2022-2023 Season | Stile Antico

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“The style of each composer may be more or less original; there is only one Bach, whose style is utterly original and utterly his own.”

—Johann Friedrich Reichardt on C. P. E. Bach in 1774

Published by The Packard Humanities Institute cpebach.org

JUNE 4 -11, 2023

Boson Early Music Fesival

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Directors

Enjoy a weeklong Festival with dazzling OPERA, celebrated CONCERTS, the world-famous EXHIBITION, and so much more!

FESTIVAL CONCERTS FEATURING: The all-star BEMF Orchestra

Maxine Eilander, harp & Tekla Cunningham, violin

Les Délices | Vox Luminis | La Donna Musicale & Rumbarroco

The Newberry Consort | The Orlando Consort | Sollazzo Ensemble

The Organ & Keyboard Mini-Festival | Doulce Mémoire

Hamburger Ratsmusik | Tiburtina Ensemble

Stile Antico | Ricercar Consort | ACRONYM

BEMF Continuo Ensemble: The Three Sopranos

Erik Bosgraaf, recorder & Francesco Corti, harpsichord

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Visit BEMF.org for the complete schedule.

LES DÉLICES

THE ORLANDO CONSORT

DOULCE MÉMOIRE

Dear Friends,

This evening we are thrilled to welcome back the luminous British vocal ensemble Stile Antico for their tenth appearance in BEMF’s annual concert series. Firmly established as one of the most accomplished and sought-after Renaissance vocal groups in the world, with impeccable blend, intonation, and musicianship, this dynamic ensemble of twelve singers made their North American début at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival to great critical acclaim. They return for our season finale in a concert honoring the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, revered as one the most extraordinary composers England has ever produced. Their program, “England’s Nightingale,” reflects the complex forces that dominated Byrd’s life in a Protestant country where his Catholic faith was banned, and as a member of the Chapel Royal who composed music both for the official religion and for his own. Works by Byrd’s pupils Thomas Morley, Peter Philips, and Thomas Tomkins round out the program.

With tonight’s concert, our 2022–2023 season is brought to a satisfying and uplifting close. We hope you’ll join us for our 22nd biennial Boston Early Music Festival—A Celebration of Women—which takes place June 4 to 11, 2023. It promises to be an inspiring week honoring women in music from the present day and past centuries, including a new program from Stile Antico six weeks from tonight at Emmanuel Church. Subscriptions and single tickets are now on sale, and the enclosed comprehensive Festival Brochure contains in-depth descriptions of the week’s operas, concerts, and many other events. As always, please visit  BEMF.org  for the latest updates and information.

Thank you for joining us for tonight’s performance, whether live or virtually, and most especially for your patronage and support during this past season. Please accept our best wishes for health and prosperity throughout the spring and summer, and we look forward to seeing you in June!

Kathleen Fay Executive Director

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Boson Early Music Fesival

MANAGEMENT

Kathleen Fay, Executive Director

Carla Chrisfield, General Manager

Maria van Kalken, Assistant to the Executive Director

Brian Stuart, Director of Marketing and Publicity

Elizabeth Hardy, Marketing and Development Associate & Exhibition Manager

Perry Emerson, Operations Manager

Corey King, Box Office and Patron Services Manager

Conor Faherty Flynn, Box Office Associate & Advertising Coordinator

Andrew Sigel, Publications Editor

Nina Stern, Director of Community Engagement

ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP

Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Directors

Gilbert Blin, Opera Director

Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director

Melinda Sullivan, Lucy Graham Dance Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bernice K. Chen, Chairman | David Halstead, President

Brit d’Arbeloff, Vice President | Lois A. Lampson, Vice President

Susan L. Robinson, Vice President

Adrian C. Touw, Treasurer | Peter L. Faber, Clerk

Michael Ellmann | George L. Hardman | Ellen T. Harris | Glenn A. KnicKrehm

Miles Morgan | Bettina A. Norton | Lee S. Ridgway | Ganesh Sundaram

BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Diane Britton | Gregory E. Bulger | Robert E. Kulp, Jr. | James S. Nicolson

Amanda Pond | Robert Strassler | Donald E. Vaughan

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Marty Gottron & John Felton, Co-Chairs

Mary Briggs | Deborah Ferro Burke | Mary Deissler | James A. Glazier

Edward B. Kellogg | John Krzywicki | Douglas M. Robbe | Jacob Skowronek

MEMBERS OF THE BEMF CORPORATION

Jon Aaron

Debra K.S. Anderson

Kathryn Bertelli

Mary Briggs

Diane Britton

Douglas M. Brooks

Gregory E. Bulger

Julian G. Bullitt

Deborah Ferro Burke

John A. Carey

Anne P. Chalmers

Bernice K. Chen

Joel I. Cohen

Brit d’Arbeloff

Vivian Day

Mary Deissler

Peter L. DeWolf

JoAnne W. Dickinson

Richard J. Dix

Alan Durfee

Michael Ellmann

Peter L. Faber

Emily C. Farnsworth

Dorothy R. Fay†

Kathleen Fay

John Felton

Frances C. Fitch

Claire Fontijn

Randolph J. Fuller

James A. Glazier

Marty Gottron

Carol A. Haber

David Halstead

George L. Hardman

Ellen T. Harris

Richard Hester

Jessica Honigberg

Jennifer Ritvo Hughes

Edward B. Kellogg

Thomas F. Kelly

Glenn A. KnicKrehm

Christine Kodis

John Krzywicki

Kathryn Kucharski

Robert E. Kulp, Jr.

Ellen Kushner

Christopher Laconi

Lois A. Lampson

Thomas G. MacCracken

William Magretta

Bill McJohn

Miles Morgan

Nancy Netzer

Amy H. Nicholls

James S. Nicolson

Bettina A. Norton

Scott Offen

Lorna E. Oleck

Henry P.M. Paap

James M. Perrin

Bici Pettit-Barron

Amanda Pond

Melvyn Pond

Paul Rabin

Christa Rakich

Lee S. Ridgway

Michael Rigsby

Douglas M. Robbe

Michael Robbins

Susan L. Robinson

Patsy Rogers

Wendy Rolfe-Dunham

Loretto Roney

Thomas Roney

Ellen Rosand

Valerie Sarles

David W. Scudder

Andrew Sigel

Jacob Skowronek

Arlene Snyder

Jon Solins

Robert Strassler

Ganesh Sundaram

Adrian C. Touw

Peggy Ueda

Donald E. Vaughan

Ingeborg von Huene

Nikolaus von Huene

Howard J. Wagner

Benjamin D. Weiss

Ruth S. Westheimer

Allan Winkler

Hal Winslow

Christoph Wolff

Arnold B. Zetcher

Ellen Zetcher †

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2022–2023 NAMED GIFT SPONSORSHIPS

Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals for their leadership support of our 2022–2023 Season:

David Halstead and Jay Santos

Sponsors of the October 2022 performance by Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor, and Ensemble Artaserse

