Concerts

Concert Season 2022 – 2023

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Sunday, October 30, 2022, 4:00 pm
Rest in Peace: Music for All Saints

and All Souls Days

a concert directed by Arthur Lewis and Barry Torres

Antoine Brumel, Missa pro defunctis

(Requiem)

and motets by Byrd, Lasso, de Victoria, and Palestrina

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church, DeWitt
$20 (seniors $15, under-30 $10, students $5, children free)

Schola Cantorum dedicates this concert to the memory of Clare Fewtrell, who died October 7. Clare sang with Schola in years prior to 2009, and at Summer Workshops throughout the years, and made the trip from Ithaca to attend most Schola concerts of recent years. We miss her.

The Brumel is a change from the program previously posted.

[after Wikipedia:] Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – c. 1512) was one of the most influential composers of his generation.

He was at the center of changes taking place in European music around 1500, when the previous style of highly differentiated voice parts was giving way to a more smoothly flowing polyphony of equal parts. His Missa pro defunctis, a late work, is notable as the first polyphonic requiem setting to include the Dies irae. The piece employs alternatim polyphony, in which sections of plainchant alternate with sections of polyphony. It is one of the earliest polyphonic requiems to survive; only Johannes Ockeghem's Requiem is earlier.

Sunday, December 18, 4:00 pm
Nowell: English Music for the Season

for Voices and Viols

Anthems and carols by Byrd, Gibbons, and Tompkins,

and dances by Holborne

Sunday, February 19, 2023, 4:00 pm

Twilight of the Medieval Motet

Works by Ciconia, Dunstable, and Du Fay

Saturday, June 10, 7:30 pm
Madrigal

Favorite Italian madrigals and their English derivatives,

with dances for instruments, for your fa-la-la-ing pleasure

Summer Workshop

July 27-30, 2023