I continue to direct and cantor for the -- my main early music outlet.
I'll be singing with the Ozark
Chamber Singers in a concert on November 7,
2001 at 7 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The program:
Gibbons O Lord, Increase My Faith Byrd Kyrie from Mass for Five Voices Byrd Gloria from Mass for Five Voices Tallis If Ye Love Me Victoria O Magnum Mysterium Tavener Song for Athene Byrd Sanctus from Mass for Five Voices Byrd Benedictus from Mass for Five Voices Byrd Agnus Dei from Mass for Five Voices Byrd Ave verum Corpus Cherwein Into Paradise Banchieri Jubilate Deo
Okay, again it is not all early music, but some of it is: I sang with the Ozark Chamber Singers in a concert on November 12, 2001 at 7 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The program:
Parry I was Glad Durufle Four Motets on Gregorian Themes Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer Thompson Alleluia Messiaen O sacrum convivium Victoria Vere Languores Boyle Thou O God Tavener Song for Athene
At 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 17, 2000 I was part of a classical guitar quartet performing Pachelbel's Canon in D for a wedding at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
On December 24th - 25th 1999, I chanted at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Eureka Springs, Arkansas for midnight mass. I chanted:
On April 22nd 1999 I sang bass in a performance of Haydn's Theresienmesse (Mass in B Flat) and Roland Carter's arrangment of "You Must Have That True Religion" (okay, not early music, but on the program) with the Concert Choir of the University of Arkansas at 8 p.m. at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
On April 21st 1999 I performed in a concert with Collegium Musicum 8 at p.m. in the Fine Arts Concert Hall of the University of Arkansas.
With Collegium Musicum I performed:
Anonymous, | O mitissima (Quant voi) - Virgo - Hec dies | voice |
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200), | "Domino (Clausula)" | (voice) |
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200), | "Clausula: Domino" | (tenor crumhorn) |
School of Notre Dame (c. 1250), | "Motet: Pucelete - Je languis - Domino" | (bass recorder, voice) |
Francis Pilkington, | "Look, Mistress Mine" | (vocal solo) |
Maddalena Casulana, | "Stavasi il mio bel Sol" | (soprano recorder) |
Maddalena Casulana, | "Morir non puo il mio cuore" | (voice (bass)) |
Francesca Caccini, | "Aria of the Shepherd" | (alto recorder) |
With the Gregorian Schola I performed:
On April 3rd 1999 I chanted "In paradisum" and "Chorus angelorum" at the funeral of Clell McClung at St. Elizabeth's Parish Center in Eureka Springs, Arkansas at 11 a.m.
On March 5th 1999 I performed in a concert of music by women composers for the 10th Annual Northwest Arkansas Women's Festival and Conference, 8 p.m.in the Fine Arts Concert Hall of the University of Arkansas.
With Collegium Musicum I performed:
Hildegard von Bingen, | "O rubor sanguinis" | (voice (solo)) |
Maddalena Casulana, | "Stavasi il mio bel Sol" | (soprano & tenor recorders) |
Maddalena Casulana, | "Morir non puo il mio cuore" | (voice (bass)) |
Francesca Caccini, | "Aria of the Shepherd" | (alto recorder) |
On February 3rd 1999 I performed at a "Medieval Feast of Fools." (7 p.m. at a private residence)
With Collegium Musicum, I performed:
Chant, | "Benedicamus Domino" | (solo voice) |
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200), | "Domino (Clausula)" | (voice) |
School of Notre Dame (c. 1250), | "Motet: Pucelete - Je languis - Domino" | (voice, drum) |
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200), | "Clausula: Domino" | (tenor crumhorn) |
With Rob Desbien from the Gregorian Schola, I chanted:
Maschera, | "Canzona" | (tenor recorder) |
Sermisy, | "O doulce amour" | (bass recorder) |
Dowland, | "Flow my tears" | (solo voice) |
Dowland, | "Lachrimae Antiquae" | (bass recorder) |
Dowland, | "Sir John Souch: His Galiard" | (bass recorder) |
See here for the chant part of the program.
We sang these pieces (some twice, in different locations):
Dowland, | "What if I never speed" |
Waelrant, | "Hard by a fountain" |
van der Muelen, | "Bowed down with pain and sorrow" |
Dowland, | "Fine knacks for ladies" |
di Lasso, | "O eyes of my beloved" |
Morley, | "April is in my Mistress' face" |
Dowland, | "Come again! Sweet love" |
Dowland, | "Now, O now, I needs must part" |
On December 12, 1995 at 7:30 in the Fine Arts Concert Hall at the University of Arkansas I sang (and played tambourine) in a performance of Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas."
Okay, I didn't have a big part; I was in the chorus. I did, however, have a small solo.
In 1996 I sang with the Collegium Musicum. The Collegium Musicum of the University of Arkansas, directed by Claire Detels, performed a Palestrina mass, "Dies Significatus." It was performed at St. Joseph's Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas (as a sacred concert) on Thursday, April 18, 1996 at 7:00 p.m. with the Gregorian Chant Schola of St. Joseph's chanting the ordinary. A second performance was on Sunday, April 21, 1996 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Concert Hall at the University of Arkansas (this time without the chant). In both cases recorders (and, at times, brass) accompanied the voices on the Palestrina.