Category: Past Season

Mostly music from and inspired by Asia.

Featuring music by Holst, Chilcott, Schafer, and traditional folksong settings.

Music of Myth, Magic and Legend

Featuring Johannes Brahms’ “Four Songs,” Amy Beach’s “The Sea-Fairies,” Henry Hadley’s cantata “The Fairy Thorn,” and Felix Mendelssohn’s Two Fairy Songs from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Second annual holiday concert honoring the Global Fund for Women.

Featuring music by Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, Rossi, Schütz and Cozzolani.

A Spiritual Journey Through American Choral Music

Featuring music by Libby Larsen, Jude Navari, Alice Parker, and Vincent Persichetti. Spirituals arranged by Jacqueline Hairston. Early American Sacred Songs by the Shakers. Appalachian Folksongs arranged by Ron Nelson. World premiere of commissioned piece by Oakland composer Steven Clark.

From Generation to Generation

Jude Navari, Artistic Director
Heather Heise, Piano
Dan Levitan, Harp
Beth Milne & Erin Vang, French Horn

Program

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Jude Navari, Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist
Shana Kirsch, Cello

Program

• Canticle of the Creatures – Sister Theophane Hytrek
• In Pace – Orlandus Lassus
• Congratulamini Mihi Omnes – Jacob Handl
• Laudate Pueri – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
• Laudate Pueri Dominum, op 39 no. 2 – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
• Cantique de Jean Racine, op 11 – Gabriel Faure
• Psalm 150 – Cesar Franck
• Laudate Pueri Dominum – Michael Haydn
• Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
• Psalm 150 – Zoltan Kodaly
• Psalm 23 – The Lord is my Shepherd – Randall Thompson
• Priere de Saint Francois d’Assise – Jacques Chailley
• The Canticle of the Sun – Libby Larsen

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Jude Navari, Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist

Program

• Hark! How the Songsters of the Grove – Henry Purcell
  • Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying
• Ludate Pueri Dominum – Michael Haydn
• Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends – Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn
  • Abshied
• Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Faure
• “Belle nuit, o nuit d’ amour” (Barcarolle) – Jacques Offenbach
• “Viens, Mallika…Dome epais le jasmin” – Leo Delibes
• Sonate for Piano Four Hands – Francis Poulenc
  • Prelude
  • Rustique
  • Final
• ‘Tis the Gift to be Simple – American Shaker Hymn Arr. Alice Parker
• Wade in the Watah – Traditional Negro Spiritual Arr. Ysaye M. Barnwell

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Choral works celebrating women composers throughout history. Choral Prelude by Voci for Stephanie Weisman’s Production, Aphrodisia.

Jude Navari, Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist

Program

• Canticle of the Creatures – Sister Theophane Hytrek
• The Canticle of the Sun – Libby Larsen
• O Ecclesia – Hildegard of Bingen
• Stavasi il mio bel Sol – Maddalena Casulana
• Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends – Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn
• Scarborough Fair – English Folk Ballad Arr. Mary Goetze
• Bread and Roses – Traditional Arr. Judy Margulis
• This Little Light of Mine – Traditional African American Spiritual Arr. Ysaye M. Barnwell

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Jude Navari, Conductor
Heather Heise, Accompanist

Program

• Salmo 150 – Ernani Aguiar
• Nigra Sum – Pablo Casals
• Pollerita Roja (World Premiere) (The Red Skirt) – Gabriela Lena Frank
• Missa Sao Sebastiao – Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Kyrie
  • Gloria
  • Sanctus
  • Benedictus
  • Agnus Dei
• Nino Lindo (Beautiful Boy) – Traditional Venezuelan Christmas Song Arr. Dave and Jean Perry
• A la nanita nana (Murm ‘ring a Lullaby) – Mexican Fold Song Arr. David Eddleman
• A La Ru – Mexican Folk Song Arr. Paul Stuart
• A la Media Noche (At Midnight) – Traditional Puerto Rican Carol Arr. Joan Szymko
• Shape-Note Hymns
  • New Jerusalem – Sacred Harp Hymnal – Jeremiah Ingalls
  • Wondrous Love – Sacred Harp Hymnal – James Christopher
  • Exultation – Southern Harmony Hymnal – Ed. William Walker
• Shouts and Lullabies: American Folksongs and Spirituals for Christmas – Traditional Arr. Jude Navari
  • A Bright Morning Star Is Rising
  • Quodlibet
  • Virgin Mary
  • Sing-a -Lamb/Baby Born Today
  • Cradle Hymn
  • Little Bitty Baby
  • I Wonder as I Wander
  • The Cherry Tree Carol
  • A Bright Morning Star is Rising – Reprise
  • Rise Up Shepherd and Follow

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