Location: St. Bede’s Chapel
270 Lake Ave.
Greenwich, CT 06830
Open to: General public
Admission: Free
Description: Marguerite L. Brooks, conductor
Patrick Murray principal assistant conductor
Lisa Rautenberg violin
Debby Tyler violin
Ellen Higham viola
Guy Fishman violoncello
A new work for mixed chorus and string quartet, The Tree of Life by Robert Sirota, will be premiered.
Program:
I
Plainsong | Alma redemptoris mater
Anonymous, 13th or 14th century | Angelus ad virginem
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) | Bogoroditse Djevo
II
William Byrd (1540–1623) | Civitas sancti tui
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525–1594) | Super flumina Babylonis
Tawnie Olson (b. 1974) | Spring and Fall
III
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Sicut cervus
Patrick Murray (b. 1990) | At thy voice
Traditional, arr. John Maynard (b. 1925) | A tree once grew in Galilee
Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987) | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
IV
Arvo Pärt | Morning Star
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) | Elegischer Gesang
Melchior Franck (c. 1579–1639) | Revelation Motet
V
Ludwig van Beethoven | Cavatina, Op. 130
VI
Robert Sirota (b. 1949) | Tree of Life (world premiere)