Orchestra of the 17th Century
Michael Holmes, artistic director
w/ Ryan de Ryke, baritone

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Trois lecons de tenebres pour basse-taille

(Three "Tenebrae" Lessons for Baritone Voice and instruments:
Holy week music performed at the beginning of Lent)

This program begins O17's Charpentier Festival 2004, honoring the 300th
anniversary of the composer's death with an exquisite, introspective
setti= ng of the tenebrae (Lat.  "darkness") lessons, derived from a
Jewish tradition based on the book of Lamentations.  In the old Roman
Catholic church, these lessons were normally chanted during the Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of Holy Week while fifteen candles were extinguished.
This performance will make use of candles and the interplay between
lightness and darkness.

Performances:

March 13 - St. Paul's Episcopal, 815 E. Grace St., Richmond, VA, 8:00PM
March 14 - Saint Luke Catholic Church, 7001 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA,
3:00PM.  Pre-concert Lecture at 2:15 (McLean Performance only)
Guest lecturer: Dr. Carl Schmidt, professor of musicology, Towson
University.

Orchestra of the 17th Century with soloists: Barbara Hollinshead (soprano),
Sarah Berger (soprano), Sharon Barnum (alto), Tony Boutte (tenor), David
Brundage (bass), Nina Falk (violin), & Tina Chancey (viola da gamba)

The "Concerto-Aria Cantata"
(Lenten cantatas from Dresden and Lubeck)

Sunday, March 28, 3:00PM - Pre-concert lecture at 2:15PM
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Mary E. Frandsen*
Location: Saint Luke Catholic Church, 7001 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA
These concerts are part of the Saint Luke Music in McLean series

Program:

Vincenzo Albrici - Sinfonia a 6, Sperate in Deo, Cogita o homo
Christoph Bernhard - Ich sahe an alles Thun
Marco Giuseppe Peranda - O Jesu mi dulcissime
Dieterich Buxtehude - Four cantatas from Membra Jesu Nostri

*Mary E.  Frandsen (Professor of Musicology, University of Notre
Dame) is a specialist in the sacred repertoires of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.  She has published articles on the development
of the concerto-aria cantata, the patronage of Italian musicians in
northern Europe, worship as representation, the phenomenon of Italianita
in Dresden, and Heinrich Schutz's abiding interest in Italian musical
developments (the latter three to appear in 2004-05).  Her edition of
concerto-aria cantatas by Albrici and Peranda will be published in 2005
by the Standige Konferenz Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik in Sachsen,
Sachsen-Anhalt, und Thuringen, e.V., in the series Denkmaler Mitteldeutscher
Barockmusik.  She has recently completed a monograph on sacred music and
musical life at the court of Dresden in the mid-seventeenth century, for
which she received fellowship support from the NEH and the ACLS.  She
presently serves as Chair of the American Heinrich Schutz Society, and
is a member of the Board of Governors of the Society for Seventeenth
Century Music.

Admission for all concerts is $20.

For more information: 703-897-8990 or www.earlymusic.net/O17,
or email yours truly.

Bill H.