Joan Margot Smith

Sponsor of the November 2022 performance by Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director

Two Local Fans

Sponsors of the February 2022 performance by Bach Collegium Japan with Masaaki Suzuki, Director, and Roderick Williams OBE, baritone

Lorna E. Oleck

Sponsor of the March 2023 performance by Quicksilver

Partial Sponsor of BEMF’s Community Engagement Program and the June 2023 presentation of BEMF Beyond Borders

Peter L. and Joan S. Faber

Partial Sponsors of BEMF’s Community Engagement Program and the June 2023 presentation of BEMF Beyond Borders

David M. Kozak and Anne Pistell

Sponsors of the December 2022 performance by The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips, Director in memory of their parents

Diane and John Paul Britton

Sponsors of Robert Mealy, Co-director and violin, for his March 2023 performance with Quicksilver

Donald E. Vaughan and Lee S. Ridgway

Sponsors of Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor, for his October 2022 performance

Joanne Zervas Sattley

Partial Sponsor of the March 2023 performance by Chiaroscuro Quartet

Amanda and Melvyn Pond

Partial Sponsors of BEMF’s Community Engagement Program and the June 2023 presentation of BEMF Beyond Borders

You can help make this list grow. For more information about investing in BEMF performances with a Named Gift, please email Kathleen Fay at kathy@bemf.org, or call the BEMF office at 617-661-1812. Your support makes a difference. Thank you.

Boson Early Music Fesival PRESENTS

Stile Antico

England’s Nightingale

The remarkable music of William Byrd

Emendemus in melius William Byrd (ca. 1540–1623)

“A GOOD EGG”

Byrd, the loyal subject

O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth Byrd

Sing joyfully Byrd

Nunc Dimittis from “Great Service” Byrd

“THE CAGED BIRD”

Byrd, the Catholic at court

Vide Domine afflictionem nostram Byrd

Haec dies quam fecit Dominus Byrd

Ne irascaris, Domine Byrd

m BRIEF PAUSE (Kindly Remain Seated) n

“A COUNTRY NEST”

Byrd, the Essex Gentleman

Retire my soul Byrd

Ave verum corpus Byrd

Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes Byrd

Optimam partem elegit Byrd

Factus est repente Byrd

Agnus Dei from Mass for Four Voices Byrd

Domine Dominus noster

Ecce vicit Leo

Byrd, the “much reverenced master”

Thomas Morley (ca. 1557–1602)

Peter Philips (ca. 1560–1628)

Too much I once lamented Thomas Tomkins (ca. 1572–1656)

Laudibus in sanctis Byrd

LIVE CONCERT

Friday, April 28, 2023 at 8pm St. Paul Church in Harvard Square Bow and Arrow Streets, Cambridge, Massachusetts

VIRTUAL CONCERT

Friday, May 12, 2023 – Friday, May 26, 2023

BEMF.org

STILE ANTICO

Helen Ashby, Kate Ashby, Rebecca Hickey, soprano

Emma Ashby, Cara Curran, Rosie Parker, alto Andrew Griffiths, Jonathan Hanley, Benedict Hymas, tenor James Arthur, Will Dawes, Nathan Harrison, bass

Program subject to change.

Ball Square Films & Kathy Wittman, Video Production Antonio Oliart Ros, Recording Engineer

This concert is organized with the cooperation of Knudsen Productions, LLC, exclusive North American artist representative of Stile Antico.

This program is devised to accompany Stile Antico’s second album for Decca Classics, released early in 2023 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Byrd’s death.

“UNDER HIS WING”

Boson Early Music Fesival

2022 CHAMBER OPERA SERIES NAMED GIFT SPONSORSHIPS

Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals and organizations for their leadership support of the November 2022 BEMF Chamber Opera Series performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil:

Constellation Charitable Foundation

Sponsor of the Production

Joan Margot Smith

Sponsor of Melinda Sullivan, Choreographer

Sponsor of Phoebe Carrai, violoncello, and Laura Jeppesen, viola, BEMF Chamber Ensemble

Andrew Sigel

Sponsor of Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano, Jason McStoots, tenor, and John Taylor Ward, bass-baritone, BEMF Vocal Ensemble

David Halstead and Jay Santos

Sponsors of Teresa Wakim, soprano, and Aaron Sheehan, tenor, BEMF Vocal Ensemble

Lorna E. Oleck

Sponsor of Robert Mealy, Concertmaster

Sponsor of Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano, BEMF Vocal Ensemble

Bernice K. Chen

Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director

Elizabeth Davidson

Sponsor of David Morris, viola da gamba

PROGRAM NOTES

Qui decus es generi genti Philomelaque nostrae; Birde precor longum voce manuque canas!

“You who are a glory to our race, and a nightingale to our people, Byrd, I pray that you may make music with voice and hand for a long time!”

These words were penned by Robert Dow, who copied his favorite music into a beautiful set of partbooks during the 1580s. He included many more works by Byrd than by any other composer—some nineteen Latin motets, as well as English songs and instrumental music—reflecting Byrd’s undoubted status as England’s preeminent musician following the death of Tallis in 1585.

Now in his early forties, Byrd enjoyed a wellpaid job-for-life at Elizabeth I’s Chapel Royal, and the sole monopoly to publish music in England. A less principled man might have settled for a quiet life of court privilege. Not Byrd: even as he burnished his reputation as a composer of Anglican music at court, he associated with notorious English Catholics and Jesuit missionaries from overseas, and participated in secret Catholic worship. The dangers were real, especially in the febrile years surrounding the failed Spanish Armada:

the authorities considered Catholicism akin to sedition, with punishments to match. Yet Byrd not only survived—almost certainly due to royal favor—but became the musical mouthpiece for England’s persecuted Catholics, producing a stream of works which eloquently articulated their predicament.

There was nothing intrinsically subversive about writing Latin motets in Elizabethan England; Tallis and Byrd had inaugurated their publishing monopoly by dedicating a collection of them to the Queen, albeit with a careful title: Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur—“Songs which on account of their subject matter are called sacred.” (Byrd’s arrestingly declamatory Emendemus in melius is his opening contribution to this 1575 volume, and makes for an auspicious début in print.) The market for such works was not Anglican worship, where Latin was forbidden, but the musical cognoscenti who would meet to sing and play them for their edification and enjoyment. A flavor of such occasions is given by the evergreen maxim also found in Dow’s books: “wine and music gladden the heart.”

Nevertheless, the Latin motet was falling out of fashion in England. By 1599 Thomas Morley could describe it as “little esteemed,” and Byrd’s solo Cantiones volumes of 1589

WILLIAM BYRD Engraving by Gerard van der Gucht, after a posthumous drawing by Nicola Francesco Haym (ca. 1729)

and 1591 can be considered the spectacular final flowering of the genre. They draw together perhaps a decade of work: many of the motets are known from earlier manuscript sources, including Dow’s books. Laudibus in sanctis, an object lesson in word-painting that would shame many a madrigal, is one of the few works newly written for publication; its exuberance stands in sharp contrast to the grave nature of many of the other motets, particularly in the 1589 collection.

