholars in 1973, with whom he has now appeared in over 2,200 concerts and made over 60 discs, encouraging interest in polyphony all over the world. As a result of this commitment, Phillips and the Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music.

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Phillips also conducts other specialist ensembles. He is currently working with the BBC Singers, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur. He is a patron of the choirs of Merton College (Oxford), Sansara (London), El Leon de Oro (Spain), and of the Festivals of Portsmouth and Clifton; he also hosts the annual Tallis Scholars Summer Course in Avila (Spain). In 2014, he launched the London International A Cappella Choir Competition in St. John’s Smith Square, attracting choirs from all over the world.

In addition to conducting, Phillips is well-known as a writer. For 33 years, he contributed a regular music column (as well as one, more briefly, on cricket) to The Spectator. In 1995, he became the owner and publisher of The Musical Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in the world. His first book, English Sacred Music 1549-1649, was published by Gimell in 1991, while his second, What We Really Do, appeared in 2013. In 2018, BBC Radio 3 broadcast his view of Renaissance polyphony, in a series of six, hour- long programs.

In 2005, Phillips was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, a decoration that honors individuals who have contributed to the understanding of French culture in the world. In 2008, Peter began an association with Merton College, Oxford, where he helped to found the chapel choir and where he is a Bodley Fellow.

Miller Theatre millertheatre.com

Miller Theatre at Columbia University is the leading presenter of new music in New York City and one of the most vital forces nationwide for innovative programming. In partnership with Columbia University School of the Arts, Miller is dedicated to producing and presenting unique events, with a focus on contemporary and early music, jazz, opera, and multimedia performances. Founded in 1988, Miller Theatre has helped launch the careers of myriad composers and ensembles over the years, serving as an incubator for emerging artists and a champion of those not yet well known in the United States. A four- time recipient of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming, Miller Theatre continues to meet the high expectations set forth by its founders—to present innovative programs, support the development of new work, and connect creative artists with adventurous audiences.

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Miller Theatre 's 2019-20 Season is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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