Tapestry, Vocal Ensemble

We invite you to attend the first concert of our 25th Anniversary, 2019-20 Concert Series for The Artist Series of Tallahassee, featuring Tapestry, vocal ensemble: Cristi Catt, Soprano; Laurie Monahan, mezzo-soprano; Daniela Tošić, alto; with Nikolai Radan, flute and Arsentiy Kharitonov, piano. Their program is entitled Beyond Boundaries: Songs of Hope and Peace featuring music by Bartok, Debussy, Ravel, Boulanger, and Poulenc. Beyond Boundaries draws on Tapestry’s 100th-anniversary Armistice Day tour that concluded on November 11, 2018 at the National Gallery in Washington DC. Tapestry shapes this new program inspired by early 20th-century impressionists. After WW1, the influence of the impressionists spread throughout the world. Bartok wrote “Debussy’s great service to music was to reawaken among all musicians an awareness of harmony and its possibilities.” Tapestry’s program travels beyond boundaries and throughout time to explore themes of love, beauty, and peace.

PROGRAM:

Le tombeau de Couperin excerpt                                  Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Nuit d’etoiles                                                                     Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Syrinx                                                                                  Claude Debussy

Les Sirenes                                                                         Lili Boulanger (1893 – 1918)

Allegro Giocoso and Vivo, 14 Bagatelles for piano     Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Romanian Dances                                                             Bela Bartok

Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison                   Claude Debussy

Pastorale (Trois pièces)                                                    Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Litanies a la vierge noire                                                  Francis Poulenc

INTERMISSION

My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (Psalm 23)          Arr. by Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

Mood Indigo                                                                       Duke Ellington (1899-1974)

God Bless the Child                                                           Billie Holiday (1915-1959) Arthur Herzog                                                                                                 (1900-1983) arr. C. Catt

Agnus Dei                                                                            Las Huelgas Codex 13th c.

Reconciliation from Dona Nobis Pacem                       Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Etude-Tableaux Op.39 No.2 in A Minor                       Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Sure on this Shining Night                                               Samuel Barber (1910-1981)                                                                                                                           arr. by Jacob Narverud

Somewhere                                                                          Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Tapestry is represented by Shupp Artists Management, www.tapestryboston.com