The prevailing gloom is no accident. Byrd’s texts are often pleas for divine aid, expressions of anguished soul-searching, or—as in Vide Domine and Ne irascaris, Domine—laments on the fall of Jerusalem and the Israelite exile in Babylon, commonly used by English Catholics as metaphors for their own plight. Byrd’s remarkable music underscores such a reading: it is surely some of the most exquisite, heartfelt, and moving ever conceived for voices. He shows a profoundly modern awareness of rhetorical gesture and harmonic nuance: the heartbreaking simplicity of “Sion deserta est” and the bittersweet use of the major mode in Ne irascaris, or the chilling harmonic turn at “Hierusalem facta est desolata” in Vide Domine, are only the most obvious examples. Even an apparently festive work like Haec dies carries an undertone: when the Jesuit Edmund Campion was sentenced to death, he responded by declaiming exactly this text. As Patrick Macey has written, “it is difficult not to hear this joyous music as an evocation of Campion’s exultation in the courtroom.”

While such motets were surely frowned upon by those who had ears to hear, it is even more remarkable that Byrd dared to publish settings of the Mass in Latin. The Catholic liturgy had been prohibited by law for more than thirty years, and he could hardly have argued that they were for dilettante enjoyment. His three settings were published in simple pamphlets between 1592 and 1595, and the task was perilous enough that the printer, Thomas East, declined to identify himself. The four-part Mass was the first to appear; its Agnus Dei begins with a perfectly judged duet for the upper voices, before building to an intense, and ultimately cathartic, conclusion.

Almost exactly as he finished publishing his masses, Byrd and his family relocated to Stondon Massey in Essex, close to his Catholic patron Sir John Petre. He retained his membership of the Chapel Royal in absentia, and continued to provide music for Anglican worship. The elaborate and highly inventive Great Service for two five-voice choirs probably dates from the late 1590s, as does the anthem Sing joyfully, which was sufficiently popular that it was sung at the christening of James I’s daughter in 1605. (The other Anglican work on our program, the touching O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth, is a much earlier work, possibly composed in the 1560s when Byrd was organist at Lincoln.)

The chief work of Byrd’s Essex years was however his Gradualia: a complete cycle of music for the Catholic feasts, published in two volumes in 1605 and 1607. It was surely written for use in Petre’s chapel, where skilled musicians were available; their secret services must have been the most musically thrilling Catholic masses held in England since Byrd’s days as a choirboy during the reign of Queen Mary. The music of Gradualia could hardly be more different to the Cantiones motets. It radiates confidence, whether in the quiet devotion of the famous Ave verum corpus (Corpus Christi) and the exquisite Optimam partem eligit (Assumption), or in the playful exuberance of Factus est repente (Pentecost) and the extra-liturgical motet Laudate Dominum. It is not hard to imagine Byrd’s heart full as he undertook this labor of love, or as he penned his elegiac song Retire my soul, which appears in his final publication, the Psalms, Songs and Sonnets of 1611.

Although Byrd was held in universal esteem, he must have seemed a conservative figure by the time of his death; the madrigal craze, for example, largely passed him by. Nevertheless, he was a respected teacher: in dedicating his madrigal Too much I once lamented to Byrd, Thomas Tomkins called him “my ancient, & most reverenced master.” Thomas Morley must have been amongst his earliest students; his apprentice work Domine Dominus noster, written in 1576 when he was nineteen, goes so far as to conclude with five bars borrowed from

Byrd’s 1575 Libera me Domine. Peter Philips also studied with Byrd before emigrating in 1582, though as a Catholic exile in Europe, his music developed in a very different direction: the stylistic chasm between Byrd’s work and Philips’ Italianate Ecce vicit Leo, published in 1613, could scarcely be wider. And yet it is hard not to echo the assessment of Henry Peacham, in his 1622 book The Compleat

ARTIST PROFILES

Gentleman: “For motets, and music of piety and devotion… I prefer above all other our Phoenix, M. William Byrd, whom in that kind, I know not whether any may equal, I am sure, none excel, even by the judgment of France and Italy.”

—Andrew Griffiths

Stile Antico  is firmly established as one of the world’s most accomplished and innovative vocal ensembles. Working without a conductor, its twelve members have thrilled audiences on four continents with their fresh, vibrant, and moving performances of Renaissance polyphony. Its bestselling recordings have earned accolades including the Gramophone Award for Early Music, Diapason d’Or de l’Année, Edison Klassiek Award, and Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. The group has received three Grammy nominations, and performed live at the 60th Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden.

Based in London, Stile Antico has appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals. The group enjoys a particularly close association with Wigmore Hall, and has performed at the BBC Proms, Buckingham Palace, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Cité de la Musique, Luxembourg Philharmonie, and Leipzig Gewandhaus. Stile Antico is frequently invited to appear at Europe’s

leading festivals: highlights include the Antwerp, Bruges, Utrecht, and York Early Music Festivals, the Lucerne Easter Festival, and the SchleswigHolstein Music Festival.

Since its 2009 North American début at the Boston Early Music Festival, Stile Antico has enjoyed frequent tours to the U.S. and Canada. The group performs regularly in Boston and New York, and has appeared at the Ravinia Festival, Washington’s National Cathedral and Library of Congress, Vancouver’s Chan Centre, and in concert series spanning twenty-five U.S. states. Stile Antico has also appeared in Mexico and Colombia, and in 2018 visited East Asia for the first time, performing in Korea, Macau, and Hong Kong.

Stile Antico’s performances are often praised for their immediacy, expressive commitment, and their sensitive and imaginative response to text. These qualities arise from the group’s collaborative working style: members

rehearse and perform as chamber musicians, each contributing artistically to the musical results. The group is also noted for its compelling programming, which often draws out thematic connections between works to shine new light on Renaissance music. In addition to its core repertoire, Stile Antico has premiered works by Joanna Marsh, John McCabe, Nico Muhly, Giles Swayne, and Huw Watkins. The group’s diverse range of collaborators includes Fretwork, Folger Consort, Marino Formenti, B’Rock, Rihab Azar, and Sting.

Alongside its concert and recording work, Stile Antico is passionate about sharing its repertoire and working style with the widest possible audience, and its masterclasses and workshops are much in demand. As well as leading regular courses at the Dartington International Summer School, the group has been resident at Zenobia Música, and is often invited to work alongside ensembles at universities, festivals, and early music forums. The support of the charitable Stile Antico Foundation has enabled Stile Antico to expand its work with younger people, and to

offer bursaries to talented young professional singers and ensembles.

