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Cantata Singers Explores Heinrich Schütz Through Works of Monteverdi, Stravinsky, and Poulenc
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12 March 2010 at 8:00pm
Cantata Singers Explores Heinrich Schütz Through Works of Monteverdi, Stravinsky, and Poulenc
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Cantata Singers, one of the nation’s leading ensembles dedicated to performing and commissioning choral-orchestral works, presents the third program of its Schütz-centric season on Friday, March 12th at 8:00pm in Boston’s Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street). Recent seasons have focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Benjamin Britten, and the organization’s approaching 50th year will focus on the large choral works of J.S. Bach. In this season’s latest homage to 17th-century German master Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), Cantata Singers showcases motets from his Cantiones sacrae (1625) and Symphoniae sacrae III (1650), along with deeply connected–and dramatically contrasting–works of Claudio Monteverdi - Laetatus sum (1640) and Gloria a 7 voci (1631), Igor Stravinsky - Mass (1948), and Francis Poulenc- Mass in G (1937).
Throughout its 46th season, Cantata Singers is providing an opportunity for Boston area audiences to discover Heinrich Schütz. With a composing career that spanned six decades, Schütz had enormous influence on innumerable composers following him. Similarly, there are many composers whose music, while not necessarily inspired by Schütz’s music, thrives vividly in its company. “This program features a few of many composers who were touched indirectly, or fed quite directly, by Schütz’s powerful voice,” explains David Hoose, Music Director of Cantata Singers. “The unexpected and vibrant association of Schütz with Monteverdi, Stravinsky, and especially Poulenc, may be unexpected, but to the ear, all of the music on this concert seems to rise from one spirit.”
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