Choral Arts Society of Washington

Choral Music 101: A Guided Tour Through Norman's Choral Playlist

November 7, 2011, 9:00 pm

FRONT ROW WASHINGTON presents a special program featuring the Choral Arts Society of Washington, which opened their 2010-2011 season.  Titled CHORAL MUSIC 101: A Guided Tour Through Norman’s Choral Playlist, it offers a chronological survey of works from Gregorian plainsong through today.

The concert was co-hosted from the stage by Norman Scribner, and Classical WETA's Deborah Jane Lamberton, and took place Sunday, November 14th, 2010 at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus.

Featured performances:

 The Choral Arts Society of Washington presents Norman Scribner, Artistic Director
CHORAL MUSIC 101
A Guided Tour Through Norman’s Choral Playlist

Plainsong Sequence, Mode 1 – Ascribed to Wipo (c. 1030) Victimae Paschali

 William Byrd (c.1540–1623):  I will not leave you comfortless

 Claudio Monteverdi (c.1567–1643): Sancta Maria (from Vespers of 1610

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):Gloria in excelsis Deo (from Mass in B Minor

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809):Agnus Dei (from Missa in tempore belli)

Ludwig van Beethoven (c.1770–1827): Agnus Dei (from Missa Solemnis)

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897):Lebeslieder Walzer (Numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 7)

Richard Wagner (1813–1883): Pilgrim’s Chorus (from Tannhäuser

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): Kyrie and Sanctus (from Mass )

John Tavener (b.1944) Little Lamb

Carl Orff (1895–1982): Dulcissime, Ave Formossima and O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)

Morten Lauridsen (b.1943): Introitus (from Lux Aeterna)