Sunday December 4, 7:00 PM
Mother of God Church
119 West Sixth Street, Covington KY

ideo est summa benedictio in feminea forma
quia deus factus est homo in dulcissima et beata virgine
—hildegard von bingen

the highest blessing rests upon the female form
because God became human in the sweetest and most beautiful Virgin

Enjoy Cincinnati Camerata’s annual Marian concert in a visually beautiful, aurally spectacular space. Featuring works by Grieg, Josquin, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Britten, and Tavener.

$12.00 at the door (suggested donation)
For more information, please contact Penny Schenk at 513-941-5088.

Brett Scott is Assistant Professor of Ensembles and Conducting at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, where he directs the select CCM Chorale and teaches conducting and literature at the graduate and undergraduate level. Dr. Scott’s previous position was at the University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music, where he taught undergraduate and graduate conducting, and directed the University of Rochester Glee Clubs and Chamber Singers.

Originally from Canada, he has received national broadcast as a conductor in that country. An acknowledged expert on and advocate for contemporary choral music, Brett has lectured at regional and national conventions in the United States and Canada. He has published articles in the Choral Journal, American Choral Review, Anacrusis and the Research Memorandum Series, and conducted several regional, national, and world premieres. He has recently been appointed editor of the Research Memorandum Series, published by Chorus America. Brett received his Doctor of Music Arts at the College Conservatory of Music in 2002, and currently lives in Cincinnati with his wife Krista and children Aedhan, Colum and Kenna.

Marian Concert

Sunday December 4, 7:00 PM
Mother of God Church
Sixth Street, Covington KY

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Spring Concert

Silent Auction and Wine Tasting

Sunday April 29, 4:00 pm
Mt. Auburn Presbetyrian Church
103 Wm. Howard Taft Rd, Cincinnati OH

To schedule an audition please go to http://cincinnaticamerata.pleasebringit.com/public/EbYBixJaIAY to sign up for a date and time.

Available dates are as follows:

1. T 9/13 : 7-8:30
2. T 9/20 : 7-7:45
3. T 9/27 : 7-7:45

If none of these dates work, please call 703-3309. Please prepare a short art song, theater song, or even a hymn that will show off your voice!

The Cincinnati Camerata appointed Portuguese composer and conductor Gonçalo Lourenço (b. 1979, Lisbon, Portugal) as the new Interim Director in January 2011. Mr. Lourenço founded both the Odyssea Choir and the Coro da Universidade Lusófona in 2004, conducting both of them until 2009. He is currently a second-year graduate student in the Masters of Choral Conducting program at CCM, working with Dr. Earl Rivers, Dr.Brett Scott, and Dr. Elmer Thomas.

Commissions of Mr. Lourenço’s music include The Allarya Chonicles for Small Orchestra (based on the fantasy books of Felipe Faria and performed by the Young Musicians Orchestra of Iceland) and Four Christmas Motets (for Maestro J.D. Goddard and the Mastersingers of Ohio).

For more information about Mr. Lourenço, visit him on the web at http://www.myspace.com/gonacalolourenco.

Robert Paterson of New York City is the winner of the 2010 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition with his setting of Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (text by Mary Frye). The panel chose this work, from his cycle Eternal Reflections, for its expressive choral writing, text painting and imaginatively beautiful textures. It will be premiered at the Camerata concert on May 15th 2011 at 4 pm at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church [map] in Cincinnati. The concert will also feature a wine tasting and silent auction to benefit the Camerata. More information about Mr. Paterson’s work can be found on his website at http://www.robpaterson.com.

A statement from Mr. Paterson about the work:
Eternal Reflections consists of settings of the poems A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz, Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary E. Frye, the latter being performed this evening. Mary E. Frye was a housewife and florist who became best known as the author of this poem. According to an article in the London Times, “Frye had never written any poetry before 1932, when she and her husband had a young German Jewish girl, Margaret Schwarzkopf, staying with them. According to Frye, their guest had been concerned about her mother, who was ill in Germany, but she had been warned not to return home because of increasing anti-Semitic unrest. When her mother died, the heartbroken young woman told Frye that she never had the chance to ‘stand by my mother’s grave and shed a tear.’” Although many versions of this uncopyrighted poem exist, the version used in this setting is the one Frye claimed as definitive before she died.

The son of two visual artists, Robert Paterson’s music is often inspired by nature, visual art, machines and American icons. He has been described in the press as “one of the major contenders in American music.” Paterson has received performances in the United States and abroad by many outstanding ensembles, including the Louisville Orchestra, Russian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, New York New Music Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, California EAR Unit, Ensemble Aleph and at the June in Buffalo Festival. His many awards include a Copland Award, the Brian Israel Prize, the Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition and twice winning the ASCAP Young Composer’s Award.

In 2011, Paterson will receive the Composer of the Year Award from the Classical Recording Foundation for his album, The Book of Goddesses. From 2009-2012, he is the Music Alive composer-in-residence with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, sponsored by Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras. The residency will culminate in a commission for a major new work for orchestra and chorus. Other recent honors include winning the Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition, the Copland Award, Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition, Brian Israel Prize, two ASCAP Young Composer Awards, and grants from Meet The Composer, the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum and ASCAP, as well as fellowships to Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

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In addition, the panel announced four finalists for special mention (listed alphabetically): Robert Campbelle, of Bristol, Virginia, was selected for his melodic setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”). Israeli composer Gilad Cohen, of Princeton, New Jersey, received commendation for his Hebrew setting from the Song of Songs, Al Mishkavi Baleylot. The jury was impressed by the textures of The Light of Common Day, a setting from Wordsworth by Shawn Crouch of Miami, Florida. They also singled out Alan Shockley, of Lakewood, California, for his peje iesus je, an ancient Coptic Christian text.

