7:00 p.m. Saturday June 5th • St. Mark's Lutheran Church • San Francisco
In June, the ensemble will give a concert of unaccompanied early sacred music at three
San Francisco Bay Area venues. The tentative program includes both familiar and rarely performed
pieces from the Renaissance and Middle Ages like the following:
William Byrd: Emendemus In Melius
Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria...Virgo Serena
Josquin Desprez: Inviolata, Integra et Casta
Chant and Guillaume Dufay: Ave Maris Stella
Chant and Maurice Durufle: Ubi Caritas
Hildegard von Bingen: O Virtus Sapientiae
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut Cervus
Thomas Tallis: O Nata Lux
Tomas Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria for Double Choir
7:00 p.m. Saturday June 5th • St. Mark's Lutheran Church • San Francisco
The first performance will be in the beautiful sanctuary of Saint Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, at the corner of O'Farrell and Franklin Streets. There is on-site parking and the church is about a mile from the Civic Center BART Station. More transportation and parking information is available from the directions page of the church's web site. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Tickets are $12 if purchased on or before June 1st or $16 after that.
The
second performance will be in the Mercy Motherhouse Chapel on the Burlingame campus of the Sisters
of Mercy at 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010. More information about the Sisters of
Mercy in Burlingame is available at their web site www.mercyburl.org.
Directions to the venue are available at
their web site and at
Yahoo Maps.
A campus map is
also available. The Forest Parking Lot is the best place to park. The venue is
wheelchair accessible. Tickets are $12 if
purchased on or before June 1st or $16 after that.
The third performance will be in the sanctuary of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704. Directions, transportation and parking information are available on the directions page of the church's web site. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Tickets are $12 if purchased on or before June 8th or $16 after that. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
TicketsTickets may be purchased online through the day before each event by debit or credit card or at the door starting thirty minutes before each performance by cash or check. Purchasing a ticket in advance assures that a seat and a program will be available for you. You can purchase tickets now by browsing to our ticketing service or by calling them at (800) 838-3006.
This event is a unique combination of two learn-and-sing workshops that have proven to be very successful. The first are the Chant Camps offered around the nation by Susan Hellauer and Marsha Genensky of the renowned early music ensemble Anonymous 4. The second are the Early Sacred Music Sing-Along events offered by Mostly Motets, most recently at the 2008 Berkeley festival.
This event will combine and extend those workshops to demonstrate relationships between Medieval and Renaissance polyphony and the earlier chant upon which it was based. While some history and theory will be provided, the event will be very much a participatory one. The "audience" will hear and learn a chant, sing that chant, hear and learn a related piece of polyphony, then sing it, and cycle through several pieces in that fashion. Susan and Marsha will lead and demonstrate the chant portions of the workshop. Mostly Motets, directed by Steve Moore, will demonstrate the polyphony and then sing it with the audience.
Sheet music will be provided. While reading music would be necessary to sing the more complex polyphony, both experienced and inexperienced singers are welcome to attend. Those who don't read music or don't wish to sing are also welcome to attend and listen.
The workshop will take place in two separate sessions on the same day, June 13th, both in Berkeley, during the Berkeley Early Music Festival. You may attend either one or both sessions. Since the content will be different in the two sessions, you are encouraged to attend both.
The tentative program of polyphonic pieces that may be sung in the morning session, together with their mostly medieval chant precursors, is:
Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria...Virgo Serena
Josquin Desprez: Inviolata, Integra et Casta
Guillaume Dufay: Alma Redemptoris Mater II
Thomas Tallis: Te Lucis Ante Terminum I
The Choral Rehearsal Hall is Room 20 in the basement of the Cesar Chavez Student Center on the U.C. Berkeley campus, very near other festival activities. It is just north of Zellerbach Hall, a few hundred feet north of Bancroft Way, between Telegraph Avenue and Dana Street. Enter from the outside, downstairs in the back, near the northwest corner of the building. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Those with wheelchairs or other special accessability needs are encourged to contact the event sponsors in advance at Event101@MostlyMotets.com.
The tentative program of polyphonic pieces that may be sung in the afternoon session, together with their mostly medieval chant precursors, is:
Josquin Desprez: In Principio Erat Verbum
Guillaume Dufay: Ave Maris Stella
Maurice Durufle: Ubi Caritas
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut Cervus
Thomas Tallis: O Nata Lux
Trinity Chapel is at 2320 Dana St. between Bancroft Way & Durant Avenue. It is very near other festival activities, i.e. next door to the Berkeley City Club and one block from both the U.C. Berkeley Campus and First Congregational Church. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
If purchased on or before June 8th, tickets are $20 for the morning session, $25 for the afternoon session, or $35 for both sessions. After June 8th they are $25 morning, $30 afternoon, or $45 for both sessions. They may be purchased online through June 12th by debit or credit card or at the door starting thirty minutes before each session by cash or check. Purchasing a ticket in advance assures that a seat and a program with sheet music will be available for you. You can purchase tickets now by browsing to our ticketing service or by calling them at (800) 838-3006.
The Berkeley Festival and Exhibition is an early music festival that is offered every other year in the San Francisco East Bay. It will be held this year from June 6th through the 13th. It consists of performances, lectures, workshops, meetings, and other activities. One of the sponsors, Cal Performances, will provide information about "main events" at bfx.berkeley.edu. A wealth of "fringe events" are also offered, many of which will be listed on the web site of another sponsor, the San Francisco Early Music Society at www.sfems.org. Another sponsor, Early Music America, hosts the exhibition and lists information about the festival at www.earlymusic.org. The June 12th Mostly Motets concert and the June 13th Chant in Renaissance Polyphony Sing-Along Workshop will be offered in conjunction with the Berkeley festival.
While Mostly Motets won't be involved in this event, you may be interested to know that a learn-and-sing chant workshop about the Vespers of 1210, which formed the basis for Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, will also be offered during the Berkeley festival. It also features Susan Hellauer and Marsha Genensky (among others) and is sponsored by Early Music America. More information about that and other Chant Camps is available at www.chantvillage.com and at www.earlymusic.org.