April 27, 2018 April 28, 2018 April 29, 2018 St. Noel Church Lakewood Congregational Church Plymouth Church UCC LET THE HEAVENS REJOICE! Concert de Simphonies (1730) – Jacques Aubert (1689–1753) Ouverture – Menuets – Gigues Sarabande – Tambourins – Chaconne In convertendo – Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) Récit: In convertendo (Owen McIntosh) Choeur: Tunc repletum est gaudio Duo: Magnificavit Dominus (Elena Mullins, Jeffrey Strauss) Récit: Converte Domine captivitatem nostram (Strauss) Choeur dialogué: Laudate nomen Dei (Sarah Coffman) Trio: Qui seminant in lacrimis (McIntosh, Mullins, Strauss) Choeur: Euntes ibant et flebant INTERMISSION Conserva me (1756) – Louis-Antoine Lefebvre (1700–1763) Owen McIntosh, tenor Salve Regina à trois choeurs and basse continue – Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) Quire Cleveland Venite exultemus (1743) – Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville (1711–1772) Récit et choeur: Venite exultemus (Mullins, Coffman) Récit: Quoniam Deus Magnus Dominus (Strauss) Récit: Quoniam ipsius est mare (Strauss) Récit: Venite adoremus (Mullins) Récit: Quia ipse est Dominus (Mullins) Récit et choeur: Hodie si vocem (Coffman) Récit: Sicut in exacerbatione (McIntosh) Récit: Quadraginta annis proximus fui (McIntosh) Duo et choeur: Gloria patri (Coffman, Mullins) Quire Cleveland (Ross Duffin, Artistic Director) Les Délices (Debra Nagy, Artistic Director) Scott Metcalfe, Guest Conductor
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In the decade following the death Louis XIV (France’s cultural and political titan), and with no clear successor to Jean-Baptiste Lully (the great composer of tragédie lyrique), enthusiasm for French opera was faltering. At the same time, the long-forbidden Italian music was rising in prominence/popularity. Furthermore, with Louis XIV out of the picture, the rising haute bourgeoisie of cosmopolitan, modern Paris – and not courtiers at Versailles – were setting trends and spending money on entertainment.
It was in this context that Paris’ first concert seriesLe Concert Spirituel was created in 1725. But since businesses had to be registered with the government, the series had to comply with (or find loopholes in) restrictions imposed by state-sanctioned monopolies (such as the Opéra). As a result, performances by the Concert Spirituel were limited to when the opera and other important theaters were closed, which left about 30 eligible days per year (such as the three weeks of Lent, Pentecost, All Saints, Christmas, and all the festivals of the Virgin). The series’ director Anne Danican Philidor was likewise forbidden to produce concerts including music sung in French. While these might seem like steep limitations, Philidor seized the opportunity to present non-French-language, non-secular rep and to privilege new music of all sorts, particularly Italian music.
As this 1754 concert poster demonstrates, the series’ concerts might open with a new “Symphonie” for orchestra followed by a resplendent Motet à grand choeur (including trumpets, drums, and horns). The central part of the program would feature stars from the opera, visiting foreigners, or a child prodigy in various solos before concluding with another Motet for large forces.
Our program tonight is clearly modeled on the Concert Spirituel, spotlighting rarely- heard Motets à grand choeur (Grand Motets) In convertendo by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville’s Venite Exultemus. We open our program with a Concert de Simphonie by violinist Jacques Aubert (who also served as Concert Spirituel concertmaster through the 1730s), feature a gorgeous 11-voice Salve Regina by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and present tenor Owen McIntosh in the modern- premiere of Louis-Antoine Lefebvre’s Conserva me.
Though based on psalm texts, Grand Motets had no important liturgical function. In fact, during the reign of “Sun King” Louis XIV (that absolutist monarch who sought to blur the line between man and God–whether Greek or Christian), Grand Motets were performed at Low Masses. Many of these works had the ultimate intent of celebrating the King. Like the operas and ballets that also resulted from Louis XIV’s patronage, Grand Motets were extravagant in their colorful orchestration and word painting, powerful (with their 5-part Grand choeur performing both complex fugues and strong, homophonic choruses), and musically varied (composed in multiple sections, including récits for virtuoso solo singers). Best known as a composer of opera, Rameau wrote In convertendo as an early sacred masterpiece that anticipates the sensitive orchestration and brilliant energy of his later dramatic works. In fact, Rameau didn’t break into the opera world before he was 50; the first part of his career was spent as a church musician.In convertendo is thought to have been composed during his time as organist in Lyon (1713–15) or perhaps in Clermont-Ferrand (1715–1722), but was later reworked for performances at the Concert Sprirituel in 1751. In convertendo is remarkable for its intimate, haunting opening, the exciting bass solo depicting flowing streams (or are they gushing rapids?) with the text sicut torrens in austro, and the Italianate trio Qui seminant in lacrimis, whose unison orchestral ritornelli recall Vivaldi.