We were extremely pleased to find such tremendous talent among the entries, which came from Europe, Asia and the Middle East in addition to the US. Our goal is to attract and encourage the very best in choral music, and the standard of work this year was the highest we have seen. We eagerly look forward to what next year will bring.

This year the jury included Chris Miller (Director Emeritus of the Cincinnati Camerata), Philip Koplow, (Professor Emeritus of composition and theory at Northern Kentucky University), Beth Troendly (pianist and organist), Gonçalo Lourenço (the Camerata’s new Interim Conductor from Setúbal, Portugal) and Nancy Arnest (Cincinnati choral singer).

We hope to see you on May 15th 2011 at 4 pm at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church [map] in Cincinnati for the premiere of Mr. Paterson’s fine work!

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Richard Arnest
Secretary and Steward, The Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition

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Marian & Other Sacred Repertoire

A Spotless Rose – Herbert Howells
Angelus ad virginem – 14th century hymn
Advent Carols: Annunciation Carol/The Visitation to Elizabeth/Meditations of Mary – Robert Campbelle
Ave Maria – 12th century chant
Ave maris stella – 9th century chant
Ave maris stella – Javier Busto
Ave maris stella – Trond Kverno
Ave Maria – David Conte
Ave Maria – Anton Bruckner
Ave Maria – Josquin des Prez
Ave Maria – Palestrina
Ave Maria – Robert Parsons
Betelehemu – Via Olatunji
Blessed Be That Maid Mary – English traditional
Ecce! Virgo concipiet – Jan Sweelinck
Festival Te Deum – Benjamin Britten
The Holly and the Ivy – English trad.
Hymn to the Virgin – Benjamin Britten
Hymne a la vierge – Villette
Magnificat – J.S. Bach
Magnificat – Robert Campbelle
Magnificat – Claussen
Magnificat – Charles V. Stanford
Magnificat – Igor Stravinsky
Magnificat! – Peter Morabito
Nativitos – David B. Smith
Nova, Nova – 15th century carol
Nowell, Nowell, Tidings True – 15th century carol
Rejoice in the Lamb – Benjamin Britten
Salve Regina – Orlandus Lassus
Te Deum Laudamus – Robert Campbelle
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme – J. S. Bach

French repertoire

Au joly jeu – Clement Janequin
Il est bel et bon – Pierre Passereau
French Choruses from The Lark – Leonard Bernstein
Les chansons des roses – Morten Lauridsen
Me mere m’envoit au marchet – Peter Morabito
Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orleans – Claude Debussy

Tall Stacks & Regional Repertoire

The Boatman Dance – adapt. Aaron Copland
Deep River – trad. spiritual
The Erie Canal – arr. Chris Miller
On the Lovely Ohio – trad. river song
On the Ohio – arr. John Coates Jr.
The Gift to Be Simple – Shaker tune, arr. Bob Chilcott
Soar Away/Fulfillment/Present Joys – from The Sacred Harp

Works by Friends of the Camerata

Alleluia – Andrew Duncan
Alleluia – Steve McManaman (2002 Camerata composition contest winner)
April Showers, Gentle Showers – Charles Lauterbach
Cecilia – David B. Smith
Incarnation (All Flesh is Grass) – Rick Sowash (1999 Camerata composition contest winner)
Rainy Day – arr. Dana Randall
Requiem for the Extinct – David B. Smith
Shout Joyfully to God/I Will Extol Thee/Waters of Rest – Doug Frank
The Spring – John Harrison (1998 Camerata composition contest winner)
Spirituals & Other Great Music
A Maze (with Grace) – Thomas Albert
All Ye Who Music Love – Baldassare Donato
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit – arr. William Dawson
Four Pastorales – Cecil Effinger
Hymn to St. Cecilia – Benjamin Britten
If Music Be the Food of Love – Jean Belmont
Italian Salad – Genee
I’ve Been ‘buked – arr. Hall Johnson
Liebeslieder Walzer – Johannes Brahms
Live a-Humble – trad. Spiritual
Masterpiece – Paul Drayton
Missa Gaia – Libby Larsen
O Music, Thou Most Lovely Art – Johann Jeep
The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land) – Aaron Copland
Reincarnations – Samuel Barber
Shoot, False Love, I Care Not – Thomas Morley
Soon Ah Will Be Done – arr. William Dawson
Wedding Cantata – Daniel Pinkham

Encores

In virtute tua domine – Grzegorz Gorczycki
Walking on the Green Grass – Michael Hennigan
Beati quorum via – Charles V. Stanford
The Blue Bird – Charles V. Stanford
Cakes and Ale – Henry Purcell
Contrapunctus I (from Die Kunst der Fuge) – J. S. Bach
I Love My Love – Gustav Holst
Lebenslust – Franz Schubert
Long Time Ago – Aaron Copland
My Sweetheart’s Like Venus – Gustav Holst

Sunday, May 15, 2011 4:00 p.m.
Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church
103 William Howard Taft Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45219

$12.00 at the door (Suggested donation – includes wine, and snacks after the concert!)
For more information, please contact Penny Schenk at 513-941-5088.