Collectio Musicorum - Upcoming Performances

Early Music from Scotland October 18th, 2019

0 comments Posted by Collectio Musicorum at 3:14 PM

Collectio Musicorum (“Collection of Music”) presents a concert of music from Scotland, dating from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. It takes place at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 120 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023, on Friday, October 18^th at 8 PM. Admission is Free.

Much of the program is devoted to music by Robert Johnson, a priest and reformer, who was forced to flee Scotland due to his reformed religious views. A prolific composer, his music has recently been edited by Dr. Elaine Moohan as part of the Musica Scotica series. This music has never before been performed in the United States.

Also among the pieces on the program are works from the twelfth century, when the northern portions of Scotland were under the control of Scandinavian kings, including one of the earliest examples of medieval polyphony, a hymn to St. Magnus the Martyr, who was martyred in 1115. Music by Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son, James VI, will also be heard, as well as music by Roderick Morison, also called “The Blind Harper,” who lived at the turn of the eighteenth century.

The performers include singers Amanda Sidebottom, Padraic Costello, Nate Adams, and Andrew Padgett; harpist Christopher Thompson and lutenist Christopher Morrongiello, all under the direction of Collectio Musicorum’s artistic director, Dr. Jeff S. Dailey.

The Many Sounds of Rigoletto; the Music behind the Music May 17, 2019

0 comments Posted by Collectio Musicorum at 11:48 AM

In 1850, Giuseppe Verdi began composing an opera based on a contentious play that was banned in France. Victor Hugo’s Le Roi S’amuse featured a licentious ruler who did whatever he wanted, including seducing women and killing their husbands, and who did so without worrying about any consequences.

But Verdi’s opera was not complete fiction. The title character in Rigoletto was based on a real jester, Nicolas Ferrial, called Triboulet, who lived from 1479 to 1536. The sumptuous Renaissance setting of the opera influenced the composer, as did music from that time period.

Collectio Musicorum (“Collection of Music”) presents highlights from Verdi’s opera alongside music of earlier composers, including Tromboncino, Monteverdi, Attaingnant, Sermisy, Gonzaga, Jannequin, Rossi, and others who are less well known, including the single surviving piece by the mysterious French composer Abel.

The performance takes place on Friday, May 17^th at 8 PM at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 120 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023. Admission is free. The church is accessible--there are no stairs between the performance space and the street.

This is a portrait of Triboulet, born Nicolas Ferrial, created c. 1550 by Jean Clouet.

Opening Concert of the New 2018 Season

0 comments Posted by Collectio Musicorum at 12:32 PM

Join the musicians of Collectio Musicorum on Friday, October 12th at 8 PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Church for a most unusual concert of music by composers who have one thing in common--their names start with the letter P.

Perotin, Piero, Pelissier, and Pergolesi are just some of the composers represented. As with most Collectio concerts, the bulk of the music has never been heard in the US before. Included on program is a short opera by Purcell based on a biblical excerpt.

The church is located at 122 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023 and the concert is free.

Spring 2018 Concert in Manhattan

0 comments Posted by Collectio Musicorum at 7:47 PM

The musicians of Collectio Musicorum will present a concert on Friday, May 18th at 8 PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Church on West 69th Street. Also entitled "Dufay and Friends," it will contain some of the same music performed on the recent Staten Island concert, but will also include additional works, such as pieces by Pierre Fontaine, Robert Morton, and the sole surviving work by the elusive Magister Gulielmus. Admission is free.

Dufay and Friends -- Music from the Renaissance and Beyond

0 comments Posted by Collectio Musicorum at 6:54 PM

Collectio Musicorum is a participant in an upcoming exciting concert -- Dufay and Friends - Music from the Renaissance and Beyond. It is a concert in memory of Dr. Ronald Cross, former professor of music at Wagner College and founder of that school's Collegium Musicum. It will feature the musicians of Collectio Musicorum performing music by Dufay and Binchois. Then, the chamber singers of Wagner College, under the direction of Dr. Roger Wesby, will sing a variety of pieces from all time periods. After this, these groups will be joined by friends and alumni of Dr. Cross in a variety of pieces from the Renaissance. It will conclude with some works by Josquin -- Dr. Cross' favorite composer.

The concert takes place at Eltingville Lutheran Church on Staten Island. It is located at 300 Genesee Avenue, within walking distance of the Eltingville train station. The concert is free and starts at 7 PM. For further information, or to participate, call 917 796 6112.

The Dream of the Rood

0 comments Posted by Collectio Musicorum at 4:09 PM

Collectio Musicorum, in conjunction with The American Theatre of Actors, is presenting a theatrical version of the medieval poem The Dream of the Rood. It will run for ten performances from March 21st through April 1st.

Composed in the 8th Century, the poem tells the story of the crucifixion from the point of view of the cross. It is the first dream poem in English literature.

The production features medieval English music, including Sarum chant from the 11th century.

For more details, see the show's website -- Dream of the Rood

You may support this show's entry in the Innovative Theatre Awards, by voting for it. Follow this link: Innovative Theatre Awards--vote for this show

Update on October 20th Concert

0 comments Posted by Collectio Musicorum at 9:14 PM

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

Home

Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom )

Blogger Template by Blogcrowds