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CONVIVIUM·MUSICUMMichael Barrett, music director

Musica PoeticaRhetoric in Renaissance Music

In me transierunt irae tuae · Orlandus Lassus (1530/32–1594)

Ascendente Jesu · Giaches de Wert (1535–1596)

Commissa mea pavesco · Filipe de Magalhaes (c. 1571–1652)

Was betrübstu dich, meine Seele · Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630)

Circumdederunt me dolores mortis · Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590–1664)

Plaudite, psallite, jubilate Deo · Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/7–1612)

• intermission •

Sing joyfully unto God our strength · William Byrd (c. 1540–1623)

Anima mea liquefacta est · Lassus

Ego sum pauper et dolens · Giorgio Zucchini (1540–1615)

Dulces exuviae, Op. 24* · Tanmoy Laskar (born 1986)

Regina caeli · Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500–1553)

Nu dancket alle Gott · Schein

*composed for Convivium Musicum

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Saturday, January 30, 2016, 7 pm · Cambridge Friends Meeting HouseSunday, January 31, 2016, 5 pm · Christ Church Andover

Sunday, February 7, 2016, 4 pm · St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brooklinein collaboration with dancers of the Cambridge Dance CompanySunday, February 14, 2016, 4 pm · First Parish Church, Berlin

Singers:Soprano: Michelle Abadia (guest), Jaime Bonney (guest), Laura Henderson

(on leave), Kristina Jackson (guest), Cindy Liu, Sarah Spinella, Katie Yosua

Alto: Siobhan Climer (guest), Sarah Gore, Kate Gyllensvärd (on leave), Dylan Hillerbrand (guest), Anne Kazlauskas, Zoe Madonna (guest), Louisa Malkin (guest), Ruthie Miller, Rachel Ravina

Tenor: Gabriel Ellsworth, Ron Lacro, Cole Pomeroy (guest), Dan Schenk, Crispin Swank

Bass: Christopher Chase, Michael Dettelbach, Anand Dharan (guest), John Nesby

Board of Directors: Sarah Spinella, President; Ruthie Miller, Treasurer; Anne Matthews, Clerk; Michael Barrett, Music Director; Erik Bertrand, Michael Dettelbach, Evan Ingersoll, Cynthia Linkas, Ron Lacro, Dan Schenk

for more informationweb: www.convivium.org · phone: 617-320-7445 · email: info@convivium.orgCover: Ghent Altarpiece (detail), 1420–1432, by Hubert & Jan Van Eyck, public domain

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Texts & translations

In me transierunt irae tuae, et terrores tui conturbaverunt me, cor meum conturbatum est, dereliquit me virtus mea,dolor meus in conspectu meo semper:ne derelinquas me, Domine, Deus meus, ne discesseris a me.

Your wrath swept over me and your terrors have destroyed me.My heart pounds, my strength fails me,my pain is ever with me.Do not forsake me, o Lord, my God, be not far away from me.

(from Psalms 37, 87)

Ascendente Jesu in naviculam,secuti sunt eum discipuli eiuset ecce motus magnus factus est in mariita ut navicula operiretur fluctibusipse vero dormiebatet accesserunt ad eum discipuli eiuset suscitaverunt eum dicentes:

Domine salva nos perimus.Et dicit eis Jesus:Quid timidi estis modicae fidei:Tunc surgens imperavit ventis et mariet facta est tranquillitas magna.

And Jesus going up into the ship, his disciples followed him. And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him and awoke him saying: Lord, save us, we perish. And Jesus said to them: Why are you fearful, you of little faith? Then arising, he rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

(Matthew 8:23–26)

Commissa mea pavesco,et ante te erubesco: dum veneris judicare noli me condemnare.

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I begin to fear my transgressions,and I blush before thee.When thou shalt come to judge,do not condemn me.

Was betrübstu dich, meine Seele, und bist so unruhig in mir? Harre auff Gott; denn ich werde ihm noch dancken, daß er meines Angesichtes Hülfe und mein Gott ist.

Why, my soul, are you downcast?Why so disturbed within me?Put your hope in God,for I will yet praise him,my Savior and my God.

(Psalm 42:11)

Circumdederunt me dolores mortis, et pericula inferni invenerunt me.In tribulatione mea invocavi Dominum et ad Deum meum clamavi.

The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me.In my trouble, I called upon the name of the Lord and cried out to my God.

