Saturday July 31, 2010
2:00 PM
St. John's Anglican Church
Ticket price: $39
Ludus Modalis is the most exciting new vocal ensemble to hit the international stage. Based in France they use innovation and imagination to breathe new life into Rennaissance music. An experience like no other.
Established by Bruno Boterf, the twelve-voice ensemble, Ludus Modalis “The Mode Game” – has set itself the task of restoring the sound palette of sacred and secular polyphonic repertoire of the Renaissance and pre-Baroque. The group tries to distinguish itself from a too-generalised approach to interpretation, by concentrating on those aspects of performance practice sometimes neglected, such as pronunciation, an intonation governed by the use of the different modes, temperament, a search for variety in vocal sonority, and a scrupulous respect for the original sources, reinforced by collaboration with musicologists. By adopting a practice of combining male, female and children's voices, Ludus Modalis strives to be an ensemble, in the first place, of colours,where the mixing of contrasting timbres is seen as a source of richness, and where beauty is not the predominant notion, but rather an “ornamental” aspect.
Ludus Modalis Vocal Ensemble from France
Annie Dufresne, Nathalie Marec: Cantus
Sophie Toussaint: Altus
Bruno Boterf, Vincent Bouchot: Tenor
François Fauché: Bassus
"Motets and sacred madrigals"
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Vergine bella sacred madrigal - text by Petrarque*
Osculetur me Vulnerasti cor meum from "Canticum canticorum" Vergine pura *
Vox dilecti mei Dilectus meus from "Canticum canticorum" Vergine, quante lagrime *
" Les Amours de Ronsard"
Musical setting of Ronsard's love poems
Guillaume Boni
Comment au départir
Antoine de Bertrand
Marie, qui voudrait vostre nom retourner
Ces deux yeux bruns
Clément Janequin
Nature ornant la Dame
Pierre Certon
J’espère et crain
Bien qu’à grand tort
Roland de Lassus
Ton nom que mon vers dira
Je ne veux plus chanter que tristesse
Jean de Castro
Quand je dors
Pleut il a Dieu
Pierre Clereau
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Andrew Henderson - Organ Recital
Saturday July 31, 2010
4:00 PM
St. John's Anglican Church
Ticket price: $39
Andrew Elliot Henderson has just completed his fifth season as Director of Music & Organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City. He is the organ instructor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and teaches graduate courses in organ literature at Westminster Choir College. A native of Thorold, Ontario, Andrew holds degrees in music from Cambridge and Yale Universities, and was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Juilliard School, where he received the prize for the best doctoral document. He was a finalist in the international organ competition Grand Prix de Chartres in 2002, and the following year he won first prize in the Royal Canadian College of Organist’s National Organ Playing Competition. Dr. Henderson has been featured on NPR’s Pipedreams and has performed recitals at St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, London, plus most major venues in New York City and at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. From 1995 to 1996 Andrew served as Noel Edison’s assistant at St. John’s, Elora, and has often appeared as a recitalist and accompanist at the Elora Festival during the past fifteen years. A Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, his teachers have included John Tuttle, Barrie Cabena, David Sanger, Thomas Murray and John Weaver. Andrew’s first solo CD, featuring the organ at St. John’s, Elora, including many of the works on this afternoon’s program, will be released this fall.
Epilogue (1908)
Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Organ Concerto in F, Op. 4, No. 4
G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
(arr. Andrew Henderson)
Allegro
Andante
Adagio
Allegro
Variations on ‘Wondrous Love’, Op. 34
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Why aske yee?
John Bull (1562-1611)
Master Tallis’s Testament
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Andante with Variations in D
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Eine Kleine Morgenmusik, Op. 631 (2010)
Barrie Cabena (b. 1933)
(dedicated to Andrew Henderson) - premiere performance
Just Before Dawn
The Morning Breaks
A Morning Stroll
A Mid-morning Nap
Celebrating the Morning
Dialog: Prelude with Choral (1993)
Ester Mägi (b. 1922)
Imperial March, Op. 32
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
(arr. George C. Martin)
Total Duration: 66 minutes
John McDermott
Saturday July 31, 2010
8:00 PM
Gambrel Barn
Ticket price: $44.50
Join Scottish-Canadian tenor John McDermott and his band for a celebration of all things Celtic.
“Legend” is not a title John McDermott would readily embrace, but his accomplishments have become legendary in recording industry lore. The success of his first album Danny Boy in addition to a fast growing North American fan base, won through a tireless touring schedule, led to his participation in the PBS phenomenon, The Irish Tenors. Appearances on ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘The Today Show.’ catapulted him into a musical career that includes three Canadian platinum records, five Juno nominations and a solid international touring schedule. He calls Toronto and Boston home, but he has also found a home as an international recording star and household name – known as much for his successful musical career as for his commitment to veterans’ causes.
