DePaul University. Eric Esparza, conductor Jason Moy, director. Symphonic Choir & Sunday, November 12, :00 p.m.

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1 Sunday, November 12, :00 p.m. DePaul University Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble Eric Esparza, conductor Jason Moy, director DePaul 800 West Belden Avenue Chicago

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3 Sunday, November 12, :00 p.m. DePaul Sacred Motets from Italy and Guatemala Eric Esparza, conductor Jason Moy, conductor and organist Michael McElvain, pianist Program Andrea Gabrieli (1532/ ) Intonazione d organo del secondo tono Francesco Cavalli ( ) Laudate Dominum (1656) José de Torres y Martínez Bravo ( ) Miren Una Gloria Claudio Monteverdi ( ) Beatus vir, from Selva morale e spirituale (1640/41) José de Nebra ( ) Salve Regina José de Torres y Martínez Bravo A La Misteriosa Cena Andrea Gabrieli Intonazione d organo del primo tono Francesco Cavalli ( ) Lauda Jerusalem (1656)

4 Personnel Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 DePaul Symphonic Choir Georgiana Adams Chuckie Aiello Kais Ali Sebastian Armendáriz Lucy Baker Mallory Baker Daniel Beatty Jesse Bockwinkel Marisa Buchheit Julia Clarke Kathryn Conley Maria Consamus Roy Curiale Drew Curry Madeline Ehlinger Lauren Florek Mason Goldberg Stephanie Gubin Chase Gutierrez Ellie Heinzen Erin Hogan Ethan Isaacson Nicole Kelly Brennan Kennedy Zach Kuehn Olivia Leone Miranda Levin Emily Margevich Alexander Mark Abagael Martin Hanna-Grace Mowery Lauryn Nelson Daniel O Hearn Brian O Neill Gia Pappas Rudy Rosenmayer Kelby Roth Declan Ryan Everett Sarich Steven Schein Rachel Singh Betsy Sorensen Sarah Szeszol Patrick Tumulty Ryan Wolfe Christopher Young Sean Yu Angela Zúñiga Members of the DePaul Baroque Ensemble Lina Mar Yamin Noronha, violin Nelson Mendoza, violin Timothy Sutton, cello David Walker, theorbo & baroque guitar* Jason Moy, organ & director * Guest

5 Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 Program Notes This afternoon the DePaul University Symphonic Choir and Baroque Ensemble will perform Baroque motets from Italy, Spain, and Guatemala in concertato style. Concertato style is a compositional idiom in which solo voices, chorus, and instruments are used in various combinations. Today s motets are scored for two violins and basso continuo, with a violoncino part periodically breaking away from the continuo line. Vocal soloists appear in a variety of combinations to vary the texture. Francesco Cavalli Laudate Dominum and Lauda Jerusalem Duration: 3 minutes and 9 minutes Francesco Cavalli ( ) was the most renowned composer of opera in seventeenth-century Venice. He also spent virtually all of his life in musical service to the Basilica of St. Mark and other Venetian churches as a singer, organist, composer, and maestro di cappella. Cavalli s operas have enjoyed a surge in popularity and interest in recent years, but his sacred works remain largely unknown. Though a prolific composer, only two major publications by Cavalli were ever printed, and few of his sacred works survive due to this reluctance to publish. The Musiche Sacre Concernenti of 1656 contains the largest source of his sacred music in concertato style, representing a fusion of the composer s sacred and secular compositional worlds. The publication is large in content, containing a concerted mass, eleven psalms, five hymns, the Magnificat, the four Marian antiphons, and six instrumental pieces, providing performers with materials for the major Vesper services of the liturgical year, and a lavish mass for any special celebration of the Eucharist. The Laudate Dominum and Lauda Jerusalem that open and close the concert are from the Musiche Sacre. They set successive verses of each vesper psalm in a different way, often starting with fewer voices and layering in new voices in imitation and leading to a cadential tutti texture.

6 Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 Program Notes José de Torres y Martínez Bravo Miren Una Gloria and A La Misteriosa Cena Duration: 6 minutes and 6 minutes José de Torres ( ) was a Spanish composer, many of whose works appear in a collection discovered in Guatemala City called the Musica Colonial. Among the works are many villancicos. The villancico was a common poetic and musical form of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America popular from the late 15th to 18th centuries. It consists of a refrain (estribillo) which bookends a series of verses (coplas). Typical of this genre, the choirs are not split in the common SATB fashion, but rather in a manner that divides the highest voices (called tiple) into two different parts, resulting in a choir voiced SSAT with the tenor voice containing an unusually large range with both low and high notes. The Spanish text is full of imagery that can at times be difficult to understand. Miren Una Gloria is a devotional song to the Virgin Mary, while A la Misteriosa Cena describes the Last Supper with dense poetry. Claudio Monteverdi Beatus vir, from Selva morale e spirituale Duration: 9 minutes Claudio Monteverdi ( ) was one of the most famous Baroque composers well-known for his contributions to early opera and for the sacred music he wrote in service to the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. His collection Selva Morale e Spirituale of was likely a model for Cavalli s Musiche Sacre, particularly since Cavalli sang for Monteverdi as a member of the capella and was his student. Beatus Vir is scored for six voices and features heavy interplay between the strings and voices.