(Psalm 114:3)

Plaudite, psallite.Jubilate Deo omnis terra. Alleluja.Benedicant Dominum omnes gentescollaudantes eum. Alleluja.Quia fecit nobis cum Dominusmisericordiam suam Alleluja.Et captivam duxit captivitatem;Admirabilis et gloriosus in saecula. Alleluja.

Clap, sing psalms,shout to God, every land, Alleluja.Let all people bless the Lord, praising him, Alleluja.For the Lord has shown his mercy with us, Alleluja.And led the captive out of captivity, wonderful and glorious forever, Alleluja.

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Sing joyfully to God our strength; sing loud unto the God of Jacob!Take the song, bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp, and the viol.Blow the trumpet in the new moon, even in the time appointed, and at our feast day.For this is a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.(Psalm 81:1–4)

Anima mea liquefacta est, ut dilectus locutus est.Quaesivi et non inveni illum; vocavi et non respondit mihi.Invenerunt me custodes civitatis, percusserunt me et vulneraverunt me.Tulerunt pallium meum custodes murorum.Filiae Hierusalem, nuntiate dilecto quia amore langueo.

My soul failed when my beloved spoke;I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.The watchmen of the city found me, they smote me and they wounded me.The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.Daughters of Jerusalem, tell my beloved that I am sick of love.

Translation by Paul Pascal

Ego sum pauper et dolens; salus tua, Deus, suscepit me.Laudabo nomen Dei cum cantico, et magnificabo eum in laude:et placebit Deo super vitulum novellum, cornua producentem et ungulas.Videant pauperes, et laetentur; quaerite Deum, et vivet anima vestra:

As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness: thy help, O God, shall lift me up.I will praise the Name of God with a song: and magnify it with thanksgiving.This also shall please the Lord : better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.The humble shall consider this, and be glad: seek ye after God, and your soul shall live.

(Psalm 69:30–33)

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Dulces exuviae, dum fata deusque sinebat,accipite hanc animam meque his exsolvite curis,Vixi et quem dederat cursum fortuna peregi,et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit imago.Urbem praeclaram statui, mea moenia vidi,ulta virum poenas inimico a fratre recepi,felix, heu nimium felix, si litora tantumnumquam Dardaniae tetigissent nostra carinae.

Objects dear to me, while divine fate allowed it: receive this life and release me from these troubles.I have lived; and the course that fortune had allotted to me I have fulfilled; and now the great ghost of myself will go beneath the earth. I have erected a noble city; I have seen my own fortification walls. When I had avenged my husband, I exacted the penalty from my brother, our enemy. Happy — alas, too happy — if only the Trojan ships had never touched our shores!

Translation by Paul Pascal

Regina coeli laetare, Alleluia.Quia quem meruisti portare, Alleluia.Resurrexit sicut dixit, Alleluia.Ora pro nobis Deum. Alleluia.

Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.For He whom you were worthy to bear, alleluia.He has risen, as He said, alleluia.Pray for us to God, alleluia.

Nu danket alle Gott, der große Ding tut an allen Enden, der uns von Mutterleibe an lebendig erhältund tut uns alles Guts.Er gebe uns ein fröhliches Herz und verleihe immerdar Friede zu unser Zeit in Israel,und daß seine Gnade stets bei uns bleib; Und erlöse uns so lange wir leben.

Now we all thank God, Who accomplishes all ends,Who keeps us alive from birth, and does us every good.He warms our heart and lends peace from now until our time in Israel.May He grant that His grace remain always with us, as long as we live.

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In this season of political campaigning, the term “rhetoric” gets an especially bad rap. In the public sphere today, “rhetoric” is largely a pejorative term, implying empty or misleading language with little or no substance behind it. Yet all politi-cians still seek to convince with their words, and this is the classical definition of rhetoric itself: the art of persuasive speech. It is more the style that has changed over time than the need to persuade.

The rhetor’s task may ultimately be to convince the listener of the truth of a certain statement (that person X, for example, is guilty of murder), but the tools of rhetoric are very much meant to appeal to the emotions, not just the intellect. Rhetoric knows no moral boundaries, as both the highest-minded leaders and the worst tyrants of the past centuries have drawn on its principles to their own respective ends.

That you are attending this concert suggests that you may have experienced certain pieces of music that seem to have a power to affect you emotionally, to take you on a metaphorical journey outside your everyday experience. Is there a con-nection between that power and the power of artfully organized speech? This was the argument made by Joachim Burmeister, a north German music theorist and composer active in the early 17th century. Burmeister’s Musica Poetica, published in 1606, was not his first writing on the rhetoric of music, but in this influential work he made the first serious effort to catalog what came to be known as the musical-rhetorical figures, those generally short musical turns of phrase that to him held rhetorical significance.