The COVID-19 pandemic saw Stile Antico throw its energies into digital projects, producing a “virtual choir” recording of Tallis’s Spem in alium, a music film to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage, and two series of lecture-recitals. The group also gave live-streamed concerts from Wigmore Hall and York Early Music Festival, created filmed recitals for Boston Early Music Festival, Live from London, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Laus Polyphoniae (Antwerp), and inaugurated a new series of recordings on the Decca Classics label with The Golden Renaissance: Josquin, winner of the Gramophone Award for Spatial Audio.

During 2022–2023 Stile Antico is Ensemble-inResidence at the University Church in Oxford, and tours to the U.S., Belgium, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The group’s second disc for Decca Classics, marking 400 years since the death of William Byrd, was released early in 2023. n

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

Emendemus in melius — Byrd

Emendemus in melius

quae ignoranter peccavimus; ne subito praeoccupati die mortis, quaeramus spatium poenitentiae, et invenire non possimus.

Attende, Domine, et miserere; quia peccavimus tibi.

Adiuva nos, Deus salutaris noster, et propter honorem nominis tui libera nos.

—Matins respond, first Sunday of Lent

O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth — Byrd

Let us amend the sins that in our ignorance we have committed: lest the day of death come upon us suddenly, and we find no place for repentance, though we seek it.

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned against thee. Help us, O God of our salvation: for the glory of thy Name deliver us.

O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen to rejoice in thy strength: give her her heart’s desire, and deny not the request of her lips; but prevent her with thine everlasting blessing, and give her a long life, e’en for ever and ever. Amen.

—Adapted from Psalm 121 for Elizabeth I

Sing joyfully — Byrd

Sing joyfully unto God our strength; sing loud unto the God of Jacob! Take the song, and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp, and the viol. Blow the trumpet in the new moon, even in the time appointed, and at our feast day. For this is a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

—Psalm 81:1–4

Nunc Dimittus from “Great Service” — Byrd

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.

—Luke 2:29–31

Vide Domine afflictionem nostram — Byrd

Vide Domine afflictionem nostram, et in tempore maligno ne derelinquas nos.

Plusquam Hierusalem

facta est deserta, civitas electa, gaudium cordis nostri, conversum est in luctum, et jocunditas nostra in amaritudinem conversa est.

Sed veni, Domine, et noli tardare, et revoca dispersos in civitatem tuam. Da nobis, Domine, pacem tuam diu desideratam, pax sanctissima, et miserere populi tui gementis et flentis, Domine Deus noster.

—Anonymous

Haec dies quam fecit Dominus — Byrd

Haec dies quam fecit Dominus; exsultemus et laetemur in ea. Alleluia.

—Psalm 117:24

Ne irascaris, Domine — Byrd

Ne irascaris, Domine satis, et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostrae. Ecce respice populus tuus omnes nos.

Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta.

Sion deserta facta est, Jerusalem desolata est.

—Isaiah 64:9–10

Behold O Lord our affliction, and in an evil time do not forsake us. How much more than when Jerusalem, the chosen city, was laid waste, is our hearts’ rejoicing turned to mourning, and our joy to bitterness.

But come O Lord and do not tarry, and call back the scattered ones into thy city. Give us O Lord thy peace daily desired, thy most holy peace, and have mercy on thy groaning and weeping people, O Lord our God. This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad on it. Alleluia.

Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: Behold, see we are all thy people.

The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made desert, Jerusalem is desolate.

m BRIEF PAUSE n

Retire my soul — Byrd

Retire my soul, consider thine estate, And justly sum thy lavish sin’s account.

Time’s dear expense, and costly pleasures rate,

How follies grow, how vanities amount. Write all these down, in pale Death’s reckoning tables, Thy days will seem but dreams, thy hopes but fables.

Ave verum corpus — Byrd

Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria virgine. Vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine. Cuius latus perforatum unda fluxit sanguine. Esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine.

O dulcis, o pie, o Iesu, fili Mariae, miserere mei. Amen.

—Pope Innocent VI

Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes — Byrd

Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes; laudate eum, omnes populi. Quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia eius, et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.

—Psalm 116

Optimam partem elegit — Byrd

Optimam partem elegit sibi Maria quae non auferetur ab ea in aeternum.

—Communion motet for Assumption

Factus est repente — Byrd

Factus est repente de coelo sonus, tamquam advenientis spiritus vehementis ubi erant sedentes, Alleluia; et repleti sunt omnes Spiritu Sancto, loquentes magnalia Dei, Alleluia.

—Communion motet for Pentecost

Agnus Dei — Byrd

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

—Mass Ordinary

Domine Dominus noster — Morley

Domine Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra.

—Psalm 8:1

—William Byrd

Hail, true body, born of the Virgin Mary; you who truly suffered and were sacrificed on the cross for the sake of man. From whose pierced flank flowed water and blood: be a foretaste for us in the trial of death.

O sweet, O merciful, O Jesus, Son of Mary, have mercy upon me. Amen.

Praise our Lord, all ye gentiles; praise him all ye people. Because his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth forever.

Mary has chosen for herself the best part which shall never be taken from her.

Suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming where they were sitting. Alleluia. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, speaking the wonderful works of God. Alleluia.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth.

Ecce vicit Leo — Philips

Ecce vicit Leo de tribu Juda, radix David, aperire librum, et solvere septem signacula eius. Alleluia.

Dignus est Agnus qui occisus est, accipere virtutem, et divinitatem, et sapientiam, et fortitudinem, et honorem, et gloriam, et benedictionem. Alleluia.

—Revelation 5:5, 12

Too much I once lamented — Tomkins

Too much I once lamented, while love my heart tormented, fa la la la.

Alas, and ay me, sat I wringing, now chanting go, and singing, fa la la la.

Laudibus in sanctis — Byrd

—Anonymous

Laudibus in sanctis Dominum celebrate supremum: firmamenta sonent inclita facta Dei.

Inclita facta Dei cantate, sacraque potentis voce potestatem saepe sonate manus.

Magnificum Domini cantet tuba martia nomen:

Pieria Domino concelebrate lira.

Laude Dei resonent resonantia tympana summi:

Alta sacri resonent organa laude Dei.

Hunc arguta canant tenui

psalteria corda,

hunc agili laudet laeta chorea pede.

Concava divinas effundant cymbala laudes, Cymbala dulcisona

laude repleta Dei.

Omne quod aethereis in mundo vescitur auris, Halleluia canat

tempus in omne Deo.

—Adapted from Psalm 150

Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. Alleluia.

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and godliness, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. Alleluia.

Celebrate the Lord most high in holy praises: let the firmament resound with the glorious deeds of God. Sing of the glorious deeds of God, and with a sacred voice oft extol the power of his mighty hand.

Let the warlike trumpet sing the magnificent name of the Lord: give praises to the Lord with the Pierian lyre. Let the resounding timbrels echo with praise of the Lord most high: Let the organs sound with praise of holy God.

Let the harmonious psalteries with fine string sing of Him, Let the joyful dance praise Him with nimble foot. Let the hollow cymbals pour forth divine praises, the sweet-sounding cymbals filled with the praise of God. Let everything in the world which feeds upon the air of heaven, sing “Alleluia!” to God for evermore.

