! S A C R E D M U S I C I N A S A C R E D S P A C E ! ! Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 6:00pm! Digital Concert Series! ! Christ and St. Luke’s Church! 560 West Olney Road! Norfolk, Virginia! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Leonardo da Vinci (1452-!1519), Annunciation (1475)! ! S T E P H E N C O X E! A N D F R I E N D S! ! Camerata Choristers! Shelly Milam, soprano | Kathryn Kelly, alto | Scott! M. Crissman, tenor | Stephen Coxe, bass! Anna Feucht,! soprano! Scott M. Crissman,! tenor! Anna Leverenz,! horn! Johnathan Spence,! violin! S A C R E D M U S I C I N A S A C R E D S P A C E ! ! Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 6:00pm! Digital Concert! Series! Christ and St. Luke’s Church! 560 West Olney Road! Norfolk,! Virginia! ! ! O Radiant Dawn (2007)! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! James MacMillan! !Antiphon for December 21! !!!!!!!(b. 1959)! ! ! The Angel Gabriel (2020)! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Stephen Coxe! Sabine Baring-Gould!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (b. 1966)! ! ! Chorale from Cantata 122 “Das neugeborne Kindelein” (1724)! ! ! ! J. S. Bach! !Cyriakus Schneegaß!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (1685-1750)! ! ! Camerata Choristers! Shelly Milam, soprano! Kathryn Kelly, alto! Scott M. Crissman, tenor! Stephen Coxe,! bass! ! ! Lilium floruit (2002)! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Stephen Coxe! !Plainchant, Notre Dame (12th Century)! ! Anna Feucht, soprano !- Stephen Coxe, piano! ! ! ! Des pas sur la neige [Footsteps in the Snow] - Préludes, Livre I (1910)!! ! Claude Debussy! !!!!!!!!!!!(1862-1918)! !Bruyères [Moorlands] - Préludes, Livre II (1913)! ! ! Stephen Coxe, piano ! ! ! Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain, Op. 55 (1954)! ! ! ! ! ! Benjamin Britten! !Edith Sitwel! !!!!!!!!!(1913-1976)! ! Scott M. Crissman, tenor! Anna Leverenz, horn! Stephen Coxe,! piano! ! ! ! ! Sonate posthume (1897, pub. 1975)! ! ! ! ! ! ! Maurice Ravel! !!!!!!!!!!!!(1875-1937)! ! Johnathan Spence, violin! Stephen Coxe,! piano! ! ! ! ! ! This Endris Night!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! arr. Ralph !! 15th Century!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Vaughan Williams! !!!!!!!!!!!!(1872-1958)! ! Camerata Choristers! Shelly Milam, soprano! Kathryn Kelly, alto! Scott M. Crissman, tenor! Stephen Coxe,! bass! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Christ and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church! The Reverend Canon Win Lewis, Rector! Kevin Kwan, Organist and Director of Music! Marjorie Setnicky, Assistant! Director of Music! Tonight’s program was made possible, in part, by! generous contributors to the Friends of Music! MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn !Antiphon for December 21! O Radiant Dawn,! Splendour of Eternal Light,! Sun of Justice:! come, shine on those who dwell in darkness! !and the shadow of death.! Isaiah had prophesied,! “The people who walked in darkness! have seen a great light;! upon those who dwell in the land of gloom! !a light has shone.”! !Amen.! ! ! Coxe, The Angel Gabriel !Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924)! The angel Gabriel from heaven came,! His wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame:! “All hail,” said he, “thou lowly maiden Mary,! Most highly favored lady.”! !Gloria!! ! ! Bach, Chorale from Cantata 122 “Das neugeborne Kindelein” !Cyriakus Schneegaß (1546-1597)! 1 Das neugeborne Kindelein,!! ! The newborn baby,! Das herzeliebe Jesulein!! ! ! the heart-loved little Jesus! Bringt abermal ein neues Jahr!! ! brings again a new year! Der auserwählten Christenschar.!! to the chosen Christian flock.! !!!! 2 Das freuen sich die Engelein,!! ! The little angels rejoice in this,! Die gerne um und bei uns sein,!! ! who gladly are with us and around us,! Sie singen in den Lüften frei,!! ! they sing freely in the air,! !Daß Gott mit uns versöhnet sei.!! God is reconciled with us.! 4 Es bringt das rechte Jubeljahr,!! The true year of celebration comes,! Was trauern wir denn immerdar?!! why then should we continue to mourn?! Frisch auf! itzt ist es Singenszeit,!! Revive! Now is the time for singing,! Das Jesulein wendt alles Leid.!! ! the little Jesus turns aside all suffering.! !!!!!!!! ! ! ! Coxe, Lilium floruit !Plainchant, Notre Dame (12th Century)! ! Lilium floruit arvis vernantibus !! ! ! A lily has blossomed in the verdant fields of! que fons de Libano lymphis rigantibus !! ! the fountains of Lebanon, its cleansing ! !relevat zephyris flautibus. !! ! ! ! waters refreshing with its fragrant breezes.! Eia, eia, eia grex in pascuis !! ! ! ! Go - the flock plays in the fertile pastures,! alludat uberimis et sequantur agmina !! ! the crowd follows the lamb among the lillies,! agnum inter lilia qui factus est opilio !! ! who having become a shepherd, and having assumed! assumpto carnis pallio et per crucis misterium !! the flesh, and by the mysterious cross has crushed! !elisit fauces demonum ferens reis remedium.!! the jaw of the demon, bringing remedy to us all.! Revisit thalamum sponsi presentia !! ! ! The bridegroom returns to the bridal chamber, ! qui super cherubim mira potentia !! ! ! he, who with wondrous power, flew above the ! !volavit praevidens cuncta latentia.!! ! ! cherubim, forseeing all hidden things.! !Eia, eia …!! ! ! ! ! ! ! Go …! Electri species tandem emicuit !! ! ! The splendor of amber has burst forth,! et mare vitreum de Sion exiit !! ! ! ! and the glittering sea has flowed from Zion:! !anguis teterrimus nunc iam interiit.!! ! ! the foul serpent has now been cast out.! !Eia, eia …!! ! ! ! ! ! ! Go …! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Unknown artist, Annunciation to the Shepherds (ca. 1345) Britten, Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain Edith Sitwel (1887-1964)! !from The Canticle of the Rose (1948)! ! Still Falls the Rain! !(The Raids, 1940. Night and Dawn)! The poem, with reading, may be found on the website:! !https://poetryarchive.org/poem/still-falls-rain/! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Herbert Mason (1903-1964): St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, December 30, 1940 ! ! ! This Endris Night !15th Century! 1 This endris night I saw a sight,!! ! ! ! A star as bright as day;! And ever among, a maiden sung,! !‘Lullay, by, by, lullay.’ ! 3 ‘My sweetest bird, thus ’tis required,!! ! ! ! Though thou be king veray;!! ! ! ! ! But nevertheless I will not cease!! ! ! ! !To sing, By, by, lullay.’!! ! ! ! ! ! 5 ‘For angels bright down to me light:! Thou knowest ’tis no nay:! And for that sight thou may’st delight! !To sing, By, by, lullay.’! STEPHEN COXE received degrees from Swarthmore College (BA) and Yale University (MM, DMA), where his principal teachers in music composition were Gerald Levinson, Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, and Ezra Laderman. He has received an Aaron Copland Award, ASCAP Award, Belgian-American Educational Foundation Fellowship, Composers Guild Award, Friends and Enemies of New Music Prize, and grants from the Argosy Foundation and Meet the Composer, among others. Stephen has received commissions and premieres from many ensembles and organizations, and has had works performed in a variety of venues, among them Weill Recital Hall, Columbia University Miller Theatre, Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Juilliard School, St. Peter’s Church (New York City), Wigmore Hall (London), New England Conservatory, Longy School, San Francisco Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, Amherst College, Chamber Fest Cleveland, and the Eric Carle Children’s Museum for the Visual Arts. He has collaborated on new works with oboist Mark Hill, french hornist Stephen Stirling (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields), accordionist Merima Ključo, percussionists Greg Beyer, Tony Steve, Cameron Britt, and Ian Rosenbaum, cellists Thomas Kraines and Natasha Brofsky, the Post-Haste Reed Duo, the Weilerstein Trio, the Peabody Trio, Sequitur, and Musician's Accord, among many others. Stephen is an Adjunct Associate Professor in music theory and composition at Old Dominion University, and he is Artistic Director of Instrumental Music at the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts. In the summer months he is a composer in residence and faculty member at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Vermont. At Yellow Barn, he directs a program for young composers that has resulted in the premieres of over 150 new works since its inception in 2005. Guest faculty composers in that program, among them three Pulitzer Prize winners, have included Sebastian Currier, Howard Frazin, Aaron Jay Kernis, Amy Beth Kirsten, Fred Lerdahl, David Ludwig, Steven Mackey, Eric Nathan, Eric Sawyer, Caroline Shaw, Lewis Spratlan, Christopher Theofanidis, and Melinda Wagner. Stephen has had new works performed by the Norfolk Chamber Consort, the Virginia Chorale, The Choir of Christ and St. Luke’s, Virginia Children’s Chorus, and Schola Cantorum, and he has performed with those organizations. He has also performed as a member of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, and he has been on the faculty of the Torggler Summer Vocal Institute at Christopher Newport University. As a conductor, he led the regional premieres of two seminal twentieth century orchestral works, with the combined orchestras of East Carolina University and the Governor’s School for the Arts: György Ligeti’s Atmosphères and !Krzysztof Penderecki’s Anaklasis.! ! Tenor SCOTT M. CRISSMAN holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Christopher Newport University. In 2012 and 2014, he was awarded singing fellowships for the Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop at the Yale Summer School of Music / Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Norfolk, Conn.) under the direction of Simon Carrington. He has previously sung with the Virginia Arts Festival (most recently as part of the John Duffy Institute for New Opera's world premiere production of Kristin Kuster's KEPT: a ghost story and in performances of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms for the composer's centenary), Virginia Opera, the Virginia Chorale, the Washington Master Chorale, and the Norfolk Chamber Consort. He