As best he could, Burmeister named the musical figures he observed with analo-gous terms from verbal rhetoric. For example, an anabasis is a rising musical figure, while a catabasis is a falling one. Many musical figures have no clear analogy in verbal rhetoric, but their rhetorical function was such that the theorist did his best to find a fitting term. Burmeister’s efforts spawned a veritable cottage industry by subsequent German theorists of naming and cataloging new — and in some cases spurious — musical-rhetorical figures.

Crucially, there is no evidence that composers took these unwieldy charts of figures as templates for crafting new works. Yet it is clear that Burmeister and his followers made important observations about how composers of the late Renais-sance and early Baroque thought about their craft. We may quibble over the nam-ing or number or nature of their lists of figures, but it is clear that a great deal of

Notes to tonight’s program

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polyphonic music was composed with musical rhetoric in mind, across countries and generations. This aspect — musica poetica in practice — is our focus tonight.

The figures of rhetoric are but one component of the rhetorician’s toolkit. In the classical model of a speech, for example, one typically finds a specific dispositio, or organization of parts, including sections devoted to introductory material, the support of one’s argument, and the refutation of counterarguments. This archi-tectonic concept, like that of the figures, has a clear analogue in much music of the Renaissance and later.

The notion that music can be organized like persuasive speech is by no means lost to many modern composers. We will hear one such example tonight in the work of Tanmoy Laskar. Several Renaissance composers set the famous passage from the Aeneid where Queen Dido laments her fate before throwing herself upon the funeral pyre. Convivium has performed some of those works in years past, but for this occasion we are fortunate enough to hear the setting of a living composer. As you will no doubt recognize, it is a piece that draws on many compositional principles of the 16th century, but with a musical voice still clearly from the 21st.

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About the ArtistsFounded and run by its singers, Convivium Musicum has been dedicated to concerts of uplifting beauty since 1987. Praised in The Boston Musical Intelligencer for our “…radiant and full sound …complete interpretive assurance and a palpable sense of dedication to this music,” Convivium is known for performances of Renaissance choral music that shimmer with precision, fine intonation, rhythmic accuracy, and lively attention to text. Over nearly three decades we have offered rarely-heard gems alongside stirring masterworks, and have collaborated with the Boston Camerata, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, The Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, and the Viola da Gamba Society of New England. As we enter our ninth season with Music Director Michael Barrett, our programs continue to be informed by careful research and scholarship, and our performances devoted to bringing to life the complex and profound emotional texture of this repertoire. Early Music America has acclaimed our performance as “the kind of transforming experience that concert junkies are always seeking.” This is what Convivium strives for in every concert program.

Music Director Michael Barrett is active in the Boston area as a professional musician and teacher. As a singer Mr. Barrett has collaborated with the Boston Camerata, Huelgas Ensemble, Blue Heron, Vox Luminis, Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Netherlands Bach Society), L’Académie, Seven Times Salt, and Exsultemus. He can be heard on the harmonia mundi and Blue Heron record labels.

In Boston Mr. Barrett directs Convivium Musicum, a chamber choir for Renaissance music, and in the fall of 2014 has served as guest director of Cantilena, a women's chorus in Arlington. He has taught courses in conducting, music history and theory at Boston University and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and has served as a sabbatical replacement choral director at Bridgewater State University. With his wife Anney hs is co-owner of The Green Room, a multipurpose arts studio in Union Square, Somerville, where he teaches voice, piano and music theory. Mr. Barrett earned an AB in music from Harvard University, an MM in choir conducting from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and a First Phase Diploma in Baroque and Classical singing from the Koninklijk Conservatorium (Royal Conservatory) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is currently a doctoral student in choral conducting at Boston University.

A professional astronomer, Tanmoy Laskar moonlights as a singer, composer, and conductor in the San Francisco Bay Area. His singing experience includes choirs in Eng-land and in the Boston area, including the Harvard Glee Club and the Choral Fellows at the Harvard Memorial Church. Tanmoy trained as a composer while receiving a minor in music from Harvard University during his PhD studies in astrophysics. He composes both instrumental music in the Classical style, and polyphonic choral works in the style of the late Renaissance period. His works have been premiered by choirs in the Boston area, including the Harvard University Choir. As a conductor, Tanmoy has been direct-ing musical ensembles since 2005. He founded and directed two Early Music groups in Cambridge, MA: Tactus, and the Summer Seasonals, which have received audience acclaim for their innovative and transportive programming. Tanmoy enjoys exploring new languages and instruments to compose for, writes poetry to set to music, and designs his own concert programs featuring his original watercolor artwork.

