Lenten Oratories: Music of Bonifazio Graziani & Giacomo Carissimi

Program III

Lenten Oratories: Music of Bonifazio Graziani & Giacomo Carissimi

Dates 2012:

Friday, February 24th – 8:00pm-9:30pm

*Saturday, February 25th – 7:30pm-9:00pm*

Sunday, February 26th – Intermezzo at 1:00, with Concert from 2:00pm-3:30pm

Venue – Friday & Sunday: Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 1 Lourdes Place, Minneapolis, MN  55414-1062.  (Note:  Parking and Access information below.)

*Venue – Saturday:  Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church, 1900 Wellesley Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105.

Once again, we bring you INTERMEZZO, a presentation by Don Livingston prior to the Sunday matinee.  These short presentations are designed to complement each concert of the season, with this one discussing and demonstrating the evolution of cantatas.  Your ticket for Friday, Saturday or Sunday is your admission for this special presentation.

INTERMEZZO Sunday, February 26th at 1:00pm

Concert Repertory:  Graziani’s only two existing oratories, based on the Old Testament story of Adam and Eve and the New Testament parable of The Prodigal Son.  Both are set with four Motets of Carissimi, which form the spiritual exercise for the 2012 Lenten Season. All transcriptions from manuscripts, these works demonstrate the similarities and unique differences in compositional style of these two composers of Marino Italy.

Parking – Our Lady of Lourdes  . . . Easiest place to park is in the underground parking structure next to the church.  Enter the structure off of SE 2nd Street.  Take the elevator to street level (3).  The church is across the street on the left.  Parking is self service, so you will need to pay with a credit card as you leave, using one of the automated kiosks.  So take your ticket with you.  As you leave the structure, you’ll need to use the gate on the right. (The one on the left is for contract parkers.)  Parking is $2/hour.  There is also limited street parking available, and the meters are free on Sunday.

Access – Our Lady of Lourdes – For Friday evening, enter door “Three” to the left of the main entrance at street level. We’ll wait in the Great Room until Stations of the Cross are finished at around 7:40 PM.  Sunday afternoon, use the main entrance.

Parking – Nativity of Our Lord – free parking in the church lot behind the adjacent school plus street parking.

 

The Ensemble

Singers

Soprano

Kristi Bergland, Heather Cogswell, Marta Daehn, Marita Link, Lisa Habeck, Margaret Weidner

Alto

Brian Link, Timothy Faatz, Lauren Vick, Christine Anameier

Tenor

Bill Pederson, Andrew Kane, Craig Lemming, Michael Schmidt

Bass

Douglas Shambo II, Garrick Comeaux

Theorbo

Tom Walker, Paul Berget

Viola da gamba

Mary Burke

Harpsichord

Bruce Jacobs

Organ

Donald Livingston

Concert II – Spaniards in Rome: Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria

In celebration of the 400^th Anniversary of his death

Repertory:

Music for All Saints and All Souls of the two Spaniards in Rome: Tomás de Victoria’s Requiem and Cristóbal de Morales’ Dialogue Motets.

Dates 2011:
Friday, November 11th – 7:30pm-9pm
Sunday, November 13th – 2pm-3:30pm

Venue: The Chapel of St. Mary at The Saint Paul Seminary in St. Paul, MN Read more

St. Louis in Rome: The Influence of Italian Baroque in France September 16 &18

Program I

St. Louis in Rome: The Influence of Italian Baroque in France

Dates: Friday, September 16th from 7:30pm-9:00pm

Sunday, September 18th from 2:00pm-3:30pm

Venue: The Chapel of St. Mary at The Saint Paul Seminary in St. Paul, MN

Repertory: Music of Carissimi’s most illustrious student, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Italian composers such as Bernardo Pasquini, Vincenzo Ugolini, Antonio Cifra and the violinist, Arcangelo Corelli, who were all active at the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in early-baroque Rome. Read more