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| Event: | Good Friday Concert |
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The St. Cecilia Choir, Incarnation Orchestra and soloists will sing Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart’s beautiful Missa Solemnis, K 337 and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater on Good Friday evening, April 6 at 8:00 p.m. at the Church of the Incarnation. By popular demand, J. Karla Lemon joins us again this year as guest conductor. Soloists are Carol Menke, soprano, Bonnie Brooks, mezzo-soprano, Jos Milton, tenor, and Tom Hart, baritone. Written in Salzburg in March 1780 while Mozart was still under the thumb of Archbishop Colloredo, the Missa Solemnis Mass followed the Archbishop’s rule to the letter. It is as brief as possible. But “Mozart, by writing the first three movements in forms that would please the Archbishop, wished to lull him into a false sense of security” writes Alfred Einstein. “For the Benedictus is the most striking and revolutionary movement in all of Mozart’s Masses – an extended piece in the harsh key of A minor, in the strictest contrapuntal style …. in a certain sense a very “churchly” piece indeed, and yet it is quite in line with the rebellious character of Mozart in that he combined the art of annoying the Archbishop with the art of pursuing his own ideals.” The Pergolesi setting of the Stabat Mater was written in 1735, a year before his death. It became the most frequently published single work of the 18th century, and remains the most often heard of all Pergolesi’s compositions. Scored for soprano, alto, strings and continuo, it opens with a setting of the first stanza for the two voices, which enter after a brief and moving instrumental introduction, music that Mozart might have had in mind as he wrote his own Requiem a half century later. |
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$15 per person; $10 students w/ID. (Last year’s concert was sold out, so please purchase tickets in advance.) |
| Date & Time: | Good Friday evening, April 6, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Church of the Incarnation Directions |
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J. KARLA LEMON, CONDUCTOR J. Karla Lemon has appeared as a guest conductor with numerous orchestras including the Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Spokane Symphony, the Women’s Philharmonic and the Berkeley Symphony. Last December Ms. Lemon made her New York debut in Alice Tully Hall as conductor with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. During the 2006-07 season she will appear as a guest conductor with the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and the Nashua Symphony. Ms. Lemon was Director of Orchestras and Music Director of the Alea II Ensemble for Contemporary Music at Stanford University for ten years. During that time she led the Stanford Symphony Orchestra on three international tours performing in major venues throughout the United States, Europe and China. Recent highlight performances have included collaborations with guest artists Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Christine Brandes, Fred Sherry, Maria Bachmann, Ida Kafavian and Richard Todd. Ms. Lemon has recorded for the Koch International, Albany, Innova, Vienna Modern Masters and Dorian labels. In addition to highly acclaimed performances of the standard repertoire, Ms. Lemon’s name is associated with innovative programming and presenting works by living composers. As such she has conducted the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the “Works and Process Series’ in New York City, the “Fresh Ink” series at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (midwest tour), Pittsburgh’s Music from the Edge, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Oberlin Dance Collective, and the Scotia Festival in Halifax. She has premiered over thirty works by composers including Pulitzer Prize winners Melinda Wagner, Wayne Peterson, and Ellen Taffe Zwilich, as well as Chen Yi, Libby Larsen, John Corigliano, Philip Glass, Joan Tower, Peter Lieberson, and Eric Moe. As an educator Ms. Lemon has served as the resident conductor of the Henry Mancini Institute, guest conductor with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. She has offered master classes in conducting at the Mancini Institute and the Beijing and Shanghai Conservatories. Currently she is on the conducting staff at UC Davis teaching in the graduate conducting program. Back to top |