For more information about the ensemble, please visit www.convivium.org.

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AcknowledgmentsConvivium would like to thank Susan DeSelms and the United Parish in Brookline for our rehearsal home. We gratefully acknowledge our concert hosts and supporters this season: Cambridge Friends Meeting, Chist Church Andover, St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brookline, and First Parish Church of Berlin. As always, we thank Evan Ingersoll for his brochure and program design; Doc Davis for recording, and Erik Bertrand for maintaining our web site,www.convivium.org.  

Convivium Musicum is a non-profit organization largely supported by membership dues and tax-deductible donations. Please join us in our effort to bring this beautiful music to all, by considering a donation this season. Many thanks!

Our heartfelt thanks to our family of donors:

GuarantorRon Lacro and Jon SchumMichael McDonaldAnne MatthewsRuthie MillerRuth Westheimer

UnderwriterJohn CareyThom and Cindy Linkas

Grand PatronRebecca and Thom BarrettFred FranklinDavid HalsteadEvan IngersollIris and Luther Miller

PatronPhillip Davis

BenefactorJean BeebeDavid Bliss and Judy UhlRobert CochranStephen KennedySusan LesterSudie Marcuse-BatzJameson and Polly MarvinSusan McGee and John

StewardCarolyn Gayle and Peter

RiskindJoseph ShortAndrew Sigel

SponsorIn Memory of Kathy

BenforadoSusan BushMartha DavidsonSusan and Clark JarvisCharlene and Ron NilsonJohn and Joyce PennistonCheryl RyderDouglas and Patricia

WoodlockMichal Truelsen and Joda

Wormhoudt

FriendJean BellowSarah Riskind

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A Cappella Singers, www.theacappellasingers.org Andover Choral Society, andoverchoralsociety.org Apollo Club of Boston, www.apolloclub.org Arlington-Belmont Chorale (Philharmonic Society),

psarlington.org/drupal/ Back Bay Chorale, www.bbcboston.org Boston Cecilia, www.bostoncecilia.org Boston Choral Ensemble, www.BostonChoral.org Boston City Singers, www.bostoncitysingers.org Boston Gay Men's Chorus, www.bgmc.org Braintree Choral Society, www.braintreesings.org Broadmoor Chamber Singers,

www.broadmoorsingers.org Brookline A Cappella, www.brooklineacappella.com Cambridge Chamber Singers,

www.cambridgechambersingers.org Cambridge Community Chorus,

www.cambridgechorus.org Cantata Singers, www.cantatasingers.org Cantemus, www.cantemus.org Cantilena - a woman's chorale, www.cantilena.org Cappella Nova Mundi, cappellanovamundi.weebly.com Cappriccio Chorus at Rivers School,

www.riversschoolconservatory.org Choral Art Society of the South Shore,

www.choralartsociety.org Chorus Boston, www.chorusboston.org Chorus North Shore, www.chorusnorthshore.org Chorus Pro Musica, www.choruspromusica.org Commonwealth Chorale (Newton Choral Society)

www.commonwealthchorale.com Concord Chorus, www.ConcordChorus.org Concord Women's Chorus,

www.concordwomenschorus.org Convivium Musicum, www.convivium.org Coolidge Corner Community Chorus,

www.cccchorus.org Coro Allegro, www.coroallegro.org Coro Dante, www.dantemass.org/html/coro-dante Dedham Choral Society, www.dedhamchoral.org Fine Arts Chorale, www.fineartschorale.org First Unitarian Society in Newton, www.fusn.org Genesis Chamber Singers,

www.genesischambersingers.com Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus,

www.bostonchorus.net Halalisa Singers, www.halalisa.org Handel and Haydn Society, www.handelandhaydn.org Harvard Glee Club, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hgc/ Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrc/ Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum,

www.hcs.harvard.edu/hrcm/

Harvard pro Musica, www.harvardpromusica.org Highland Glee Club, www.highlandgleeclub.com In Choro Novo, www.inchoronovo.com Jameson Singers, www.jamesonsingers.org Kings Chapel Concert Series. www.kings-chapel.org Koleinu , www.koleinu.org Labyrinth Choir, www.labyrinthchoir.org Lexington Pops Chorus,