Make a Difference Boson Early Music Fesival

Boson Early Music Fesival

The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is universally recognized as a leader in the field of early music. Since its founding in 1980 by leading practitioners of historical performance in the United States and abroad, BEMF has promoted early music through a variety of diverse programs and activities, including an annual concert series that brings early music’s brightest stars to the Boston and New York concert stages, and the biennial weeklong Festival and Exhibition, recognized as “the world’s leading festival of early music” (The Times, London). Through its programs BEMF has earned its place as North America’s premier presenting organization for music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has secured Boston’s reputation as “America’s early music capital” (Boston Globe).

INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE OPERA

One of BEMF’s main goals is to unearth and present lesser-known Baroque operas performed by the world’s leading musicians armed with the latest information on period singing, orchestral performance, scenic design, costuming, dance, and staging. BEMF operas reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe to one stage for historic presentations, all zestfully led from the pit by the BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and creatively reimagined for the stage by BEMF Opera Director Gilbert Blin.

The twenty-first biennial Boston Early Music Festival in June 2021 took place virtually, and featured a video presentation of André Campra’s extraordinary  Le Carnaval de Venise  from the June 2017 Festival. The twenty-second Festival, in June 2023, will have as its centerpiece Henry Desmarest’s 1694 opera Circé from a libretto by LouiseGeneviève Gillot de Saintonge, which will feature the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, a troupe of dancers under the guidance of BEMF Dance Director Melinda Sullivan.

BEMF introduced its Chamber Opera Series during its annual concert season in

InternatIonal Baroque opera • CeleBrated ConCerts • World-Famous exhIBItIon

AMANDA FORSYTHE IN BEMF’S 2013 PRODUCTION OF HANDEL’S ALMIRA

PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

November 2008, with a performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and MarcAntoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series focuses on the wealth of chamber operas composed during the Baroque period, while providing an increasing number of local opera aficionados the opportunity to attend one of BEMF’s superb offerings. Subsequent annual productions include George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combined performances of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, a production titled “Versailles” featuring Les Plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier, Les Fontaines de Versailles by Michel-Richard de Lalande, and divertissements from Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino, and most recently joint performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a four-city North American Tour in early 2011, which included a performance at the American Handel Festival in Seattle, and in 2014, BEMF’s second North American Tour featured the Charpentier double bill from 2011.

BEMF has a well-established and highly successful project to record some of its

groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera. The first three recordings in this series were all nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in 2005, 2007, and 2008: the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne, by Johann Georg Conradi; Lully’s Thésée; and the 2007 Festival opera, Lully’s Psyché, which was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “superbly realized…magnificent.” In addition, the BEMF recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché received Gramophone Award Nominations in the Baroque Vocal category in 2008 and 2009, respectively. BEMF’s next three recordings on the German CPO label were drawn from its Chamber Opera Series: Charpentier’s Actéon, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and a release of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the 2015 Echo Klassik Opera Recording of the Year (17th/18th Century Opera). Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Karina Gauvin, which was released in January 2015 on the Erato/Warner Classics label in conjunction with a seven-city, fourcountry European concert tour of the opera, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, was named Gramophone’s Recording of the Month for March 2015, is the 2015 Echo Klassik World Premiere Recording of the Year, and has received a 2015 Diapason

SCENE FROM BEMF’S 2022 PRODUCTION OF LULLY’S IDYLLE SUR LA PAIX

PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

d’Or de l’Année and a 2015 Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was released in November 2015. In 2017, while maintaining the focus on Baroque opera, BEMF expanded the recording project to include other select Baroque vocal works: a new Steffani disc, Duets of Love and Passion, was released in September 2017 in conjunction with a sixcity North American tour, and a recording of Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion was released in March 2018. Four Baroque opera releases followed in 2019 and 2020: a disc of Charpentier’s chamber operas Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Les Arts Florissants was released at the June 2019 Festival, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award; the 2013 Festival opera, Handel’s Almira, was released in late 2019, and received a Diapason d’Or. Lalande’s chamber opera Les Fontaines de Versailles was featured on a September 2020 release of the composer’s works; Christoph Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica was released in December 2020.

CELEBRATED CONCERTS

Some of the most thrilling musical moments at the biennial Festival occur during one of the dozen or more concerts presented around the clock, which always include the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led by Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and which often feature unique, oncein-a-lifetime collaborations and programs by the spectacular array of talent assembled for the Festival week’s events. In 1989, BEMF

established an annual concert series bringing early music’s leading soloists and ensembles to the Boston concert stage to meet the growing demand for regular world-class performances of early music’s beloved classics and newly discovered works. BEMF then expanded its concert series in 2006, when it extended its performances to New York City’s Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, providing “a shot in the arm for New York’s relatively modest earlymusic scene” (New York Times).

WORLD-FAMOUS EXHIBITION

The nerve center of the biennial Festival, the Exhibition is the largest event of its kind in the United States, showcasing nearly one hundred early instrument makers, music publishers, service organizations, schools and universities, and associated colleagues. In 2013, Mozart’s own violin and viola were displayed at the Exhibition, in their first-ever visit to the United States. Every other June, hundreds of professional musicians, students, and enthusiasts come from around the world to purchase instruments, restock their libraries, learn about recent musicological developments, and renew old friendships. For four days, they visit the Exhibition booths to browse, discover, and purchase, and attend the dozens of symposia, masterclasses, and demonstration recitals, all of which encourage a deeper appreciation of early music, and strengthen relationships between musicians, participants, and audiences. n

A STANDING OVATION FOR LA STORIA DI ORFEO IN NOVEMBER 2019

PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

BECOME A FRIEND OF THE

Boson Early Music Fesival

Revenue from ticket sales, even from a sold-out performance, accounts for less than half of the total cost of producing BEMF’s operas and concerts; the remainder is derived almost entirely from generous friends like you. With your help, we will be able to build upon the triumphs of the past, and continue to bring you thrilling performances by today’s finest Early Music artists.

Our membership organization, the FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, includes donors from around the world. These individuals recognize the Festival’s need for further financial support in order to fulfill its aim of serving as a showcase for the finest talent in the field.

PLEASE JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL BY DONATING AT ONE OF SEVERAL LEVELS:

• Friend $45

• Partner $100

• Associate $250

• Patron $500

• Guarantor $1,000

• Benefactor $2,500

• Leadership Circle $5,000

• Artistic Director’s Circle $10,000

• Festival Angel $25,000

THREE WAYS TO GIVE:

• Visit BEMF.org and click on “Give Now”.

• Call BEMF at 617-661-1812 to donate by telephone using your credit card

• Mail your credit card information or a check (payable to BEMF) to Boston Early Music Festival, 43 Thorndike Street, Suite 302, Cambridge, MA 02141-1764

OTHER WAYS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT:

• Increase your philanthropic impact with a Matching Gift from your employer.

