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! 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),