2016 HIGHLIGHTS
New York Philharmonic: Handel's Messiah
December 17, 2016 | 7:30PM
December 16, 2016 | 2PM
December 15, 2016 | 7:30PM
December 14, 2016 | 7:30PM
December 13, 2016 | 7:30PM
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, Conductor
G.F. Handel: Messiah
Christina Landshamer, Soprano
Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-Soprano
Matthew Polenzani, Tenor
John Relyea, Bass-Baritone
Concert Chorale of New York, James Bagwell, Director
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1617/handels-messiah
Service of Advent Lessons & Carols
December 04, 2016 | 6pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard Lloyd, Grayston Ives, Philip Ledger, Andrew Carter and others.
Hymns include, "Lo, he comes with clouds descending" (descant by John Scott), "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" (arr. Andrew Carter), and "Hark, a thrilling voice is sounding" (descant by Alan Gray).
Organ Repertoire including "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," BWV 645 and "Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich," BWV 605, of J.S. Bach, Brahms' "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" and Prelude on "Veni Emmanuel" by Edward Bairstow.
Camerata Pacifica
November 20, 2016 | 3pm
Temple Beth Torah, Ventura, CA
November 18, 2016 | 7:30PM
Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA
November 17, 2016 | 8PM
Zipper Hall, the Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA
November 16, 2016 | 7:30PM
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Bach - 2 Part Invention in F Major
Bach - Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1038
Carter - Sonata for Flute Oboe Cello & Harpsichord
Dutilleux - Les Citations for Harpsichord Percussion Oboe & Bass
Bach - Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903
Andy Akiho - 21 for Marimba & Cello
Naoko Hishinuma - On a Full Moon Night
Caroline Shaw - Boris Kerner for Cello & Flower Pots
James Austin Smith, Oboe
Paolo Bordignon, Harpsichord
Ji Hye Jung, Principal Percussion
Timothy Eckert, Principal Double Bass
Adrian Spence, Artistic Director & Principal Flute
Ani Aznavoorian, Principal Cello
Choral Evening prayer
with orchestra
November 06, 2016 | 4pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
New York Philharmonic: Kavakos plays Bach
October 22, 2016 | 8PM
October 21, 2016 | 11am
October 20, 2016 | 7:30PM
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Bach: Violin Concerto in D Minor (reconstructed) BWV 1052
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
Schumann: Symphony No. 2
New York Philharmonic Young people's concert
October 22, 2016 | 2PM
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Young People’s Concert — The Ages of Music: Baroque
Program to include music by J.S. Bach, Handel, Purcell, and Vivaldi.
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1617/young-peoples-concert-Oct-22
Choral Evensong
October 09, 2016 | 4pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Richard Shephard: Preces and Responses
John Goss: Psalm 48
WIlliam Walton: "Jubilate Deo"
George Dyson: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D
Choral Evening Prayer for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
October 4, 2016 | 7:30pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston TX
Repertoire in honor of St. Francis, including Francis Poulenc's "Quatre Prières de Saint François d’Assise"
Choral Evensong
September 11, 2016 | 4pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston TX
Bernard Rose: Preces and Responses
C. Hylton Stewart: Psalm 61
Herbert Sumsion: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G
Henry Balfour Gardiner: "Evening Hymn"
George Oldroyd: Improvisation No. 2
Jehan Alain: Litanies
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
August 10, 2016 | 7:30pm
August 09, 2016 | 7:30pm
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langree, conductor
Richard Goode, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 1
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter" K.551
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
August 03, 2016 | 7:30pm
August 02, 2016 | 7:30pm
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Thierry Fischer, conductor
Martin Helmchen, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 59 in A Major, "Fire"
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K.503
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K.550
Residency at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
July 11 to 17, 2016
Edinburgh, Scotland
St. Paul's Choir
Paolo Bordignon, Director of Music & Organist
Ken Coleman, Assistant Organist
Anglican Chant Psalms from John Scott's "The Anglican Psalter"
Monday, July 11 5:30pm CHORAL EVENSONG
Responses Bernard Rose
Psalms: 59, 60, 61
Service in C - Charles Villiers Stanford
Pilgrim’s Hymn — Stephen Paulus
Tuesday, July 12 5:30pm CHORAL EVENSOG
Responses: Bernard Rose
Psalms: 65, 66, 67
Service in F — Harold Friedell
Sing we merrily — Sidney Campbell
Wednesday, July 13 5:30pm CHORAL EVENSONG
Responses:David Ashley White
Psalms: 69, 70
Service in A — Charles Villiers Stanford
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Thursday, 14 July 5:30pm CHORAL EUCHARIST
Gloria: Cantus Missae — Rheinberger
Beati Quorum Via — Charles Villiers Stanford
Sanctus & Benedictus: Rheinberger
Agnus Dei:Rheinberger
Friday 15 July 5:30pm CHORAL EVENSONG
sung by St. Paul’s Choir Chamber Choir
Responses: William Smith, with Robert Stone "Lord’s Prayer"
Psalm: 78
The Fifth Service — Thomas Tomkins
Ego flos campi — Jacobus Clemens Non Papa
Sunday July 17 10:30 CATHEDRAL EUCHARIST
Gloria: Cantus Missae — Rheinberger
Sanctus & Benedictus: Rheinberger
Agnus Dei: Rheinberger
Ave Verum — Colin Mawby
Voluntary: Cortege Academique - MacMillan
Sunday, July 17 3:30pm CHORAL EVENSONG
O Sing Joyfully — Adrian Batten
Responses: David Ashley White
Psalms: 89
St. Paul’s Service — Herbert Howells
Thou, O God, art praised in Sion — Malcolm Boyle
Voluntary: Psalm-Prelude Set II no. 3 — Howells
Choral Evensong with orchestra
June 26, 2016 | 4pm