• Make a gift of appreciated stocks or bonds to BEMF.

• Planned Giving allows you to support BEMF in perpetuity while achieving your financial goals.

• Direct your gift to a particular area that interests you with a Named Gift.

QUESTIONS? Please e-mail Kathleen Fay at kathy@bemf.org, or call the BEMF office at 617-661-1812. Thank you for your support!

Boson Early Music Fesival

This list reflects donations received from July 1, 2021 to April 5, 2023

FESTIVAL ANGELS

($25,000 or more)

Anonymous (3)

Bernice K. & Ted† Chen

Brit d’Arbeloff

Susan Donaldson

David R. Elliott†

Peter L. & Joan S. Faber

Dorothy Ryan Fay†

David Halstead & Jay Santos

George L. Hardman

Glenn A. KnicKrehm

David M. Kozak & Anne Pistell, in memory of their parents

Miles Morgan

Lorna E. Oleck

Susan L. Robinson

Andrew Sigel, in memory of Richard Sigel & Carol Davis

Joan Margot Smith

Piroska Soos†

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE

($10,000 or more)

Anonymous (2)

Anonymous, in memory of Ted Chen

Annemarie Altman

Katie & Paul Buttenwieser

Susan Denison

Tony Elitcher & Andrea Taras

Marie-Pierre & Michael Ellmann

Lori Fay & Christopher Cherry, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay

James A. Glazier

Donald Goldstein, in memory of Constance Kellert Goldstein

Ellen T. & John T. Harris

Barbara & Amos Hostetter

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. MacCracken

Heather Mac Donald & Erich Eichman

Bill McJohn

Ruth McKay & Don Campbell

Nina & Timothy Rose

David Scudder, in memory of Marie Louise Scudder

Karen Tenney & Thomas Loring

Donald E. Vaughan & Lee S. Ridgway

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

($5,000 or more)

Anonymous

Mary Briggs & John Krzywicki

Diane & John Paul Britton

Douglas M. & Aviva A. Brooks

Beth Brown, in memory of Walter R.J. Brown

Gregory E. Bulger & Richard J. Dix

Elizabeth Davidson, in honor of David Morris

Jean Fuller Farrington

Kathleen Fay, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay

John Felton & Marty Gottron

Judy & Wayne Hall

Robert E. Kulp, Jr.

Victor & Ruth McElheny

Kenneth C. Ritchie & Paul T. Schmidt

Joanne Zervas Sattley

Maria van Kalken & Hal Winslow, in memory of Adrian van Kalken

Will & Alexandra Watkins

Christoph & Barbara† Wolff

BENEFACTORS

($2,500 or more)

Anonymous (2)

Alan Brener

Pamela & Lee Bromberg

Robert Burger

Joan & Frank Conlon

Peter & Katie DeWolf

Katherine Goodman

Maarten Janssen & Rosan Kuhn-Daalmeijer

Alan M. King

Dr. Peter Libby, in memory of Dr. Beryl Benacerraf

Harriet Lindblom, in memory of Daniel Lindblom

Marianne & Terry Louderback

Stephen Moody

Michael & Karen Rotenberg

Raymond A. & Marilyn Smith

Richard K. & Kerala J. Snyder

Keith S. Tóth & John B. Herrington III

GUARANTORS

($1,000 or more)

Anonymous (11)

Dee Dee & John Brinkema, in memory of Bobby Brinkema

Amy Brown & Brian Carr

James Burr

Shannon Canavin

Betty Canick

John A. Carey

David J. Chavolla

Carla Chrisfield & Benjamin D. Weiss

J. R. Colofiore

Dr. Franklyn & Mary Beth Commisso

Linzee Coolidge

Joseph E. Coppola

Mary Cowden

Richard & Constance Culley

The Cusack Family, in memory of J. Howland Auchincloss

Belden & Pamela Daniels

Jeffrey Del Papa

Alan Durfee

Henk Elderhorst

Charles & Elizabeth Emerson

David Emery & Olimpia Velez

Thomas G. Evans

Michael E. Fay

Claire Fontijn, in memory of Dr. Arthur Fontijn

Bruce A. Garetz

Sarah M. Gates

David & Harriet Griesinger

Peter B. & Harriette Griffin

Phillip Hanvy

Dr. Robert L. Harris

Rebecca & Ronald Harris-Warrick

H. Jan & Ruth H. Heespelink

Michael Herz & Jean Roiphe

Sally Hodges

Linda Hodgkinson

Jessica Honigberg

Jane Hoover

Thomas M. Hout & Sonja Ellingson Hout, in honor of Kathy Fay for her hard work

Barry Kernfeld & Sally McMurry

Fran & Tom Knight

Kathryn Mary Kucharski

Robert & Mary La Porte

Frederick V. Lawrence, in memory of Rosemarie Lawrence

Amelia J. LeClair & Garrow Throop

John Leen & Eileen Koven

Catherine Liddell

Lawrence & Susan Liden

Roger & Susan Lipsey

Mark & Mary Lunsford

William & Joan Magretta

John S. Major & Valerie Steele

David McCarthy & John Kolody

Amy & Brian McCreath

Marilyn Miller

Robert Neer & Ann Eldridge

John M.† & Bettina A. Norton

Keith Ohmart & Helen Chen

Clara M. & John S. O’Shea

Richard & Lois Pace, in honor of Peter Faber

Gene & Margaret Pokorny

Amanda & Melvyn Pond

Susan Pundt

Paul Rabin & Arlene Snyder

Alice Robbins & Walter Denny, in honor of Kathy Fay

Michael Robbins

Jose M. Rodriguez & Richard A. Duffy

Kevin Ryan & Ozerk Gogus, in memory of Dot Fay

Irwin Sarason, in memory of Suzanne Sarason

Susan Sargent & Tom Peters

Lynne & Ralph Schatz

Arah Schuur

Wendy Shattuck & Sam Plimpton

Laila Awar Shouhayib

Cynthia Siebert

Elizabeth Snow

Murray & Hazel Somerville, in honor of Robert Mealy

Catherine & Keith Stevenson

Campbell Steward

David & Jean Stout

Carl Swanson

Lisa Teot

Adrian & Michelle Touw

Paula & Peter Tyack

Kathy H. Udall

Patrick Wallace & Laurie McNeil

Peter J. Wender

Allan & Joann Winkler

PATRONS

($500 or more)

Anonymous (9)

