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Past Concerts and Events
Music Divine's FINAL, FAREWELL concert began at 4:00 Sunday, November 20, 2011 at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street, at Second Avenue, NYC The Featured Work on the program was: *Josquin Desprez's Missa Une
Mousse de Biscaye** It was preceded by several shorter works: Palestrina: Sicut cervus Monteverdi: Ecco mormorar l'onde Isaac: Agnus Dei from Missa La mi la sol And we concluded with an
encore of Thomas Tomkins's MUSIC DIVINE Read Program Notes for Final concert *Hear the Kyrie, recorded at Music Divine's first concert, November 12, 2005
Program notes for Music Divine's performance at 2007 New York Early Music Celebration Recordings of
some of our past concerts were on sale at the Final concert. 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18, 2011 Renaissance: Christmas
in June Byrd, Morales, Palestrina: O
magnum mysterium Tallis, Eccard, Martini: Magnificat works by Bach, Binchois, Finck, Hassler, Mouton & Praetorius at Admission: $15 Fully Employed; $10 All Others, including
EMA For more info: PROGRAM: At the end of April
2011, Music Divine helped to celebrate the 85th birthday of Dr. Isabelle Cazeaux, renowned musicologist and Bryn Mawr
College professor, author of French Music in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1975) and editor
of the complete secular works of Claudin de Sermisy. The New York chapter of the American Musicological Society chose to surprise
her at its spring meeting, April 30, 2011, held at the Music Department of Columbia University, where Dr. Cazeaux
earned her Ph.D. and M.L.S. Having learned that one of her doctoral students (Steve Bonime) directs a local choir that specializes
in Renaissance music, the chapter president invited us to sing, just before the lunch break, a dozen 16th-century Parisian
chansons, mostly by Claudin, plus one each by Janequin and Passereau. Unquestionably delighted, the surprised honoree added
historical commentary to the performance of many of her favorite pieces by five members of Music Divine. On Friday, April 15, 2011, Music Divine performed at the New York Public Library, in conjunction with a lecture by Scott Trudell, entitled "Hamlet: Poetry That Doesn't Matter," . Click here for more info about the lecture/performance.
This performance was Music Divine's contribution to
the festival
which is a choral celebration sponsored by the
Music Divine's concert A Sheep (Jean Mouton), featuring
works by: Jean MOUTON and a mass by Cristóbal de Morales Walter LAMBE
and John SHEPPARD; and
Agnus Dei settings by
PIECES PERFORMED: Walter
Lambe: Nesciens Mater John Sheppard:
Justi in perpetuum Agnus Dei from: Cristóbal
de Morales: Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus Several of these works will be repeated at our Boston Early Music Festival
fringe concert
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010, 4:30 PM "Not Only Noël: Renaissance Xmas and Other Gems" Byrd,
Morales, Palestrina, Poulenc: O magnum mysterium Eccard, Martini, Tallis:
Magnificat works by J.S. Bach, Binchois, Costeley, Finck,
Hassler, Isaac, Janequin, Mouton, Ockeghem, M. Praetorius St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue), NYC Magnificat
Thomas TALLIS (c.1505-1585)
(Übers Gebirg Maria geht)
Johannes ECCARD (1553-1611)
Johannes MARTINI (c.1440-1497) Shepherds
Angelus
ad pastores ait (1591) Hans
Leo HASSLER (1564-1612)
Allons gay bergères
(1567) Guillaume COSTELEY (1530/31-1606) Hymn
A solis ortus cardine /
Gilles BINCHOIS (c.1400-1460)
v. 4: Domus pudici (posth.prt.1542) Heinrich FINCK
(c.1444-c.1527) O magnum mysterium
(1607) William BYRD (1539/40-1623)
Cristóbal
de MORALES (c.1500-1553)
(1952) Francis POULENC (1899-1963)
(1569) Giovanni da PALESTRINA (c.1525-1594)
INTERMISSION "NOT ONLY" Non
nobis Domine / qui Reginam (1510) Jean MOUTON
(c.1459-1522) Alma redemptoris Mater
Jean de OCKEGHEM (c.1410-1497) Réconfortez le petit coeur
de moy (1528) Clément JANEQUIN
(c.1485-1558) Sancte Deus
Thomas TALLIS (1505-1585) Resonet in laudibus
Johannes
ECCARD (1553-1611) Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
(1724) J.S. BACH (1685-1750)
Puer natus in Bethlehem
(1609) Michael PRAETORIUS (1571-1621) Imperii proceres
(1507) Heinrich ISAAC (c.1450-1517)
This is a brief program, with no intermission,
of one of the most celebrated compositions by the most celebrated composer of the Early Renaissance: Josquin
Lebloitte, called Desprez. In contrast to the more common "cyclical" mass of the period,
with every movement based on one sacred or secular melody, Josquin's Missa de Beata Virgine paraphrases the distinct plainchant
melodies of each movement of the Roman Liturgy's Mass for the Blessed Virgin Mary. The composer provides contrasting moods
and textures as well, from the 4-voice solemn Kyrie and lively Gloria to the 5-voice dark Credo and sunny Sanctus. Josquin
inserts a low-register duet as the middle statement of the Agnus Dei, whose outer 5-voice sections extend the radiance of
the Sanctus all the way to the blissful final C-major chord.
GERMAN composers: ENGLISH composers: On Sunday evening, November 1, Music Divine joined Asteria, Canby Singers and Renaissance Street Singers in a concert to celebrate the musical life of Harold Brown, one of the founders of New York's Early Music movement that began in the 1950s. Please learn all about him, and about a weekend of music inspired and written by him, by clicking on the following link: 
Renaissance Music for Spring, Lent & Easter
Barbireau, Brumel, Byrd, Cardoso,
Dufay, Janequin, Monteverdi,
Morley, Schütz, Victoria . . . and a little Bach & Brahms
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The Battle of Marignano, scene
of Janequin's La Guerre In October, for
the 2007 New York Early Music Celebration, we performed music of Heinrich Isaac and Josquin Desprez, dividing a mass
between them, framed by a 6-voice motet by each. We repeated the concert in Teaneck, NJ, to benefit the Teaneck Peace
& Justice Coalition.
In March 2008 we
presented Renaissance settings of Salve Regina by OBRECHT, MARTINI, MORALES, & VICTORIA--interspersed
with other Marian motets by OCKEGHEM. In December 2008 we presented "Jakob OBRECHT (1457-1505), 'Beethoven' of the Early
Renaissance; plus 16th-century Christmas motets by Lassus, Marenzio, Walter, and Jakob Handl" By the last quarter of the 15th century, a "new art" of
music had been established, already embodying many classical elements of harmony and counterpoint that lasted into the 19th
century. This early Renaissance style, perfected by Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Isaac, Obrecht, and many others, imposed
restrictions Obrecht was not always willing to follow. In the manner of Beethoven, who would not bind himself by all
the conventions of classical music around 1800, Obrecht did things no other did, even breaking newly established
rules, in order to achieve extraordinarily beautiful and exciting musical effects. His Missa Salve diva parens
exemplifies this daring originality perhaps better than any other composition of the period. Who knows how differently
the history of classical music might have developed if Obrecht hadn't been struck down by the plague in 1505, over a decade
before the death of his most famous contemporaries? We brought this extraordinay mass
to the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival, presenting it as a "fringe" concert at the First Lutheran
Church, at 299 Berkeley Street, on Saturday, June 13, at 4:30 p.m.
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