St. Martin's Chamber Choir Home1999-2000 Concert Season
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Two works performed at royal funerals are 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") round out this choral glimpse of the heavenly. [Concert program] Saturday, October 2, 1999 7:30 p.m. - St. Elizabeth's Church, Denver Feast of St. Martin St. Martin's Chamber Choir honors the feast day of our namesake, St. Martin, Bishop of Tours with a sumptuous dinner and a "Fin de Siecle" program of light choral and solo selections celebrating the passing of the century. Saturday, November 13, 1999 6:30 p.m. - Dagwell Hall, St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver II. A Boy Was Born Benjamin Britten's evocative cantata A Boy Was Born will be the centerpiece of this holiday concert, along with carol settings by William Billings, Johann Walther, Thomas Edward Morgan, Terry Schlenker, and Susan Brown - a wide variety of Christmas works from Medieval to Modern. [Concert program] Friday, December 10, 1999 7:30 p.m. - Christ Episcopal
Church, Denver III. 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 collaborates with pianist Frank Nowell in a fascinating program which will feature sacred and secular choral works by composers who were contemporaries of Jane Austen. The pieces will be complemented by selected readings from Austen's works. [Concert program] Saturday, March 11, 2000 7:30 p.m. - St. Elizabeth's Church, Denver IV. Mozart, Monteverdi, and Mendelssohn St. Martin's Chamber Choir's second season concludes with the three great "M's" of classical music. This concert could also be called "Masses, Madrigals, and Motets," as it includes Monteverdi madrigals, Mendelssohn motets, and Mozart's early Mass in C, K. 115, written at age 16, and the only one of his masses that can be performed a cappella. [Concert program] Friday, June 9, 2000 7:30 p.m. - Bethany Lutheran
Church, Denver St. Martin's Chamber Choir gratefully acknowledges the grant support of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District and the Colorado Council on the Arts.
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