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CHAMBER ORCHESTRA & CHORUS |
Kenneth Knight, Musical Director
John Onstad, Executive Director |
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A Commemoration of All Saints’/All Souls’ Days
Saturday, October 31 at 7:00 PM
Sunday, November 1 at 4:00 PM
St. Francis Auditorium
107 W. Palace Ave.,
Santa Fe, NM 87501 |
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~ Program ~
Lord, Let Me Know Mine End. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maurice Greene (1696 – 1755)
Psalm 39 provided the text for this serene and sincere anthem by English Baroque composer Maurice Greene, a contemporary of Händel. The psalmist acknowledges the brevity and uncertainty of life but suggests that the recognition of this is the first step toward wisdom. |
Monika Cosson-Sheppard & Sarah Weiler, soloists
Cantata: God’s Time is Best (Actus tragicus), BWV 106 . . . . . . . . .J. S. Bach (1685 – 1750)
A work of ingenious craft and stunning beauty, this funeral (or “mourning”) cantata by the 22-year-old Bach clothes the contemplative biblical text in a highly pictorial musical language supported by the most gentle and transparent of orchestrations. With this work the young composer, in a single stroke, left his contemporaries far behind. |
Sarah Weiler, Robert Thorpe, & Doyle Preheim, soloists
Song of the Spirits over the Waters, D. 714 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Set for low strings and male voices, this is Schubert’s fifth and final setting of an evocative text by Goethe. Schubert was a master at finding musical means to suggest the movement of water, but here he goes much further in crafting music that matches the vivid imagery of nature’s raw power in Goethe’s masterful poem. |
Requiem, Op. 48 (original chamber orchestration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)
Arguably the most beloved of the many settings of the Requiem text, Fauré’s version is small-scaled, intimate, and gentle, with none of the bombast of other well-known settings. (In the words of Beethoven, “memories of the dead require no hubbub.”) The work has been described both as a “lullaby of death” and “a little taste of heaven.” |
Karliz DeMarco, Javier Ortiz, & Kathie Jarrett, soloists
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General
admission tickets
are $35 (students with ID, $20).
Call box office at 438-6581
Monday--Friday 9:00 am- 5.00 pm
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reserve tickets in advance |
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These concerts are made possible in part by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, the 1% Lodger Tax and by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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