2012-2013 Tenth Anniversary Concert Season
This year we celebrate our landmark Tenth Anniversary Season with a festive fundraiser, an exciting concert season at our Boston and Cambridge homes, and collaborations with esteemed musical partners throughout New England. We look forward to welcoming you to enjoy this wonderful season with us!
Special Event
Tenth Anniversary Fundraiser
The Italian Madrigals of Heinrich Schütz
Saturday, September 22 at 4pm • Taylor House in Jamaica Plain
You are cordially invited to join Exsultemus artists, supporters, and fans for a lively afternoon of food, drink, company, and song as we celebrate the opening of our 2012–2013 tenth anniversary concert season. Please join us as we celebrate our many accomplishments since our first performances in 2003, and toast our bright future in consummate style.
Shannon Canavin & Brenna Wells, sopranos
Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano
Owen McIntosh, tenor
Graham Wright, bass-baritone
Tickets: $100 per person general admission
Kindly reserve your place by Wednesday, September 19.
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2012–2013 Concerts
Celebremos el Niño
Christmas Villancicos from Spain and the New World
Sunday, December 9 at 3pm • First Lutheran Church of Boston
Once one of the most popular poetic and musical forms of the Iberian Peninsula and the New World, villancicos now most commonly refer to an extensive array of Christmas carols derived from early dance forms. Often infused with the lively rhythms and vivid imagery of native cultures, the Baroque villancico is a joyful celebration of the holiday season. Don’t miss this delightful program of Christmas villancicos from Spain and the New World by Juan de Araujo, Roque Jacinto de Chavarría, Diego de Casseda, and Juan García de Zéspedes performed by the acclaimed musicians of Exsultemus!
Shannon Canavin & Shari Alise Wilson, sopranos
Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano
Gerrod Pagenkopf, countertenor
Mark Sprinkle, tenor
David McFerrin, bass-baritone
Colleen McGary-Smith, cello
Andrus Madsen, organ
Tickets: $35, $25, $15 reserved seating ($5 off for students & seniors)
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The Glorious Revolution
Music from the English and French Courts of James II
Tuesday, March 5 at 7:30pm • First Lutheran Church of Boston
RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY 9 & 10 DUE TO WINTER STORM NEMO
Tickets to the February 9 & 10 performances will be honored on March 5;
to reserve your seats, please call 857-998-0219 or bring your original ticket (s)
to the concert on March 5 to return for new tickets.
Inspired by England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, this exciting original program features works from the splendor of James II's Whitehall Catholic chapel in England with music by Henry Purcell, John Blow, and William Child for his 1685 coronation, a sonata by Gottfried Finger, as well as hitherto unknown and unpublished works by James II’s Italian maestro di cappella Innocenzo Fede, who followed James II to St. Germain, France following the king’s ousting by William of Orange in 1688.
Shannon Canavin & Shari Alise Wilson, sopranos
Gerrod Pagenkopf, countertenor
Charles Blandy, tenor
Sumner Thompson, bass-baritone
Marika Holmqvist & Katharina Radlberger, violins
Emily Rideout, viola
Colleen McGary-Smith, cello
Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
Tickets: $35, $25, $15 reserved seating ($5 off for students & seniors)
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Night Games of Siena
An Italian Madrigal Comedy by Orazio Vecchi
Saturday, May 18 at 8pm • University Lutheran Church in Cambridge
Sunday, May 19 at 3pm • First Lutheran Church of Boston
To close our Tenth Anniversary Season, we have scheduled a rare modern performance of Orazio Vecchi's delightful Le veglie di Siena (Night Games of Siena). Vecchi composed around the time when the Italian madrigal was becoming a virtuosic endeavor and the experiments of the Florentines were planting the seeds of opera. His quirky musical tastes and sharp wit have been rather neglected by modern scholars. Published in Venice in 1604, Vecchi's vivid work portrays three nights of literary and musical games organized in Siena by the members of the Academy of the Intronati with musical caricatures, tongue twisters, a thrilling hunt for the rogue Cupid, and beautiful madrigals of various humors. You won't want to miss this wonderful evening of music!
Shannon Canavin & Shari Alise Wilson, sopranos
Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Anderson & Owen McIntosh, tenors
Paul Guttry, bass-baritone
Tickets: $35, $25, $15 reserved seating ($5 off for students & seniors)
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Special Collaborations
Vespers of Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Exsultemus and Newton Baroque
Saturday, September 29 at 8pm • Second Church in Newton
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656–1746) was a Bohemian born composer who spent over 60 years working for the court of Sachsen-Lauenburg. His 1701 Vespers for SATB chorus, strings, and continuo shows displays 18th-century South German Baroque splendor at its best.
Tickets: $30 general admission ($5 off for students & seniors)
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Handel’s Messiah Part I
Musica Sacra featuring soloists from Exsultemus
Saturday, December 15 at 7pm • First Church Congregational in Cambridge
Hear the Christmas section of this masterpiece in the intimate setting of First Church, Cambridge, as Handel originally scored it, followed by carols and the Hallelujah Chorus for all to sing.
Brenna Wells, soprano
Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Anderson, tenor
Ulysses Thomas, bass-baritone
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Dates, times, locations, and programs are subject to change.
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