www.LexingtonPopsChorus.org Mastersingers of Lexington, www.themastersingers.org Masterworks Chorale, www.masterworkschorale.org Metropolitan Chorale, www.metropolitanchorale.org MIT Women's Chorale, web.mit.edu/womensleague/womenschorale/ Musica Sacra, www.musicasacra.org Mystic Chorale, www.mysticchorale.org Nashoba Valley Chorale, www.nashobachorale.org Neponset Choral Society, Inc., www.ncschorus.org New School of Music (Cambridge), newschoolofmusic.org/ensembles/choir-ensembles/ New World Chorale , www.newworldchorale.org Newton Community Chorus,

www.NewtonCommunityChorus.org Night Song, www.nightsong.org Oriana Consort, www.theorianaconsort.org Orpheus Singers, www.orpheussingers.org Pilgrim Festival Chorus, www.pilgrimfestivalchorus.org Polymnia Choral Society, www.polymnia.org Quincy Choral Society, www.quincychoral.org Radcliffe Choral Society, www.hcs.harvard.edu/~rcs/ Reading Community Singers,

www.readingcommunitysingers.org Revels, www.revels.org Saengerfest Men's Chorus, www.saengerfest.org Seraphim Singers, www.seraphimsingers.org Sharing A New Song, www.sharinganewsong.org SingPositive, www.singpositive.org/contact.html Somerville Community Chorus,

www.somervillechorus.com Sound and Spirit, www.soundandspirit.net Sounds of Stow Festival Chorus & Orchestra,

www.soundsofstow.org Spectrum Singers, www.spectrumsingers.org Stämbandet, www.stambandet.org Tremble Clefs, www.jfcsboston.org Voices Boston, voicesboston.org Voices Rising, www.voicesrising.org Wellesley Choral Society,

www.WellesleyChoralSociety.org Westford Chorus, www.westfordchorus.org Youth Pro Musica, www.youthpromusica.org Zamir Chorale of Boston, www.zamir.org

Convivium Musicum is a member of the Greater Boston Choral Consortium, a cooperative association of diverse choral groups in Boston and the surrounding areas.

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Music for Royal Occasions Friday, March 18 at 8pm • First Lutheran Church of Boston

The exquisite voices of Exsultemus shine in an extraordinary program of music written for the public and private milestones of Renaissance European courts. From battle�ield triumphs to marital unions to prominent deaths, composers

memorialized countless occasions with some of the most beautiful and memorable music of the era, with works by Lasso, Festa, Sen�l, and others.

Shannon Canavin & Margot Rood, soprano

Gerrod Pagenkopf, countertenor Matthew Barrett & Jason McStoots, tenor

Jacob Scharfman, bass-baritone

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CORO ALLEGRODavid Hodgkins, Artistic Director

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Boston’s acclaimed classical chorus for members, friends, and allies of the LGBT community

2015-16 SEASON

A Concert for Marriage Equality Featuring musical celebrations and Mozart’s Requiem for those who never saw this day

Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 at 3pm, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge

The Voices of Children Sunday, Mar. 13, 2016 at 3pm, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge

Featuring Howard Frazin’s The Voice of Isaac

We Are Here World premiere of a work by award-winning composer Eric Banks on the life and vision of slain Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato Kisule

Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 3pm, Church of the Covenant, Boston

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dido’s lament& other music by Franco-Flemish composers c. 1500–1600

recorded live in concertrecorded live in concert

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with the Boston Shawm & Sackbut Ensemble

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RENAISSANCE SPAINAND THE NEW WORLD

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CONVIVIUM·MUSICUMMichael Bar r ett, music di r ector

spring 2016: �e Regensburg Manuscript

�e Regensburg Manuscript is a colle�ion of six partbooks of late-16th-century polyphony. Al-though it contains vocal music, it was copied out for an ensemble of wind players, and is unique among sources of the period in containing �eci�c in�rumentation for many of its compositions. We are delighted to collaborate with the 7 Hills Re-naissance Wind Band in performances of works by Striggo, Monte, Utendal, and many more.

S�urday, May 14, 8 pm: Trinity Lutheran Church in Worce�er

S�urday, May 21, 8 pm: Harvard-Epworth Church, Cambridge

Sunday, May 22, 7 pm: United Parish in Brookline

“rich, vi�l sound” — New York Times

for tickets and complete season information: www.convivium.org · 617-320-7445