Morton Abromson & Joan Nissman

Debra K. S. & Brian Anderson, in honor of Kathleen M. Fay

Eric Hall Anderson

Margaret Angelini & John McLeod

Barry & Sarita Ashar

Louise Basbas

William & Ann Bein

Michael & Sheila Berke

John Birks

Tracey Blueman & Brandon L. Bigelow

Susan Bromley

Elizabeth A.R. Brown & Ralph S. Brown, Jr., in honor of Kathleen Fay

Julie Brown & Zachary Morowitz

Caroline A. Bruzelius, in memory of Kristin Mortimer

Carolyn Bryant-Sarles

Robert Burton & Karen Peterson

Robert & Elizabeth Carroll

JoAnne Chernow

Floyd & Aleeta Christian

Sherryl & Gerard Cohen

Joseph Connors

Geoffrey Craddock

Eric & Margaret Darling

Leigh Deacon

Carl E. Dettman

JoAnne Walter Dickinson

Diane L. Droste

Ross Duffin & Beverly Simmons, in honor of Kathleen Fay

Gabriel Ellsworth

Austin & Eileen Farrar

Nicole Faulkner

Charles Fisk & Louis Risoli

Martin & Kathleen Fogle

Elizabeth French

Jonathan Friedes & Qian Huang

Frederick & Barbara Gable

Sandy Gadsby & Nancy Brown

Christopher K. Gaffney, in memory of Bill Crocker

The Goldsmith Family

Eric & Dee Hansen

Elizabeth B. Hardy, in memory of Renate Wolter-Seevers

David J. Harris, MD

Joan E. Hartman

James & Ina Heup

George Humphrey

Charles B. Hunter

Laura Jeppesen & Daniel Stepner

Paul & Alice Johnson

Judith L. Johnston & Bruce L. Bush, in memory of Daniel Lindblom

Ronald Karr

Thomas F. Kelly & Peggy Badenhausen

Art & Linda Kingdon

Robert L. Kleinberg

Jason Knutson

Jasper Lawson

Sarah Leaf-Herrmann

Joanne & Carl Leaman

Rob & Mary Joan Leith

Susan Lewinnek

Marcia Lieberman

James Liu & Alexandra Bowers

Dr. Gary Ljungquist

Robert & Janice Locke

Kenneth S. Loveday

MAFAA

Jeffrey & Barbara Mandula

Carol Marsh

Carol & Pedro Martinez

Anne H. Matthews

June Matthews

Jeffrey G. Mora & Wendy Fuller-Mora

Alan & Kathy Muirhead

Louise Oremland

Richard & Julia Osborne

John R. Palys

William J. Pananos

Henry Paulus

Kitty Pell

Joseph L. Pennacchio

Susan Pettee & Michael Wise

Pamela Posey

Anne & François Poulet

Tracy Powers

Harold I. Pratt

Mahadev & Ambika Raman

Sandy Reismann & Dr. Nanu Brates

Marge Roberts

Arthur & Elaine Robins

Patsy Rogers

Ellen Rosand

Nancy & Ronald Rucker

Carlton & Lorna Russell

Rusty Russell

Phil & Catherine Saines

Suzanne Sarason†

Sharon Scaramozza

Len & Louise Schaper

Charles & Mary Ann Schultz

Bettina Siewert, M.D. & Douglas L. Teich, M.D., in memory of David Elliott

Louisa C. Spottswood

Paola Stone, in memory of Edmondo Malanotte

Theresa & Charles Stone

Lonice Thomas

Mark S. Thurber & Susan M. Galli

Nancy M. Tooney

Peter Tremain

Reed & Peggy Ueda

Peter & Kathleen Van Demark

Mark Vangel, in memory of Monica Strauss

Kathleen Wittman & Melanie Andrade

Louisa Woodville

Susan Wyatt

The Zucker Family

ASSOCIATES

($250 or more)

Anonymous (10)

Anonymous, in memory of Adrian van Kalken

Joseph Aieta III

Nicholas Altenbernd

Julie Andrijeski & J. Tracy Mortimore

Neil R. Ayer, Jr. & Linda Ayer

Alan Bates & Michele Mandrioli

Mary Baughman

Sarah Bixler & Christopher Tonkin

Peter Bronk & Susan Axe-Bronk

Carlo Buonomo

Frederick Byron

Joseph Cantey

Eleanor Carlson

Anne Chalmers & Holly Gunner

Mary Chamberlain

Priscilla H. Claman

John K. Clark & Judith M. Stoughton

Lois Evelyn Conley

Derek Cottier & Lauren Tilly

Donna Cubit-Swoyer

Christopher Curdo

Warren R. Cutler

Elizabeth C. Davis

Carl & May Daw

Ellen R. Delany

Katharine B. Desai

Michael DiSabatino, in honor of Nancy Olson

Kathryn Disney

Ellen Dokton & Stephen Schmidt

Charles & Sheila Donahue

Tamar & Jeremy Kaim Doniger

Ms. Helen A. Edwards

Mark Elenko

Anne Engelhart & Douglas Durant

David & Noel English

Chuck Epstein & Melia Bensussen

Susan Fairchild & Jeff Buxbaum

Lori Fay & Christopher Cherry, in memory of Gerry Weber

Gregg, Abby & Max Feigelson

Kent Flummerfelt, in memory of Jane Flummerfelt

Patrick Joseph Fox, in honor of Dr. Nancy Olson

Gary Freeman

Gisela & Ronald Geiger

Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.

Philip Glynn

Barbara Godard

Nancy L. Graham

The Graver Family

Lorraine & William Graves

Mary Greer

Laury Gutierrez & Elsa Gelin

Eric Haas, in memory of Janet Haas

G. Neil & Anne Harper

Jasjit & Donald L. Heckathorn

Diane Hellens

Catherine & John Henn

Mary Hepburn, in honor of Laura Jeppesen

Jennifer L. Hochschild & C. Anthony Broh

Roderick J. Holland

Keith L. & Catherine B. Hughes

Alex Humez

Jean Jackson, in memory of Louis Kampf

Robin Johnson

Patrick G. Jordan

Dian Kahn

Elizabeth Kaplan

David Keating

Louis & Susan Kern

George Kocur

Scott-Martin Kosofsky & Betsy Sarles

Katharine & Tom Kush, in honor of Michael Ellmann

William & Betsy Leitch

Joan Lippincott

Mary Maarbjerg

Rodolfo Machado & Jorge Silvetti

Dr. Bruce C. MacIntyre

Quinn MacKenzie

Marietta Marchitelli

Sally Mayer

James McBride

Anne McCants

William McLaughlin

Margo Miller

Ray Mitzel

David Montanari & Sara Rubin

John Nelson

Kevin Oye & June Hsiao

Henry & Judy Paap

Cosmo & Jane Papa

Eugene Papa

Robert Parker

David & Beth Pendery

Elizabeth V. Phillips

Hon. W. Glen Pierson & Hon. Charles P. Reed

Rodney J. Regier

Hadley & Jeannette Reynolds

Sherry & William Rogers

Alison & Jeff Rosenberg, in honor of Martha Gottron & John Felton

Paul Rutz, in memory of Sandra Henry

Richard Schroeder & Dr. Jane Burns

Susan Schuur

Alison M. Scott

David Sears

Mr. Terry Shea & Dr. Seigo Nakao

Harvey A. Silverglate, in memory of Elsa Dorfman

Mark Slotkin

Elliott Smith & Wendy Gilmore

Kathryn Steely

Ronald W. Stoia

Elliott & Barbara Strizhak

Ralph & Jeanine Swick

Lois Swirnoff

Richard Tarrant

Kenneth P. Taylor

Edward P. Todd

John & Dorothy Truman

Delores & Robert Viarengo

Robert & Therese Wagenknecht

Dr. Alan J. Ward

Thomas & LeRose Weikert

Marina & Robert Whitman

John C. Wiecking

John Wolff & Helen Berger

Michael Wyatt

Ellen L. Ziskind

PARTNERS

($100 or more)

