Yale Norfolk Choral Conducting Course Program 2012

The seventh annual Chamber Choir & Conducting Course at the Yale Summer School Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk, Connecticut, runs from August 12th to 18th this year.

There will be a choir of 24 from which 10 members have also been selected as conductors. They are learning the program below and the pieces they will each conduct at the concert will be assigned (in the pub over the road!) on the Thursday evening.

The instrumentalists will have been selected from the Music School and Conservatory students, participating in the chamber music festival throughout the summer. Jessica Petrus, our soprano soloist, is a graduate of the Yale Voice program in Early Music, Oratorio and Chamber Ensemble (musicians.yale.edu/jessica_petrus_soprano/Welcome//).

Our pianist is Lucas Wong (www.lucaswongpiano.com)

 

As always I will only conduct the new work specially written for the Festival – this year by Yale graduate composition student Loren Loiacono (www.lorencoiacono.com)

 

The concert is at 4:00 on Saturday, August 18th, in the Music Shed, Norfolk. (www.norfolkmusic.org/school/programs_choir_choral.htm)

 

Festival Program

Lieto Godea                                                     Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555-1612))      

            SATB/SATB

 

Peccantem me quotidie                                     Cristobal de Morales (c.1500-1553)

            SATB

 

Venite Populi, Venite                                       Mozart             (1756-1791)

           SATB/SATB, 2 violins, cello, bass, organ continuo

 

Lover’s Recantation                                         Thomas Arne   (1710-1778)

Jessica Petrus soprano; flute, strings, harpsichord continuo

{Recit:  The Kind Appointment Caelia Made

{Air:    To all the sex deceitful

{Recit:  Now Cecilia, from Mama got loose

{Air:    How engaging, How enduring            

 

Sehnsucht  Op. 112     Nr. 1                              Brahms (1833-1897)

            SATB, piano

 

Uri Tsafon (2002)                                            John Rommereim       

            SATB, string quartet & piano

 

The Awakening (2012) (world premiere)           Loren Loiacono          

            Jessica Petrus soprano, SATB

            flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, trombone, percussion, string quintet

 

Psalm 148 (2008)                                            Judith Weir

            SATB, trombone solo

 

Afro-American Fragments (2009)                      William Averitt

            Song for Billie Holliday

            Jessica Petrus soprano, SATB, piano four hands

 

Aesop’s Fables            ( 2008)                           Bob Chilcott

            The Hare and the Tortoise

            The Mountain in labour

            The Fox and the Grapes

            The North Wind and the Sun

            The Goose and the Swan

            SATB, piano