Ninth Season, 2009-2010

Concert One

Musica Espana

Masterpieces from Renaissance Spain

Continuing Chantry's Victoria series

• GUERRERO Missa Sancta et immaculata
• Music of MORALES and PENALOSA
• VICTORIA motets

Saturday, October 10, 8:00 p.m. at St. Mary Mother of God

Saturday, October 17, 8:00 p.m. at St. Bernadette

• Victoria, Morales, and Guerrero are the triumvirate at the pinnacle of the Spanish Renaissance, while Penalosa was its greatest early master
• Experience the remarkable expressive power of the music of Spain

Concert Two

Music for Sinter Klaas

Celebrating the Haydn anniversary

with Modern Musick
Washington's premiere Baroque orchestra

• Medieval conductus and Renaissance motets for St. Nicholas
• HAYDN Symphony No. 45, "Farewell"
• HAYDN Missa Sancti Nicolai

Saturday, December 5, 8:00 p.m. at St. Mary Mother of God

• Third century Saint Nicholas, celebrated in music for millenia and called Sinter Klaas in the Low Countries, became our Santa Claus
• Haydn wrote his famous Farewell Symphony, at the end of which the players leave the stage one by one until only two violins are left, to hint to his patron Prince Nicholas Esterhazy that it was time for the court to leave the summer palace, where the musicians were away from their families
• Haydn composed his supremely beautiful, beloved Mass for St. Nicholas for performance on St. Nicholas Day the following December, as a thank-you to the Prince for taking the hint

Concert Three

Music for Saint Mary

Continuing Chantry's Gradualia series

• WILLIAM BYRD
  Gradualia Propers for the Feast of the Purification
  Mass for Four Voices

Friday, February 12, 8:00 p.m. at St. Mary Mother of God

• Byrd's Gradualia, with motet Propers for the entire liturgical year, was the crowning masterpiece of his magnificent career
• Chantry will repeat this program on Saturday, February 13, 7:30 p.m., in the concert series at St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Alexandria VA.
• For tickets and details, go to http://www.saintlukeschurch.net/life/music.asp or call (703) 765-4342.

Concert Four

On The Other Handl

Music of the great Slovenian-Czech master Jacob Handl

• Missa Super Sancta Maria
• Motets from Opus Musicum

Saturday, May 8, 8:00 p.m. at St. Mary Mother of God

Saturday, May 15, 8:00 p.m. at St. Bernadette

• Sometimes called "the Bohemian Palestrina", Handl was perhaps the greatest Renaissance master from Eastern Europe
• Revel in Handl's mastery of Renaissance styles from contrapuntal to polychoral to madrigalian chromaticism