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Celebrating the 200th
anniversary of Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar, St. Martin's inaugurated its
12th season with a treasure chest of nautical gems, arrangements of British sea
songs, and Anglo-Irish composer C. V. Stanford's stirring "Songs of the
Sea" and "Battle of the Baltic." Weekend sponsor: Trautman Farms As the angels sang to the shepherds their song "Glory in the Highest," so St. Martin's sang a delightful mixture of carols familiar and foreign, ancient and modern. The concert also featured the world-premiere of John White's "Music for Victims of our Earth". Works by Weelkes, Poulenc, Redford, Matthews, Singh, and others. December 2005. [Concert program] [Program notes] Concert sponsors: Linda Giedl and the Rev. R. L. Butler Trust III. "My Full Heart Forth...": The Men of St. Martin’s The men of St. Martin's,
collaborating with cellist James Fittz, professor of cello at the University of
Northern Colorado, sang a widely varied selection of works, sacred and secular,
by Mendelssohn, MacDowell, Elgar and others, in addition to a world premiere by
Terry Schlenker, commissioned especially for this concert. Concert sponsor: Walter E. Derryberry
IV. "It is Finished...": Stations of the Cross St. Martin's Chamber Choir followed
the Stations of the Cross in this Lenten observance, including
Renaissance motets and modern sacred classics, tracing Jesus' route
through Jerusalem on the day of his Crucifixion. Works by
Bruckner, Victoria, Schütz, Casals, Palestrina, and others. Weekend sponsor: The Anglican
Studies Program at the Iliff School of Theology, V. "There Let the Pealing Organ..." John Milton's famous stanzas on
the beauty of choir and organ sounding together was the inspiration for St.
Martin's season finale, which featured Richard Robertson as guest organist.
A variety of festive pieces for organ and choir, culminating with Britten's
masterpiece for the genre, "Rejoice in the Lamb," provided a
joyous conclusion to our 12th Season. Weekend sponsor: Stephen
Dilts A musical journey through
18th-century a cappella choral music, featuring works by J.S. Bach and his
students, such as Doles and Homilius. October 2004. [Concert
program] [Program
notes]
Hugo Distler's joyful and tender "Die Weihnachtsgeschichte"
("The Christmas Story") and other
Works by, or inspired by,
Scarlatti, Father and Son, with Toby Tenenbaum, pianist and composer.
Tenebrae: From Darkness to Light From darkness to light; from
despair to rejoicing: Music by Victoria, Byrd, Carnahan, White, Bruckner, Wood and
others. March 2005. [Concert program] [Program
notes]
Key works that influenced the history of choral
music: examples of earliest polyphony; Kyrie from
Machaut Notre Dame Mass, Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass, Allegri Misereri,
and more. A collection of works devoted to
the solitude of night and the peace of slumber, exquisitely blended in the
sounds of the 22 voices of St. Martin's Chamber Choir. September 2003. [Concert
program]
A concert of ancient English Christmas texts set to tunes both ancient and
modern.
The story of the Magnificat
in word and song, from Gregorian plainchant to modern settings.
A Cappella choral works by composers
otherwise associated with opera, such as Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Monteverdi,
Wagner and Britten. March 2004. [Concert program]
[Program notes]
"Service High and Anthems Clear" The world-premiere of Terry Schlenker's Mass for
Double Choir, along with Herbert Howells' Requiem and the premiere
of a These Few Tears by Janet Vanden Bosch made for a very special
10th anniversary concert. An International Grand Tour
Charles Villiers Stanford: The Second English Musical Renaissance Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, featuring his compositions those of his many students, including Vaughan Williams, Holst and Howells. September, 2002. [Concert program]
William Grant Still's "Christmas in the Western World" for string quartet, piano and choir will be the featured work in this holiday concert, which will also include "The St. Luke Christmas Story" by Cecil Effinger and other works by American and Colorado composers. December, 2003. [Concert program]
17th Century Italian Avant Garde An intimate concert in an intimate setting, featuring 12 singers from the full choir performing works by Monteverdi, Gesualdo and others of the early Baroque era. February, 2003. [Concert program]
Literary Concert Series - French Impressionism in Word and Song Works by Debussy, Ravel, Faure, Boulanger and non-Frenchmen also infected with the new style, such as Delius and Pizzetti. April, 2003. [Concert program]
From Bach to Brahms: The German Motet German motets by J. Christoph Bach, J. S. Bach, J. C. F. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Brahms, Arnold Mendelssohn and Hugo Distler. June, 2003. [Concert program]
Anthems by Handel, Boyce and Greene; the Croft Burial Service; and the Vaughan Williams Mass in g minor. Joined by organist Frank Nowell, this concert was presented by St. Martin's in cooperation with Handel Festival 2001. October, 2001. [Concert program]
Handel Festival 2001
Following on the model of our popular Christmas CD of the same name, this concert presented a program of eclectic Christmas works from Renaissance to modern, including arrangements of well-known carols, celebrating the Nativity's other major figure, the mother. December, 2001. [Concert program]
Literary Concert Series - Elizabeth I: Church and State This program featured the William Byrd Mass for 4 voices, Vaughan Williams' Three Shakespeare Songs, Benjamin Britten's Choral Dances from Gloriana, and the Jean Berger Skelton Poems. March, 2002. [Concert program]
The featured work on this concert was Randall Thompson's Mass of the Holy Spirit. The program also included Thompson's Alleluia, Samuel Barber's Reincarnations, the Cecil Effinger Four Pastorales (with oboe) and Timothy Krueger's Lamentations of Jeremiah. June, 2002. [Concert program]
Works by Victoria, Mendelssohn, Duruflé, Tallis and Bach that take Latin plainchant and the German Lutheran chorale as their inspiration. September, 2000. [Concert program]
Handel Festival 2000 St. Martin's assisted in launching a new festival, performing Handel's Chandos anthems #7 and 10 with a Baroque orchestra directed by Frank Nowell. The program also included an organ concerto with Richard Robertson and other instrumental works. October, 2000.
