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Past Performances featuring settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Tomás Luis de Victoria, the world premiere of Cerddorion's first commission, "Lamentations for a City" by Lisa Bielawa, and works by Eric Whitacre, Brahms, Bielawa, and Ian Moss featuring a Mass setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria and the Requiem of Ildebrando Pizzetti featuring song settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Psalm settings by Igor Stravinsky, Aarvo Pärt, Jaako Mäntyjärvi, and David Lang featuring early sacred polyphony of Schütz, Schein, and Hassler; and secular laments and triumphs of Haydn, Mendelssohn, Distler, Rheinberger, Brahms, Isaac, and Senfl featuring settings of poems by Federico Garcia Lorca composed by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Einojuhani Rautavaara, and folk song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Holst, and Yumiko Matsuoka), February, 2003 featuring Brahms' "Funf Gesänge" and Schönberg's "Drei Volksliedsätze," along with "Mass for Men's Voices" by Peter Schickele and works by Sallinen and Finzi), November, 2002 featuring Monteverdi's "Messa a quattro voce di cappella", along with "Man in the Moon" by New York based composer Robert Dennis and the world premiere of "See the Moon", by Boston based composer Tom Shake), April, 2002 (works by Monique Gabus, Willaert, as well as Taverner's "Western Wynde" Mass and contemporary composer Giles Swayne's "Missa Tiburtina"), November, 2001 (An evening of lambs, lions, lilies, gladioli, and more, featuring the music of Benjamin Britten, Jacques Arcadelt, Irving Fine, Paul Hindemith, Pierre Mercure, John Tavener, and Ralph Vaughan Williams), May 2001 (secular French music ancient and modern, featuring the Chansons FranÇaises of Poulenc), February 2001 (secular works by Marenzio, Gesualdo, Palestrina, Schütz, Monteverdi, and Lauridsen), November 2000 (including Byrd's Mass for Five Voices and J.S. Bach's Jesu meine Freude), May 2000 (with works by Poulenc, Randall Thompson, and Duke Ellington, all born in 1899), February 2000 (Vaughan Williams Mass, Elgar, Britten, and Delius), November 1999 (Ockeghem Missa "L'Homme Armé," Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia, Stravinsky Mass), May 1999 (masses by Schubert and Mozart), February 1999 (songs by Brahms and Schubert, and Rheinberger's Mass in E-flat), November 1998 (Missa Pange Lingua, other sacred works, and secular songs by Josquin Desprez), March 1998 (Baroque masterworks for double choir, with Charis Chamber Voices), November 1997 (works by James Bassi, Lisa Bielawa, Elliot Z. Levine, Ned Rorem, Gregg Smith, and other contemporary New York City composers), May 1997 (including Memento, Domine and Sestina: Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amata), February 1997 (hymns of early America, spirituals, and folk song settings), November 1996 (Paul Hindemith and his influential contemporaries), June 1996 (performed under Cerddorion's prior name, Galatea) (post-Romantic works inspired by nature), March 1996 (performed under Cerddorion's prior name, Galatea) |
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