Begin the Song – June 7
June 7 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The concerts on June 7 and 8 at 2:00 p.m. will be centered around the organ and our patron Saint,
Cecelia. Consortium Carissimi will turn their attention to “beyond the alps” with the Odes dedicated
to her by John Blow and Henry Purcell.
Hail Bright Cecilia – 1692 Henry Purcell
Text Nicholas Brady (1659-1726)
The air for bass from this Ode is entitled Wondrous Machine
To thee the Warbling Lute,
Though us’d to Conquest, must be forc’d to yield:
With thee unable to dispute.
This ode will feature guest artist bass-baritone, Graham Bier.
Begin the Song! – 1684 John Blow
Text John Oldham (1653–1683)
Begin the Song! Your instruments advance,
Tune the voice, and tune the flute,
Touch the silent sleeping lute,
And make the strings to their own measures dance.
Welcome to All the Pleasures – 1683 Henry Purcell
Text Christopher Fishburn
Welcome to all the pleasures that delight
Of ev’ry sense the grateful appetite.
Hail, great assembly of Apollo’s race.
Hail to this happy place, this musical assembly
That seems to be the arc of universal harmony.