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Update on October 20th Concert

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Collectio Musicorum presents a free concert in memory of Dr. Ronald Cross and Dr. Arnold Rosner

The Festival Chorus of Collectio Musicorum (“Collection of Music”) is presenting a concert on Friday, October 20^th, in memory of two Wagner College music professors.

Collectio Musicorum presents concerts of music you will not hear elsewhere. Founded in 2013 by musicologist Jeff S. Dailey, Collectio Musicorum is devoted to giving the best possible performances of music from the earliest of times

The concert will focus on music by Mattheus Pipelare (c. 1450-1515), a composer active in the Low Countries during the great flowering of Franco-Netherlandish music. He lived and worked in Louvain, Antwerp and ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and, unlike many of his contemporaries, seems never to have left to study in either France or Italy. A master of polyphony, his surviving music consists mainly of sacred works, and the Festival Chorus of Collectio Musicorum will present several of these works, including his magisterial Missa de Feria and Magnificat, at a free concert on Friday, October 20th at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 122 West 69th St, New York, NY 10023 at 8 PM. Also on the program are keyboard intabulations of works by Pipelare, performed by the organist James Wetzel.

This concert is a tribute to the memory of Dr. Ronald Cross (1929-2013), whose work as a musicologist brought the compositions of Pipelare to light and life. Dr. Cross was also a composer, and several of his organ works will be heard at the concert, along with music by his colleague, Dr. Arnold Rosner (1945-2013), a composer inspired by Renaissance polyphony. In addition to choral music by Dr. Rosner, the concert will feature his “Wedding March,” which Dr. Cross performed at Dr. Rosner’s wedding at the United Nations Chapel.

Other works by composers associated with Dr. Cross will also appear on the program. Dr. Cross was a great admirer of Richard Wagner’s music, and he developed and taught a class on Wagner’s operas at Wagner College. The concert will feature two choruses from Wagner’s early opera Rienzi, with James Wetzel performing the organ part.

Although Dr. Cross was not known as a performer of the music of Arthur Sullivan, he was very supportive of Dr. Dailey’s scholarship in that area, and wrote one of the evaluations of the latter’s study of the opera Ivanhoe which led to its publication. Dr. Dailey will conduct two pieces by Sullivan on the program—the anthem “I Will Sing of Thy Power,” with Nathaniel Adams as the tenor soloist, and the original version of the madrigal, “When Love and Beauty” from his early opera The Sapphire Necklace. Although Sullivan wrote this opera early in his career, it was never performed. One of only two selections from the score that was ever published, the version of the madrigal which went on the market two years before the composer died was abridged and simplified. This concert will present the composer’s original intentions.

Christ and St. Stephen’s Church is accessible to the 72^nd Street stations of the 1, 2, 3, B, and C trains. For further travel information, go to http://www.csschurch.org/contact-us/map/.

Collectio Musicorum is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 corporation. For more details, go to http://collectio-musicorum.blogspot.com/.

This concert is part of the
NEW YORK EARLY MUSIC CELEBRATION 2017
an Early Music Foundation Service Project

For a listing of the other Celebration Events, go to: www.NYEMC.org

Fall Concerts--September 15 and October 20

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On September 15th, we present Sounds of the Reformation, in tribute to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

On October 20th, we present Primarily Pipelare, featuring music by Mattheus Pipelare, a contemporary of Josquin. This concert is part of the Early Music Foundation's celebration of Franco-Netherlandish music.

Details may be found on this website's Announcements page.

Wagner's Early Music--Friday, May 5, 2017

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Richard Wagner was a big fan of the Middle Ages. Almost all of his operas are based on medieval legends or history. He wrote operas about two medieval composers--Tannhäuser and Hans Sachs--and referred to others in his works.

On Friday, May 5th, the musicians of Collectio Musicorum will present a concert of music associated with Wagner's operas. You will hear music by Tannhäuser, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Walther von der Vogelweide, Hans Sachs, and others. We will perform the original Flying Dutchman ballad and the ballad that gave Wagner the idea for an opera on the Tannhäuser legend, as well as music from the time of Rienzi and pieces from the monastery that inspired Parsifal.

The concert will be held at Christ and St. Stephen's Church, 122 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023, at 8 PM. Admission is free.

We will repeat the program at a free fringe concert at the Boston Early Music Festival on Friday, June 16th, at noon. It will take place at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02116.

Celebrating Shakespeare

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Music from Shakespeare’s Time

Commemorating the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Collectio Musicorum is presenting a concert featuring music from his plays and from his time. Included will be works by Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson, and Nicholas Lanier. Admission is free.

Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 120 West 69^th Street, New York, NY 10023

Friday, October 21, 2016 at 8 PM

Music of Medieval Germany

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The musicians of Collectio Musicorum will perform a free concert of music from medieval Germany on Friday, April 15th at 8 PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Church.

Featured will be music by several Minnersinger, including songs by the historical Tannhaueser, as well as the ballad on which Richard Wagner based his opera. Also on the program will be music by the German nun and mystic Hildegard of Bingen, the Austrian composer known only as The Monk of Salzburg, the composer/writer/politician Oswald von Wolkenstein, and selections from the Carmina Burana manuscript.

The poems from the 13th century manuscript Carmina Burana are best known from Carl Orff's 20th century cantata. We will perform several selections from this collection, including some that were later set to music by Orff. The finale of the program will be the expansive sequence"Olim Sudor Herculis," a remarkably complex piece of music telling of the labors of Hercules.

The church is located at 120 West 69th Street, between Columbus Avenue and Broadway. It is just a few blocks from the 72nd Street subway station on the B, C, 1, 2, or 3 trains. The concert is free.

Festival Chorus Presents Free Concert

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Join us for a concert of choral music by some of the city's best vocal artists. The Festival Choir, under the direction of Dr. Jeff Dailey, will give a free concert on Sunday, April 3rd at 7 PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 69th Street. Featured on the program are pieces by the Renaissance composers Matteus Pipelare and Josquin des Prez, along with selections from The Martyr of Antioch by Arthur Sullivan and choral works by Ronald Cross and Arnold Rosner. Music by Pipelare is rarely heard today, and he will be represented on the program by his majestic "St. John Credo," an elaborate contrapunctal masterpiece.

Music of Medieval Spain

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Join the musicians of Collectio Musicorum for a concert of the Music of Medieval Spain. It will take place at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, just south of Union Square. Admission is free. It starts at 8 PM.

The concert will feature music from across the Iberian peninsula. On the program are selections from several important manuscripts--the Llibre Vermell, the Las Huelgas Codex, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Also included will be music by King Denis of Portugal and the Cantigas d'Amigo of Martim Codax, a cycle of songs about love and the sea. It will also be a rare opportunity to hear Mozarabic chant performed live.

Performers include singers Patrick Fennig, Martin Coyle, and Richard Lippold, accompanied by artistic director Jeff Dailey,

The Center for Remembering and Sharing is accessible to the N, R, Q, 4, 5, 6 trains. For a map, go to http://crsny.org/wp/ and scroll down.

This concert is part of the NEW YORK EARLY MUSIC CELEBRATION 2015: El Nuevo Mundo,
a Service Project of the EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION. For details, go to www.NYEMC.org.

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