Location: Battell Chapel
New Haven, CT 06511
Open to: General public
Admission: Free
Description: Music of Bach, Telemann, Victoria, Kyr, Masko, and Willcocks. An Advent Concert conducted by Marguerite L. Brooks withSoloists from the graduate voice program, James Taylor, director:
- Lisa Rautenberg, violin
- Ellen Higham, viola
- Marjorie Shansky, flute
- Olav Van Hezewijk, oboe
- Andrew Grenci, clarinet
- Kenneth Tedeschi, trumpet
- Mihai Marica, cello
- Stephen Rapp, organ
- Martin Jean, organ
Robert Kyr’s The Annunciation was commissioned by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music from the Robert Baker Commissioning Fund for Sacred Music, and is dedicated to Marguerite Brooks and the Yale Camerata. According to the composer, “the six movements of the work tell the story of the Annunciation by the angel Gabriel to Virgin Mary that she will conceive a child through the Holy Spirit and the “power of the Most High” (Luke 1: 35). The text for the cantata is based on Old and New Testament sources [Isaiah (7: 14; 35: 5-8; 64: 1, 4) and Luke (1: 28-37, 46-53)], as well as excerpts from two Nativity Hymns (II and XII) by the 4th century theologian St. Ephrem the Syrian.”
The program also includes two settings of O Magnum Mysterium, one by Victoria and one by J.J. Masko; Bach’s beloved cantata Wachet auf! and the Dona nobis pacem from the Mass in B Minor; and a concerto of Telemann. The concert will conclude, in its annual tradition, with the Willcocks arrangement of Goss’s See, amid the Winter’s Snow, with the Camerata joined by the audience.