Mystical works for Yuletide by Victoria, Lauridsen, and McGrath, arrangements of beloved carols, and Swiss composer Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir. December, 2000. [Concert program]
Literary Concert Series: The Metaphysical Poets John Donne and George Herbert Works spanning the centuries to texts by Donne and Herbert, including the Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs, Finzi's Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice, and many other works, performed with organ. March, 2001. [Concert program]
Edwardian Genius: The Music of Charles Wood Sacred and secular works from this gifted Irishman's vast and varied output. This 2000-2001 season finale program was conducted by Rodney Williams of the Westminster Abbey choir, one of the world's foremost experts on Charles Wood. June, 2001. [Concert program]
Two works performed at royal funerals were featured in this concert: Cristobal Morales' Requiem, performed for the exequies of King Philip II of Spain in 1598, and Thomas Morley's Burial Service, sung at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997. Henry Walford Davies' A Short Requiem, written in memory of the fallen of World War I, and American turn-of-the-century composer Horatio W. Parker's Adstant Angelorum Chori ("There Stand the Angel Choirs") rounded out this choral glimpse of the heavenly. October, 1999. [Concert program]
Benjamin Britten's evocative cantata A Boy Was Born was the centerpiece of this holiday program, along with carol settings by William Billings, Johann Walther, Thomas Edward Morgan, Terry Schlenker, and Susan Brown. December, 1999. [Concert program]
Literary Concert Series: The Times of Jane Austen Beginning a series of concerts that will continue through the next several seasons celebrating giants of Western Literature, St. Martin's Chamber Choir collaborated with pianist Frank Nowell in a fascinating program which featured sacred and secular choral works by composers who were contemporaries of Jane Austen. The pieces were complemented by selected readings from Austen's works. March, 2000. [Concert program]
Mozart, Monteverdi, and Mendelssohn St. Martin's Chamber Choir's second subscription season concluded with the three great "M's" of classical music. The concert included Monteverdi madrigals, Mendelssohn motets, and Mozart's early Mass in C, K. 115. June, 2000. [Concert program]
A Man of Our Times: Jean Berger Raised in Alsace amid the polar worlds of France and Germany between the world wars, Jean Berger earned a doctorate from Heidelberg before fleeing the Nazi terror to American shores. An academic career of distinction led to an even more successful career as freelance composer of international renown. St. Martin's celebrated this remarkable Denver resident's 89th birthday with three of his extended choral works, chosen by Mr. Berger for this concert. Internationally famed pianist Francisco Aybar joined St. Martin's for Mr. Berger's Skelton Poems. September, 1998. [Concert program]
Christmas works with a special emphasis on the Virgin Mary were the focus of this concert, which celebrated the release of St. Martin's CD recording of the same name. The centerpiece of this beautiful program was the set of chorale movements from Hugo Distler's Die Weihnachtsgeschichte. December, 1998. [Concert program]
Featuring works that were not of their own era, "Prophetic Voices" included the mystical Weissagung des Prophets by German Renaissance master Christoph Demantius; the highly chromatic Prophetiae Sibyllarum of Lassus; the Madrid Mass for 4 voices by Domenico Scarlatti, written for Spain's King Carlos III in a consciously antique style; and Colorado composer Cecil Effinger's Four Pastorales for choir and oboe, set to poems by Colorado poet-laureate Thomas Hornsby Ferril. March, 1999. [Concert program]
Dreams All Too Brief: English Partsongs Celebrating St. Martin's Chamber Choir's first five years, this program was a virtual repeat of our very first concert in June of 1994. Audiences were entranced by these 19th and 20th century miniature jewels by Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Howells and others, and by the masterpiece of the genre, Parry's timeless Songs of Farewell. June, 1999. [Concert program]
In honor of the 1600th anniversary of the death of St. Martin of Tours, a program of music by Byrd, Arcadelt, Berardi, Palestrina, and Parry. November 1997. [Concert program]
Stations of the Cross - A Lenten Choral Meditation The service of the 14 Stations of the Cross, using the music of Palestrina, di Lasso, Tallis, Byrd, and Bruckner to accompany and illumine the scriptural texts. March 1998. [Concert program]
A program of English choral music by some of the Tudor era's most important composers. June, 1998. [Concert program]
Hugo Distler's complete cantata Die Wiehnachtgeschichte ("The Christmas Story") and rose-themed Christmas motets. December 1996. [Concert program]
A Cappella from the Age of Enlightenment A musical tour of 18th century Europe, including music of Purcell, Boyce, Pergolesi, Lotti, von Wilderer, and several members of the Bach family. April 1997. [Concert program] St. Martin's original Marian Christmas program, presented in December 1995, contained Marian antiphons, English carols, and a number of settings of the text "Ave Maria". [Concert program]
The William Byrd Mass for 4 Voices and accompanying Eastertide Anthems. May 1996. [Concert program] A concert of nocturnal partsongs formed St.
Martin's Chamber Choir's inaugural concert in June 1994.
Secular English partsongs from the seasons of the year. November 1994. [Concert program]
A concert of madrigals on themes of Love, Spring, Time and Death. April 1995. [Concert program]
St. Martin's presents the Anglican service of Evensong throughout Denver and the Front Range. |