Season Archive: 1990

David Hodgkins, Music Director

May 1990: Catholic Masters in Protestant England: Music for the Latin Rite, c. 1540 - 1620

Tuesday, May 1, 1990 7:45 PM
Goddard Chapel, Tufts University
Medford, MA

Saturday, May 12, 1990 8 PM
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA

Sunday, May 13. 1990 4 PM
Christ Church, Asbury Street
South Hamilton, MA

Program:

Ascendit Deus a 5 Peter Phillips (1560 - 1628)

Ne irascaris, Domine a 5 William Byrd (1543 - 1623)

Verbum caro factum est a 6 John Sheppard (1515 - 1560)

O sacrum convivium a 5 Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585)

Libera me, Domine a 5 Byrd

In pace, in idipsum a 4 Sheppard

- Intermission -

Lamentations of Jeremiah a 5 Robert White (1538 - 1574)

Dum transisset Sabbatum a 5 Tallis

Factum est silentium a 6 Richard Dering (1580 - 1630)

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David Hodgkins, Music Director

July 1990: Aires, Songes, and Madrigalls: Vocal Music of Dowland, Wilbye, and others

Friday, July 20, 1990 8 PM
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA

Program:

I. John Dowland, Ayres for four voices:

What poor astronomers are they (Book 3, 1603) John Dowland
(1523 - 1626)

Love stood amaz'd (Book 3, 1603) Dowland

What if I never speed? (Book 3, 1603) Dowland

In this trembling shadow (A Pilgrim's Solace, 1612) Dowland

Me, me, and none but me (Book 3, 1603) Dowland

II. Madrigals, sung by small vocal ensembles:

Three virgin nymphs Thomas Weelkes
(c. 1575 - 1623)

April is in my mistress' face Thomas Morley
(1557 - c. 1602)

Weep, o mine eyes John Wilbye
(1574 - 1638)

Fair Phyllis I saw John Farmer
(c. 1565 - c. 1605)

- Intermission -

III. Songs to the lute and viol:

Dainty fine bird (1612) Orlando Gibbons
Carol Marton, solo voice (1583 - 1625)

If my complaints (Book 1, 1597) Dowland

Come again, sweet love doth now invite (Book 1) Dowland

Alas, fair face (1605) Francis Pilkington
(c. 1560 - 1638)

It fell on a summer's day (1601) Thomas Campion
David Hodgkins, solo voice (1567 - 1620)

IV. Madrigals (full choir)

Adieu, sweet Amaryllis a 4 (1st Book, 1598) Wilbye

Draw on, sweet night a 6 (2nd Book, 1609) Wilbye

This sweet and merry month of May a 6 (1590) William Byrd
(1543 - 1623)

Phyllis, I fain would die now a 7 (1595) Morley

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