Season Archive: 1996

David Tiedman, Music Director (his final program as our director)

Spring 1996: The Silver Swan: Lamentations and motets by William Byrd, and English madrigals

Saturday, April 27, 1996   8:00 PM
St. John's Episcopal Church
Revere and Roanoke Streets
Jamaica Plain, MA  

Wednesday, May 15, 1996  8:00 PM
St. John's Episcopal Church
27 Devens Street
Charlestown, MA

Saturday, May 18, 1996  8:00 PM
Harvard-Epworth Church
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Program:

Libera me, Domine   William Byrd (1543 - 1623)

De lamentatione Hieremiae prophetae Byrd
 
Laudibus in sanctis Dominum  Byrd

- Intermission -

All pleasure is of this condition  John Wilbye (1574-1638)

Weep, weep mine eyes   Wilbye

Lady, when I behold    Wilbye

Fine knacks for ladies   John Dowland (1562 - 1626)
 Ruthie Miller, Anne Kazlauskas, Evan Ingersoll, Mark Bucciarelli

The lowest trees have tops  Dowland
 Laura Yim, Anne Matthews, David Gilbert, Barry Goldberg

Humor, say: A Dialogue  Dowland
 Cynthia Linkas, Barry Goldberg
 Chorus: Debbie Winkler, Anne Kazlauskas, Bugra Giritlioglu,
  Mike McDonald, Evan Ingersoll, Mark Bucciarelli
 Joel van Lennep, lute
 Kathy Benforado, viola da gamba

Sleep, fleshly birth   Robert Ramsey (c. 1595 - after 1644)

What is our life?    Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

The silver swan   Gibbons

Hard by a crystal fountain  Thomas Morley (1557- c. 1602)

Fyer, fyer!    Morley

Texts and Translations (text file)

Program Notes (text file)

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Scott Metcalfe, Music Director   (Scott's first program with us, and our first foray into vernacular Latin pronunciation)

Fall/Winter 1996: Fortuna Desperata

Featuring Josquin's Missa Fortuna Desperata
          with other works by Josquin, de la Rue, and Isaac

Saturday, November 16, 1996   8:00 p.m.
Harvard-Epworth Church
1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Sunday, November 17, 1996   5:00 p.m.
Trinity Church, Topsfield, MA

Wednesday, November 20, 1996  8:00 p.m.
St. John's Episcopal Church
27 Devens Street, Charlestown, MA.

Program:

Lauda anima mea Dominum  Pierre de la Rue (c. 1460 - 1518)

Missa Fortuna Desperata  Josquin Desprez (c. 1440 - 1521)
 Kyrie
 Gloria

Salve Regina   Josquin

- Intermission -

Missa Fortuna Desperata  Josquin
 Credo
 Sanctus
 Agnus Dei

Virgo prudentissima   Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450 - 1517)

Texts and Translations (text file)

Program Notes (text file)