Anonymous (14)

Anonymous, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay

Greg Abbe

Maria Adams

Marty Ahrens & Gary Madison

Druid Errant D.T. Allan-Gorey

Kenneth Allen & Hugh Russell

Tom & Judy Anderson Allen, in memory of Dorothy Fay

Tom & Judy Anderson Allen, in memory of Adrian van Kalken

William Ames

Cathy & William Anderson

Margarete Arndt

Renee Ashley

Carl C. Baker & Susan R. Haynes

Peter Bals

Antonia L. Banducci

Lois Banta

Dr. David Barnert & Julie A. Raskin

Rev. Joseph & Nancy Bassett

Trevor & Dax Bayard-Murray, in memory of Roger Lakins

George Beach

Elaine Beilin

Lawrence Bell

Alan Benenfeld

Helen Benham

Susan Benua

Noel & Paula Berggren

Judith Bergson

Larry & Sara Mae Berman

Ann & Richard Bingham, in honor of Kathy Udall

Barbara R. Bishop

Thomas N. Bisson, in memory of Carroll Bisson

Katharine C. Black

Moisha Blechman

Wes Bockley & Amy Markus

Deborah Boldin & Gabriel Rice

Richard Borts

Sally & Charlie Boynton

Todd A. Breitbart

David Breitman & Kathryn Stuart

Joel Bresler

Andrew Brethauer

Laura Brewer & Neil Gershenfeld

Derick & Jennifer Brinkerhoff

Catherine & Hillel Shahan Bromberg

David C. Brown

Robert Brown

Susan Bryant

Andrew J. Buckler

Russell & Dee Burgett

Jean C. Burke

John H. Burkhalter III

Judi Burten, in memory of Phoebe Larkey

Kevin J. Bylsma

Richard & Lois Case

Peter Charig & Amy Briemer

Robert B. Christian

Daniel Church & Roger Cuevas

Edward Clark & Joan Pritchard

John Clark

Joel I. Cohen, in honor of Anne Azéma

Dr. Martin Cohen & Dr. Rae Jacobs Cohen

Saul B. & Naomi R. Cohen

Carol & Alex Collier

Mary C. Coward & John Empey

Robert B. Crane

Dan & Sidnie Crawford

Martina Crocker, in memory of William T. Crocker

Matthew & Ellen Cron

Gray F. Crouse

James Cyphers

Ruta Daugela

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Day

Kate Delaney

William Depeter

Richard DesRosiers

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Dewitt

Deborah & Forrest Dillon

Priscilla Drucker

Laura Duffy

Ben Dunham & Wendy Rolfe-Dunham

John W. Ehrlich

Karen M. El-Chaar, Esq.

Jane Epstein

Paula Erikson

Jake Esher

Richard Fabian

Lila M. Farrar

Marilyn Farwell

Grace A. Feldman, in honor of Bernice Chen

Henry & Judith Feldman

Kevin Feltz

Annette Fern

Janet G. Fink

Hans & Ruth Fisher

Carol L. Fishman

Dr. Jonathan Florman

Deborah Fox & Ron Epstein

Robert Freeman

Peter Frick Friends

Alexander Garthwaite

Stephen L. Gencarello

Monica & David Gerber

David & Susan Gerstein

Hans Gesell

Rebecca Gifford

Michael Goldberg

Diane Goldsmith

Jeffrey Goldsmith

Lisa Goldstein

Joseph Grafwallner

Kim T. Grant

Winifred Gray

Thomas H. & Lori B. Griswold

John Gruver & Lynn Tilley

Peter F. Gustafson

Sonia Guterman

Richard & Les Hadsell

Suzanne & Easley Hamner

Barbara & Markos Hankin

Judith & Patrick Hanlon

Joseph & Elizabeth Hare

Elizabeth Harris

Barbara & Samuel L. Hayes III

Donatus Hayes

Elwood Headley

Karin Hemmingsen

Katherine A. Hesse

Peter & Peg Hewitt

Carole Hilton

Raymond Hirschkop

John & Olivann Hobbie

Sterling & Margaret Hopkins

Valerie Horst & Benjamin Peck

Beth F. Houston

David Howlett

Wayne & Laurell Huber

Judith & Alan Hudson

Joe Hunter & Esther Schlorholtz

Brian Hussey

Francesco Iachello

Susan L. Jackson

Deborah L. Jameson

Donna Jeker

Gayle Johnson

Robert & Mary Johnson

Robert & Selina Johnson

David K. Jordan

Marietta B. Joseph

June Kagdis

Lorraine Kaimal, in memory of Jagadish C. Kaimal

Seamus & Marjorie Kelly

Roger & Mary Jane Kelsey

Joseph J. Kesselman, Jr.

David P. Kiaunis

John N. Kirk

Rebecca Klein

Pat Kline

Kathryn Kling

Sara M. Knight

Christine Kodis

Crystal Komm & Christopher Potter

Ellen Kranzer

Benjamin Krepp & Virginia Webb

Lisa Kugelman

Bob Kunzendorf & Liz Ritvo

Carol LaFontaine

Peter A. Lans

Tom Law

David A. Leach & Laurie J. LaChapelle

William Lebow

Alison Leslie

Ricardo & Marla Lewitus

Rebecca Lightcap

Laura Loehr

Sandra & David Lyons

Ted MacDonald & Yuan Wang

Peter G. Manson & Peter A. Durfee

Sarah Marsh

Dr. Arnold Matlin & Dr. Margaret Matlin, Ph.D.

Donna McCampbell

Lee McClelland

George McKee

Dave & Jeannette McLellan

Mr. Daniel P. Melish, in memory of William Paul Melish

Gerald & Susan Metz

Amy Meyer

Ruth Milburn

Nathaniel & Judith Mishkin

Richard Molitor

Jennifer Moxley & Steve Evans

Gene Murrow

Rodney & Barbara Myrvaagnes

Myrna Nachman

Debra Nagy, in honor of Robert Mealy

Paul & Rebecca Nemser

Nancy Nicholson

Jeffrey Nicolich

Caroline Niemira

Lyle & Patricia Nordstrom

Nancy Nuzzo

Leslie Nyman

Karen Oakley & John Merrick

Nancy Olson

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AMHERST EARLY MUSIC Workshops n Festival n Classes n Concerts n Music Publications

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