CREDO

Sunday, October 9, 2011, 7:00 PM
Setnor Auditorium, Syracuse University
$15 (seniors and students $10)

Stirring statements of faith set to powerful and eloquent music by Palestrina, Du Fay, Machaut and others. Click on "Read program notes" to see the program.

photo by Paul Breese-Garelick.

AVE MARIA

Sunday, December 18, 2011, 4:00 PM
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church, 5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt
$15 (seniors and students $10)

Music for the Christmas season inspired by the Mother of the Child:

Josquin des Prez (d. 1521), Ave Maria (click here for audio)
Guillaume du Fay (d. 1474), Missa Ecce Ancilla Domini (click here for audio)
Johannes Ockeghem (d. 1497), Alma Redemtoris Mater
Henry Purcell (d. 1695), Magnificat
and motets by the Renaissance masters Guerrero, Isaac, Lasso, and Gallus.

Jan Van Eyck (d. 1441) painted The Annunciation (detail at left) in Flanders around 1435, when Du Fay would have been about 38 years old and Ockeghem probably 25 or younger. Both Van Eyck and Du Fay at different times were in the employ of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, during whose reign the Duchy of Burgundy reached the height of its prosperity and cultural influence. This painting is in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

LOCKE, LAWES, AND LUPO

Sunday, January 15, 2012, 4:00 PM
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church, 5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt
$15 (seniors and students $10)

Schola's viol consort, Gamba Obscura, performs works from the three great periods of English consort music: the reigns of James I (Thomas Lupo, d. 1627), Charles I (William Lawes, d. 1645), and Charles II (Matthew Locke, d. 1677).

Click here to sample music of William Lawes, and to see some lovely instruments.

The concert will feature
Thomas Lupo, music for viols
William Lawes, music for viols with organ
Matthew Locke, music for viols with harpsichord

performed by
Alex Rakov, director
Alex Korolov, Toby Weinberg, Kate Cushing, Tom Klenk, viols
Joscelyn Godwin, continuo

William Lawes was active as a court composer at the time that Peter Lely did the painting at the right, in 1640, which portrays a bass viol and its player and, presumably, his muse. In 1645 Lawes was shot and killed in the service of Charles I in the English Civil War.

VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS

Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8:00 PM
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church, 5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt
$15 (seniors and students $10)

Sublime and ecstatic music for the season of Ascension and Pentecost, including Schütz's 16-part Veni Sancte Spiritus and works of Dunstable, Taverner and others.

BASTARDA TO LYRA VIOLE

Sunday, June 17, 2012, 7:00 PM
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church, 5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt
$15 (seniors and students $10)

Virtuosic music in the viola bastarda style, by Schola's viol consort, Gamba Obscura.

Photo to the right is by Jerome Arnouf.