7 Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 synoposis José de Nebra Salve Regina Duration: 4 minutes José de Nebra was a Spanish composer of the late Baroque known for his contribution to Spanish opera and zarzuela. He also wrote in all the sacred genres of the time including settings of the Marian Antiphons of which Salve Regina is one. This motet is also from the Musica Colonial archive and uses creative quoting of the traditional Salve Regina plainchant melody as melodic material in both the minor and relative major key centers. De Nebra also uses creative text painting throughout the piece. In a typical two-choir voicing for villancicos, the choirs are scored SSAT / SATB providing a surplus of treble voices, often used imitatively. The Symphonic Choir is grateful to Professor Moy and the Baroque Ensemble for the frequent willingness to collaborate on both well-known compositions by the master composers and lesser known works by underrepresented composers from countries outside the traditional Western European canon. This commitment to musical diversity has lead to frequent revival of important works that not only connect the dots more deeply along the timeline of music history, but also help to deepen the sense of musical-stylistic national pride of the underrepresented countries.

8 Biographies Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 Eric Esparza is the Director of Choral Activities and Vocal Area Coordinator at DePaul University, where he conducts the DePaul Chamber Choir and Concert Choir, and teaches courses in Choral Music. Dr. Esparza is also the Artistic Director of Windy City Performing Arts. Previously, he served on the music faculty of Sam Houston State University School as conductor of the Concert Choir, and teacher of voice, diction, and music theory. Dr. Esparza was also the Founder, Artistic Director, and Conductor of International Voices Houston, Artistic Director of the United Nations Association International Choir, and Director of Music Ministries at St. Mark s United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, he holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he studied with Dr. Joyce Farwell and Maestro Thomas Jaber. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Arts Administration from Florida State University where he was a University Fellow and served as Assistant Conductor of the Florida State University Opera. Dr. Esparza earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from Boston University, where he studied with Dr. Ann Howard Jones. He remains active internationally as a singer, conductor, and music editor. Jason J. Moy holds degrees in harpsichord and Early Music performance from McGill University in Montreal, where his primary teachers and mentors included Hank Knox, Luc Beauséjour, and the late Bruce Haynes. Jason is a native of Chicago, and a faculty member at the DePaul University School of Music, where he teaches harpsichord, and serves as Coordinator of Chamber Music and Director of the Baroque Ensemble. His concert activities as a soloist and collaborative artist have taken him throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, and include appearances at the 2013 and 2015 Boston Early Music Festivals, and the prestigious York Early Music Festival in the United Kingdom in Jason regularly performs with his award-winning period instrument ensemble, Trio Speranza, and is a frequent guest artist with such

9 Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 biographies respected ensembles as the Bach Week Festival Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Music of the Baroque, Newberry Consort, Dempster Street Pro Musica, Chicago Chamber Musicians Ensemble, and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. He has been featured in live performances on ABC7 and CBS2 television, and BBC Radio 3, and is frequently heard on Chicago s classical radio station, WFMT98.7.

10 Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 Upcoming Events Sunday, November 12 8:00 p.m. String Chamber Showcase II Monday, November 13 7:00 p.m. Recital Hall Jazz Combos IV Monday, November 13 8:00 p.m. Composers Forum Tuesday, November 14 8:00 p.m. DePaul Concert Orchestra Thursday, January 11 8:00 p.m. Guest Recital: Pete Steiner Sunday, January 14 7:00 p.m. Faculty Artist Series: Jeremy Ruthrauff, saxophone Sunday, January 21 8:00 p.m. Faculty Artist Series: Alexander Hanna, bass Sunday, January 28 3:00 p.m. Composers Forum Thursday, February 1 8:00 p.m. Ensemble 20+ Friday, February 2 8:00 p.m. DePaul Symphony Orchestra Saturday, February 3 8:00 p.m.

11 Symphonic Choir & Baroque Ensemble November 12, 2017 DePaul Wind Symphony Monday, February 5 8:00 p.m. DePaul Wind Ensemble Tuesday, February 6 8:00 p.m. DePaul Concert Orchestra Saturday, February 10 8:00 p.m. DePaul Chamber Choir and Concert Choir Monday, February 19 8:00 p.m. Percussion Ensemble Friday, February 23 8:00 p.m. New Music DePaul Thursday, March 1 7:00 p.m. Recital Hall Jazz Combos Thursday, February 1 8:00 p.m. String Chamber Showcase upcoming events As a courtesy to those around you, please silence all cell phones and other electronic devices. Flash photography is not permitted. Thank you. Sign up for DePaul E-Notes! Receive bi-weekly updates in your inbox on performances taking place at the School of Music, as well as special offers and discounts to ticketed events! You can choose to unsubscribe from the list at any time. We have a strict privacy policy and will never sell or trade your address. You can sign up for E-Notes by visiting music.depaul.edu and clicking on Concerts and Events. DePaul University School of Music 800 West Belden Avenue Chicago Recital Hall 804 West Belden Avenue Chicago music.depaul.edu

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