sings professionally with the Church Circle Singers (Annapolis, Md.), the Schola Cantorum of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Richmond), and the Piedmont Singers of Central Virginia (Hampden Sydney, Va.). Mr. Crissman is a professional member of the music ministry at Christ & St. Luke's Church in Norfolk, works in the International Program at Hampton Roads Academy, and as a !freelance graphic designer.! ! ANNA FEUCHT is a soprano who has garnered praise for her "exciting coloratura" and "exceptionally beautiful and powerful sound," with "notes that soar towards the ceiling." She is a frequent soloist with Virginia Opera and Tidewater Opera Initiative. Roles performed include Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, Romilda in Serse, Mme Herz in Der !Schauspieldirektor, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.! She has often appeared as a soloist with orchestra, most recently as the soprano soloist in Poulenc's Gloria with the Virginia Symphony, and in Verdi's Requiem with Symphonicity. She appeared as the soprano soloist in Elijah with the Williamsburg Choral Guild. She has also made repeated appearances with the Ocala Symphony Orchestra and many !others as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah.! Anna obtained her Master of Music degree from the University of Florida, and her Bachelor of Music from Christopher Newport University. She lives in Norfolk with her dog Wednesday. KATHRYN KELLY has been hailed for her “voluptuous” voice and “comic timing worthy of Carol Burnett”. Past engagements include Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Monica (The Medium), the title role in The Snow Maiden of Appalachia, Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Dorabella (Cosi fan Tutte), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Despina (Cosi fan Tutte) and as a Professional Artist at SongFest in Los Angeles. A dedicated performer of both operatic and art song repertoire, Kathryn was awarded first place in Cantabile Project's premiere season auditions, and frequently appears as a recitalist throughout Hampton Roads. She is a former Spectrum Resident Artist with Virginia Opera, and is a regular performer and soloist with the Virginia Chorale. She has performed in the choruses of Virginia Opera, Opera New Jersey, and the !Rome Festival, and she received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from Westminster Choir College. ! ! ANNA LEVERENZ is a horn player and vocalist for the U.S. Army. She has performed with Army Bands throughout the United States and Europe, including notable performances at the 2019 International Women’s Brass Conference, at Wembley Stadium in London, and at the 2016 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. She was selected as the 2017 Army Bands Junior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year and currently holds the rank of Staff Sergeant. She earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in horn performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Masters of Music from Illinois State University, and a Bachelors of Music from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. In addition to her performances as an Army musician, Anna performs as the alto soloist with Christ and !St. Luke’s Church in Norfolk, Virginia, and as a member of the Virginia Symphony Chorus.! ! SHELLY MILAM is the Vocal Music Department Chair at the Governor’s School for the Arts, where she also teaches Voice, Opera Workshop, and French and German Diction. Outside of GSA, Shelly has worked with various regional companies such as Tidewater Opera Initiative, Virginia Opera, Opera Roanoke, Virginia Arts Festival, and Virginia Chorale. She has performed the operatic roles of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Rose Maurrant in Street Scene, the title role in Suor Angelica, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and the musical theater roles of Rapunzel in Into the Woods, Rosa Bud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Anna (cover) in The King and I. She has directed productions of Dido and Aeneas, Die Schauspieldirektor, and Hansel !und Gretel, and has also conducted Die Zauberflöte. She lives in Chesapeake with her husband and three daughters. ! ! JOHNATHAN SPENCE received his Doctorate of Music in Violin and Viola under the tutelage of Hagai Shaham at Stony Brook University in 2017. He is also a graduate of East Carolina University, where he studied with Ara Gregorian. Focusing on his passion for teaching, he has returned to his hometown where he is bringing his pedagogical methods to the Hampton Roads area. He performed his solo debut with the Governor's School for the Arts in 2007 at Boston Symphony Hall. Johnathan participates in the Next Generation Series of the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, in which students selected for the program receive multiple opportunities to play side-by-side with world renowned artists. He continues to play and perform in various chamber music festivals across the country, as well as !bringing music to the community through a variety of outreach programs for public and private schools alike. ! ! ! ! !