When In convertendo was heard for the first time in Paris in 1751, the solorécits would have been performed by virtuosi from the opera or the court. Vocal soloists were also sometimes featured in petit motets. In the case of Louis-Antoine Lefebvre’s Conserva me, the published score memorializes not only the premiere performances in March of 1755 but also its soloist, Mr. Godard, a star tenor at the Opéra Comique in both Paris and Vienna who also created the title role in Rameau’s Pygmalion (1752). Louis-Antoine Lefebvre (1700–1763) was organist at Paris’s Royal church of St. Louis-en-l’Isle. One of several motets that Lefebvre tailor-made for Godard, Conserva me’s delicate opening récit recalls the intimate introduction to Rameau’s In convertendo. The brilliant aria that follows Laudabo salvatorem is a show- stopper full of fabulous coloratura for a world-class soloist.
Though hardly a household name today, Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville (1711–1772) was a violin virtuoso, conductor, and composer who stood on par with Jean-Philippe Rameau. He made his celebrated Paris debut in 1733, and published his first set of violin sonatas the following year. Mondonville enjoyed a court appointment as violinist to both the Royal chamber and the chapel, and was associated with the Concert Spirituel from 1748 (he became director in 1755). He was a proponent of new music, an experimental composer, and his Grand Motets enjoyed incredible popularity. In fact, Mondonville was the composer most frequently played at the Concert Spirituel (39 different works were performed totaling 510 performances); Venite Exultemus enjoyed over 60 performances alone in 20 years. With powerful choruses, deft and brilliant writing for violins, flutes, and oboes, and complete with both intimate and effusive solos, we do hope that you’ll agree with Mercure de France’s 1752 remarks, “The work Venite exultemus, which brought the concert to a close, provided the crowning point for the audience.”
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Scott Metcalfe (guest conductor) is musical and artistic director of Blue Heron, acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables,” and music director of New York City’s Green Mountain Project (Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director), whose performances of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers and other 17th-century music have been hailed by the New York Times as “quite simply terrific.” He is a frequent guest director of TENET (New York) in repertoire ranging from Machaut and Du Fay through Purcell and Bach, and he has been guest conductor of the Handel & Haydn Society (Boston), Emmanuel Music (Boston), the Tudor Choir and Seattle Baroque, Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Vancouver, BC), Quire Cleveland, the Dryden Ensemble (Princeton, NJ), and Early Music America’s Young Performers Festival Ensemble.
Owen McIntosh. Acclaimed as a “lovely, tender high tenor” by the New York Times, Owen McIntosh enjoys a diverse career of chamber music and solo performance ranging from bluegrass to reggae, heavy metal to art song, and opera to oratorio. A native of remote Northern California, Mr. McIntosh has enjoyed sharing the stage with the country’s finest ensembles including Apollo’s Fire, Blue Heron, Boston Baroque, Carmel Bach Festival, Les Canards Chantants, New Vintage Baroque, Quire Cleveland, Staunton Music Festival, TENET, Trident Ensemble, True Concord, San Diego Bach Collegium, and the GRAMMY® nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street.
Jeffrey Strauss, baritone, an “authoritative artist” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) whose performances have been praised as “captivating”(Chicago Tribune) and “serenely beautiful” (New York Times), has appeared with period-instrument ensembles including The Consort of Musicke with Emma Kirkby, the Taverner Consort under Andrew Parrott, Tafelmusik, Apollo’s Fire, Handel & Haydn Society (Boston), The Newberry Consort (Chicago), Seattle Baroque, Tempesta di Mare (Philadelphia), and Quire Cleveland. An accomplished stage actor, Mr. Strauss’s favorite projects have included the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Jesus in the Bach Passions, Méphistophélès in Berlioz’ Damnation of Faust, and Apollo in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne. His CD recordings with Apollo’s Fire include Monteverdi’s Vespers and Handel’s Messiah, as well as Sephardic Journey.