June 23, 2016 | 1:30 & 3:40pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A Major - Charles Villiers Stanford
Preces and Responses - David Ashley White
Te Deum in B-flat - Charles Villiers Stanford
Offered as part of the American Guild of Organists National Convention
New York Philharmonic: Vivaldi's Four Seasons
June 04, 2016 | 8PM
June 03, 2016 | 8PM
June 02, 2016 | 8PM
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
New York Philharmonic
Frank Huang, leader/violin
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Grieg: The Last Spring
Piazolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1516/vivaldi-the-four-seasons
Recording:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vivaldi-the-four-seasons/id1161536455
Choral Evensong for Pentecost
May 16, 2016 | 4pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, St. Paul's Service - Herbert Howells
Preces and Responses - Bernard Rose
All Bach program
with Sir James Galway
April 03, 2016 | 3pm
Parlance Chamber Concerts, Ridgewood, NJ
Sir James Galway & Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes
Ying Fang, soprano
Benjamin Beilman, Sean Lee, Danbi Um, violins
Mark Holloway, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Timothy Cobb, bass; Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Flute Sonata in E, BWV 1034
Jesus soll mein erstes Wort from Cantata 171
Sheep Safely Graze, from Cantata 208
Orchestral Suite in B minor, BWV 1067
Ich folge dich gleichfals from St. John Passion
Adagio & Presto, solo Violin Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001
Air on the G String (from Suite in D, BWV 1068)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049
http://www.parlancechamberconcerts.org/2015-2016-season/april-3-2016/
Organ Duo Recital
with Ken Cowan
March 10, 2016 | 12:15pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Festive Overture in A Major, Op. 96 - Dimitri Shostakovich
“Fantasy and Fugue on a Theme by Goudimel"
for Organ Duet, Op. 62 (2011) - Rachel Laurin
Andante with Five Variations, K. 501 - W. A. Mozart
Toccata from Symphonie Concertante, Op. 81 - Joseph Jongen
Choral Evensong
February, 28, 2016 | 4pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in F - Harold Friedell
Preces & Responses - Gerre Hancock
Psalm 63 - Ivor Atkins
Like as the hart - Herbert Howells
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind - C.H.H. Parry, arr. David Wilcocks
Psalm-Prelude, Set 1, Nos. 1 & 2 - Herbert Howells
A Celebration of Rossini & Music for the Leap Year
February 18, 2016 | 12:15pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Congratulamini videte omnes - Alessandro Striggio
Gioachino Rossini:
Kyrie from Petite Messe Solenelle
Overture to La Gazza Ladra (arr. for piano 4 hands)
Quartetto Pastorale: L’Asia in Faville
Il Carnevale di Venezia
Toast pour un nouvel an
Even such is time - Bob Chilcott
About the Program
St. Paul’s Chamber Choir offers a program, in this leap year, of music related to February 29 and a meditation on the passing of time.
The concert opens with "Congratulamini videte omnes" of Alessandro Striggio, famed for writing a Mass for 60 voices. The work is a contrafacta, a madrigal "remade" into a sacred motet. In this case, salacious poetry about amorous conquests has been remodeled into a paean sung to the mother of God: "Mary, virgin and childbearing, for out of you is the rising of light eternal, which sheds light on all the earth." Striggio died February 29, 1592.
Gioachino Rossini was born February 29, 1792 and, as Rossini scholar Philip Gossett writes, "No composer in the first half of the 19th century enjoyed the measure of prestige, wealth, popular acclaim or artistic influence that belonged to Rossini. His contemporaries recognized him as the greatest Italian composer of his time." His achievements in opera caused the work of his predecessors to be forgotten, his contemporaries, Bellini and Donizetti, worked under his shadow, and even Beethoven, piqued by his international recognition, resorted to snide remarks about him. By the age of 37 Rossini had written over 40 operas and, after completing Guillaume Tell, he retired to Italy, dedicating his life to enjoying food. He composed hardly at all during this period before returning to Paris in 1855. Here his urge to compose returned, and he wrote piano pieces, songs, and small ensembles, including the Petite Messe Solennelle (1863). He referred to them as Péchés de vieillesse ("sins of old age"); they are characterized by wit, parody, grace, and sentiment.
St. Paul’s Chamber Choir will sing the Kyrie from this work, accompanied by Wesley Ducote (piano) and Ken Coleman (organ). Paolo Bordignon and Wesley Ducote will perform a 4-hand piano arrangement La Gazza Ladra ("The Thieving Magpie") Overture before the Chamber Choir returns to offer a Pastoral diversion, a lively piece set at the famed Carnival of Venice, and a delightful toast to good living, good times, and good luck.
The program will conclude with "Even such is time," with poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh set to music by Bob Chilcott. Chilcott received choral training at King’s College, Cambridge, first as a boy chorister (he performed the Pie Jesu of Fauré's Requiem on the 1967 recording under David Willcocks) and then as a choral scholar. He later sang tenor with the King’s Singers for 12 years. He is highly sought-after as a choral conductor, composer, and arranger.
CHORAL EVENSONG for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul
January, 24, 2016 | 4pm
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, TX
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D - George Dyson
Holy is the true light - William H. Harris
Preces and Responses - David Ashley White
Composed for St. Paul's Choir
Organ music of Herbert Sumsion
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on Tour
January 12 through 16, 2016
Cartagena, Columbia
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on tour, performing at the Festival Internacional de Musica, Cartagena, Columbia
Short film about Orpheus residency at the Festival Internacional de Musica