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Such was J. S. Bach's admiration of the great Lübeck organist Dietrich Buxtehude that he reportedly walked 200 miles in 1705 to hear him perform. This concert commemorates the 300th anniversary of Buxtehude's death, and presents works by those who influenced him, and those whom he influenced. This program includes a cappella works by Schütz, Pachelbel, and Bach, as well as Buxtehude's Missa Brevis. [Concert program] [Program notes] [Denver Post review]
Weekend concert sponsor: Trautman Farms II. Christmas with St. Martin’s This year's sparkling holiday concert "Christmas with St. Martin's Chamber Choir" celebrates the release of St. Martin's second Christmas CD, "A Marian Christmas II." The first portion of the concert contains highlights from both "Marian Christmas" CDs, including, from the first, Distler's 6 settings of
Est ist ein Ros entsprungen, Parry's When Christ was born, and the Biebl
Ave Maria; and from the second, Maxwell-Davies' The Fader of
Heven, Byrd's Beata Viscera Maria, and Dunkin's arrangement of
Gloucestershire Wassail. The second portion of the concert presents a "Christmas Potpourri" of works, from Pearsall's
In dulci jubilo to Swedish composer Gustav Nordqvist's Jul,
jul, and including along the way Four Canticles for the Christmas Season
by modern American composer J. Chris Moore. The final section of the concert features a single work, the
Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten, with Don Hilsberg, harp.
Concert sponsors: Robert and Juanita Kniss III. Gradus ad
Parnassum, Parnassus, a mountain in Greece thought to be the home of the Muses, has symbolized a haven for the arts from the time of the Ancient Greeks. The greatest musical theoretician of the 18th century, Johann Josef Fux, thus titled the crowning achievement of his life's work -- a treatise on the art of counterpoint -- Gradus ad Parnassum ("Steps to Parnassus"). In a collaboration as significant to Denver's arts scene as Fux was to 18th century composition (including that of Bach), the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado and St. Martin's celebrate this amazing man's legacy with a regional premiere of his Kaiserrequiem ("Emperor's Requiem"), along with a cappella works by Palestrina, instrumental works by Corelli, and Bach's motet Der Geist hilft. [Concert program] [Program notes]
Concert underwriters: St. Martin's raises the roof with a joyous concert of uplifting Easter music, from the Middle Ages to the present; and concludes with a performance of 20th-century English composer Edmund Rubbra's powerful Missa in Honorem Sancti Dominici. In place of the Lenten concerts of recent years, which have been popular with St. Martin's audiences, St. Martin's graduates from the contemplative to the celebratory, yet retains the unique mix of the sonorous and the spiritual. [Concert program] [Program notes]
V. Masterworks for Double Choir St. Martin's expands to
32 singers for this jubilant presentation of some of history's most
exciting works for Double Choir. From Gabrielli's antiphonal
motets -- fashioned for the reverberant acoustics of St. Mark's
Cathedral in Venice, where the two choirs stood on opposite sides of the
church -- to the rich Romantic sounds of Felix Mendelssohn's
motets, St. Martin's will take the listener on a rich tour of lavish
choral sound. The concert's finale will be a performance of Ralph
Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor in the year which marks the
50th anniversary of his death. Please note that the Sunday,
Tickets $20 adult, $17 senior,
$5 student Download the full season brochure St. Martin's Chamber Choir gratefully acknowledges the support of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, the Colorado Council on the Arts, and many private and foundation donors.
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