Elena Mullins, soprano, has wide-ranging interests in the field of early music. She has sung with The Newberry Consort, Apollo’s Fire, Three Notch’d Road, Generation Harmonique, and Quire Cleveland, and is the director of Early Music Singers at Case Western Reserve University. She takes a scholarly interest in the performance practices of early repertoires, reaching back as far as the twelfth century. In 2013, Ms. Mullins co-founded Alkemie, an ensemble specializing in medieval music for voices and instruments, which was in residence at Fairmont State University (Fairmont, WV) in 2016–17. She holds a DMA in Historical Performance Practice from CWRU and a BA in Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music. An avid teacher of baroque dance, piano, and voice, she fills her spare time cooking with friends and bouldering at the neighborhood climbing gym.
Soprano Sarah Coffman is pursuing a Master of Arts in Historical Performance Practice at Case Western Reserve University. In 2016, she graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she studied voice with Steven Spears. Recent musical activities include a 2016 Voice Apprenticeship at Berkshire Choral International, premiering a new work at SPLICE Electroacoustic Music Festival, and singing in Amherst Early Music Festival’s Ensemble Singing Intensive. Currently, Ms. Coffman sings with Quire Cleveland and the choirs at Trinity Cathedral, as well as several early music ensembles at Case. Act one begins
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2018 is the tenth anniversary of the Cleveland/Rouen, France sister-city relationship. The French-American Chamber of Commerce and Maison Française are pleased to have Les Délices and Quire Cleveland join us on Sunday, April 29 with the performance and post-concert reception as the opening events of the year-long celebration .
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Magister ($2,500+) Western Reserve Chorale Drs. Ross W. Duffin & Beverly Simmons, David Gilson, Artistic Director Ann Levin, John McElliott, Gerald P. 26th Concert Season 2017-18 Weinstein An American Tapestry Two Colonial Songs by Dan Forrest Cantus ($1,000–$2,499) Settings of Shenandoah and Dixie Selections from Anonymous, Arthur V. N. Brooks, Thompson's Frostiana and Janet Curry & Richard Rodda, Ursula Copland's Old American Songs
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OCT 4, 6–7, 2018 | Mozart in Paris Offers audiences a new perspective on the famous composer with this program for oboe, strings, and fortepiano featuring acclaimed American fortepianist Sylvia Berry. Accompanied by readings from Mozart’s humorous letters, Les Délices creates a context for Mozart’s time in the City of Light by setting his works alongside those composers whose music was all the rage.
DEC 21–23, 2018 | Charpentier’s Midnight Mass Presented in collaboration with Quire Cleveland, Charpentier’s Midnight Mass offers contemplative and celebratory music for the Christmas Season with broad appeal. A beautiful and enriching alternative to holiday classics like Handel’s Messiah, this program features over twenty singers and instrumentalists under the direction of guest conductor Eric Milnes.
JAN 18–20, 2019 | Leuven Songbook Les Délices brings Medieval music to vivid life for audiences with this multimedia program featuring projected images from a recently-discovered 15th-century songbook. Produced in collaboration with renowned Chicago-based ensemble, the Newberry Consort.
APR 5–7, 2019 | The Elements Les Délices completes their 10th Anniversary with ground-breaking music from the 18th and 21st centuries that depicts the chaos of creation and the four elements of water, fire, earth, and wind. The program pairs Les Délices’ own arrangement of Jean-Féry Rebel’s The Elements with a newly commissioned, nature-inspired work for period instruments by young composer Theo Chandler.
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Jacques Aubert: Concert de Simphonies
Ouverture – Menuets – Gigues
Sarabande – Tambourins
Jean-Philippe Rameau: In convertendo
— INTERMISSION —
Aubert: Concert de Simphonies
Chaconne
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Salve Regina
Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville: Venite Exsultemus
Owen McIntosh is unable to perform due to illness. We are very pleased to welcome tenor Philippe Gagné for today’s performance.
TENOR PHILIPPE GAGNÉ has received critical acclaim for his depth of expression, refined musical sensitivity, rare vocal agility, and singular beauty of tone. While his performing career embraces the singing of all periods of music, he has a particular affinity and innate talent in Baroque repertoire. Recent appearances with some of the world’s leading ensembles include his work as featured soloist with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Arion Baroque Orchestra, L’Harmonie des Saisons, and many others. Highlights for 2018 include his return to Belgium for a recording under the CPO label of Graupner cantatas with Ex Tempore (Florian Heyerick, director). Philippe will also join Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset, director) in Paris and Oslo for a magnificent production dedicated to sacred works by Rameau and Campra.