University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Music Department Concert Programs Music 2-17-1999 Music of the Renaissance Department of Music, University of Richmond Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/all-music-programs Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Department of Music, University of Richmond, "Music of the Renaissance" (1999). Music Department Concert Programs. 171. https://scholarship.richmond.edu/all-music-programs/171 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Music Department Concert Programs by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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Valderrabano, c. 1500 Josquin des Prez Crucifixus (c. 1440-1521) Et Resurrexit Benedictus Plenisunt Agnus Dei Mr. Maginley 3 Fresche erbette Sigismundo D'India Su, su prendi (1582-1629) Ms. Cable, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Maginley, Mr. Elfenbein It.> Zefiro toma Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Ms. Cable, Mr. Riehl, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Maginley, Mr. Elfenbein 1r E la morte di marito Perissone Cambio (fl. 1540-1550) Ms. Cable, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Riehl, Mr. Smith, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Maginley, Mr. Elfenbein 1'J-An cor che col partire Cipriano da Rore (1515116-1565) Ms. Cable, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Riehl, Mr. Smith Ancor che col partire (instrumental) Mr. Merrill, Mr. Maginley, Mr. Elfenbein Festivities for the Marriage of Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, in 1539 ~~ Lieta per honorate Mattio Rampollini (c. 1497-c. 1553) 14 Non men'ch'ogn'altra Baccio Moschini (d. 1552) 5 Vattene Almo riposo Pier Francesco Corteccia Bacco, bacco (1502-1571) (Text for the final two by Giovan Battista Strozzi) Ms. Cable, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Riehl, Ms. Smith, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Maginley, Mr. Elfenbein r:'5pecia.I'J£a.n£s lo 9ene 'Jlnderson 'lJawdB1ngerje!i Yred Cohen 2JiflBu.hrs 2Jonny J£a.f/ r:Suzanne !)(ie£/ '}J(ary :fenninys Jfomer !)(ucfofj G£arles /lo.hnson :J?ichard Waller Jennifer Cable has performed through­ which introduces opera to schools and out the United States and Europe in solo communities throughout the Common­ repertoire ranging from the Renaissance wealth. through the 20th Century. In addition She made her professional debut with to opera and oratorio, Cable has sung Portland Opera (Oregon) in Offenbach's with many chamber music ensembles, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and has also including Tragicomedia, Musica Nova, sung the roles of Hansel in the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, the Richmond Chamber Players and Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Currents. She is a founding member and Mother Marie in Poulenc's Dialogues of regular artist with Affetti Musicali, an the Carmelites. early music ensemble well known to Richmond audiences, and has made sev­ Concert work includes solo work with eral solo appearances with the Rich­ the Rochester Oratorio Society, Roch­ mond Symphony Orchestra. Under­ ester Philharmonic Orchestra, the graduate study at Oberlin College was Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, followed by the Eastman School of the Eastman School Symphony and the Music for her Master of Music and Doc­ University of Richmond Orchestra and tor of Musical Arts. Cable was also Choirs. She has presented recitals in the awarded Performer's Certificates in both Richmond area, including performances Opera and Vocal Performance from the at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She Eastman School of Music. She has at­ teaches voice at the University of Rich­ tended the Aspen Music Festival, the mond, where she performs regularly Akademie fur Alte Musik in Bremen, with the voice faculty quartet; in addi­ Germany, the International Institute for tion, she is on faculty with the Virginia Chamber Music in Munich, the Commonwealth University Community Aldeburgh Festival and the Britten­ School for Performing Arts. She has Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, studied with Marcia Baldwin, Meredith and the Franz Schubert Institute in Zara, Ethel Armeling, and Ellen Faull. Vienna. She is currently studying voice with Marlena Malas in New York City A graduate of Michigan State Univer­ and serves on the faculty of the Univer­ sity, she earned the Master of Music sity of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. degree in Vocal Performance and Lit­ She has recorded for Word Records and erature from the Eastman School of the Contemporary Record Society. Music, where she also earned the Performer's Certificate in Voice. Suzanne Stevens, mezzo-soprano, has sung to critical acclaim around the coun­ Jeffrey Riehl, a native of central PA, is try. Her operatic credits include the role Assistant Professor of Music at the Uni­ of Dinah in Opera Carolina's production versity of Richmond where he directs of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, and the choral program and teaches a vari­ Maddalena in Rigoletto with the Lan­ ety of music courses for the general stu­ sing Lyric Opera. She has also sung with dent. As a singer, Riehl has performed the Ash-Lawn Highland Summer Festi­ with Robert Shaw, the early music con­ val in Charlottesville, performing the sort Affetti Musicali, the Eastman Col­ role of Ma Moss in its acclaimed pro­ legium Musicum and lutenist Paul duction of Aaron Copland's The O'Dette, the Dickinson College Choir, Tenderland; and with Virginia Opera as the Lebanon Valley College Chorus, the part of their SPECtrum Artist program, Bucks County Choral Society, the Leba- non County Choral Society, the Almaviva, Le Nozze di Figaro; Westminster Choir, and the Children's Guglielmo, Cos'ifan Tutte; Marcello, Miracle Network Annual Messiah Sing. La Boheme; and Lescaut, Manon as well He is active as a guest conductor, clini­ as numerous comprimario roles. Last cian, and adjudicator and has recorded season he sang the title role in Puccini's for Chesky Records as a member of the Gianni Schicchi with the VCU Opera Westminster Choir. Theater and also appeared with the Rich­ mond Symphony singing Aaron Riehl is an active scholar with particu­ Copland songs. This is his second ap­ lar interests in eighteenth-century pearance with Affetti Musicali, having Viennese sacred music and the nine­ performed Carissirni's Jeptha with them teenth-century German lied. He is cur­ here two seasons ago. He has sung in rently editing the unpublished songs of concert as a guest artist at the National Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and is pre­ Cathedral and the French Embassy in paring a comprehensive guide to the Washington, D.C. and has performed ex­ sacred works of W. A Mozart. tensively in Germany and the Middle East. A veteran musical theatre per­ Prior to joing the UR faculty, he held former, he has played such roles as Papa faculty appointments at Nazareth Col­ Charlie, Shenandoah; Archibald Cra­ lege of Rochester, Westminster Choir ven, The Secret Garden; Michael, I Do, College, and Lebanon Valley College in I Do. He is currently portraying the role Pennsylvania. Riehl was Artistic Direc­ of Father (God) in Swift Creek Mill tor of the highly-acclaimed Lancaster Playhouse's production of Children of Chamber Singers, the Ephrata Cloister Eden by Stephen Schwartz. This past Chorus, and Conductor of the Lebanon fall he debuted with Virginia Opera as County Choral Society. the Prince in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette. He teaches on the voice facul­ Riehl earned the Doctor of Musical Arts ties of Virginia Commonwealth Univer­ in Conducting at the Eastman School of sity and the University of Richmond. Music, the Master of Music in Choral Conducting at Westminster Choir Col­ lege, and the BS in Music Education at Kenneth Merrill is currently on the Lebanon Valley College. His principal faculty of the Juilliard School Vocal Arts conducting study has been with Joseph Department, where he often acts as Flummerfelt, Frauke Haasemann, Rob­ musical director of productions of the ert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Donald Juilliard Opera Theatre.