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I SING OF A MAIDEN Patrick Hadley
REGINA COELI
SANCTA MARIA MATER DEI W. A. Mozart
AVE MARIA Robert Parsons
AVE MARIA Anton Bruckner
AVE MARIA Imant Raminsch
MARY'S MAGNIFICAT Andrew Carter
MAGNIFICAT IN D J.S. Bach
Matthew Larkin CONDUCTOR
OCS Chamber Symphony
Leslie Fagan SOPRANO
Marion Newman MEZZO-SOPRANO
Scott Belluz COUNTER-TENOR
Nils Brown TENOR
Sean Watson BARITONE |
Advent, in the Christian calendar, brims over with a sense of great expectation! Tonight, we celebrate that special time of anticipation with songs of Mary, the well-spring of generation - "Nature's motherhood," as the poet Gerald Manley Hopkins says. Patrick Hadley's graceful motet for women's voices, and two bright-hearted adorations by Mozart, are followed by a tryptych of gorgeous Ave Marias, leading us to two very different interpretations of Mary's canticle of gladness: Andrew Carter's 20th century Mary's Magnificat is a delicate vignette of the Holy Maiden, J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D, a supreme example of the genius of the High Baroque. |
