November 29, 1999
Contact: Charla Jenkins, University Theatre, (785) 864-2684.
LAWRENCE -- "In dulci jubilo: Early Music for the Christmas Season" will be presented by the University of Kansas Oread Consort and Collegium Musicum at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, in Bales Organ Recital Hall. Simon Carrington and Paul Laird are directors of the Collegium Musicum while Carrington directs the Oread Consort.
Laird said the program includes both choral and instrumental music from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, much of it relatively unknown, and is planned as "a refreshing change from the usual bombardment of 'music for the holiday season' we hear from early November until New Year's Day."
The program opens with the six-member Oread Consort performing a chant sung in medieval England for first vespers on Christmas, "Veni, redemptor gencium."
The remainder of the concert will include:
-- "In dulci jubilo" by Johann Eccard, performed by the Collegium Instrumental and Oread Consort.
-- "Echo carol," an anonymous work from Cologne, Germany, performed by Collegium Musicum Vocal and Oread Consort.
-- "Ave Regina coelorum, a work in eight parts by Tomās Luis de Victoria, performed by the Collegium Musicum Vocal.
-- "Rondeau" by Jean-Joseph Mouret, "Concerto fatto per la notte di Natale" by Arcangelo Corelli, and "DulcÕsimo dueøo" by Sebastiān DurŅn, featuring Hugo Vera, El Paso, Texas, graduate student, as tenor soloist, performed by the Collegium Instrumental.
-- "There is no rose of such virtue," an anonymous 15th century English tune; "Thys endere nyghth I saw a syghth," an anonymous 16th-century English work, and "Virgen Sancta" by Francisco Guerrero, performed by the Oread Consort.
-- "Hodie Christus natus est," an eight-part work by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, performed by the Collegium Musicum Vocal.
-- "Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich" by Eccard, performed by the Collegium Instrumental with the women of the Collegium Musicum Vocal.
-- "Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilet" from "Weinachts Oratorium" by J.S. Bach, featuring Vera, performed by the Collegium Instrumental.
-- "Lullaby, my sweet little baby" by William Byrd, performed by the Collegium Musicum Vocal and Oread Consort alto section.
-- "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" by Eccard, featuring Geneva Ewert, Lawrence senior, as soprano soloist, performed by the combined ensembles.
-- "Te lucis ante terminum" by Thomas Tallis, performed by the Oread Consort.
General admission tickets for the holiday concert are now on sale in the KU box offices: Lied Center, 864-ARTS; Murphy Hall, 864-3982; and SUA, 864-3477; $5 for the public and $4 for students and senior citizens. Both VISA and MasterCard are accepted for phone orders.