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 May
1992 - "The Cantors of Leipzig" - Music of Bach, Schelle &
Kuhnau
This concert was comprised of church music performed at the famous
St. Thomas Church of Leipzig, Germany. The best-know of its cantors (choir
masters), was Johann Sebastian Bach. Cantata No. 4 and Cantata
No. 140, with solos by Ed Nordby, Ruth Baer, Jeffrey Baer, and Jonathan
West, were performed in English. "Magnificat", by Johann Kuhnau,
who was Bach's predecessor at the St. Thomas Church, opens the program.
Johann Schelle was Kuhnau's predecessor and wrote many of the church cantata's
used during the time of Bach's schooling. Performed in this concert were
"Heut'
triumphieret Gottes Sohn" , with solos by Barbara Roach, Julianne Hardy,
Tracey Phillips, Cecil Yates and John Barber, and "Nun danket alle Gott".
These two cantatas were only recently discovered by musicologist, Mary
S. Morris. The music is accompanied by a 24-piece orchestra under the direction
of Douglas I. Smith.
December
1992 - Music of the A Cappella Tradition
This concert was an a cappella music collection spanning 400 years.
The concert included the earliest Medieval and Renaissance composers to
works written by composers of today, concluding with traditional music
of the holiday season. Among those performed were Gabrieli's "Lieto
Godea Secundo", K. Lee Scott's "Go, Lovely Rose", Allen Koepke's
"Festival
Psalter" and Tchaikovsky's "The Nightingale". Five songs by
Brahms, "Rest" by Ralph Vaughan Williams and "When Sunny Gets
Blue" by Marvin Fisher complete the first half of the program, with
soloist Ruth Hynson-Palmer (mezzo-soprano). The final half was Orlando
di Lasso's "Echo Song", Copeland's "Lark", Stravinsky's "Ave
Maria", followed by a collection of holiday music.
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