SERGEI RACHMANINOFF - concert program

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF All-Night Vigil & Symphonic Dances

Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 5pm All Souls Church 1157 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10075

MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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elcome to the last concert of Musica Viva NY’s 2021-2022 Season!

We programmed the music you will hear today long before we knew that Putin would start a tragic war in Ukraine in late February that would be raging fiercely as we write this. What a horrific addition to the terrible challenge the world has been experiencing with the pandemic.

Right after the invasion we started to think about whether we could present an all Rachmaninoff program at this time, since Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer to his core, and Russia is the ruthless aggressor in this war with Ukraine. After reflection and discussion we came to the conclusion that Rachmaninoff’s music has nothing to do with the politics and decision making of Russia’s current leader. Although Rachmaninoff loved Russia deeply, he left in December 1917, never to return, settling in the United States and becoming a US citizen in 1943. We believe that Rachmaninoff’s music represents the opposite of Putin’s current aggression. It is music that fills the heart and soul with peace, solace and healing and evokes humanity’s best qualities. We did decide that we would like to include a piece for Ukraine, and will start the concert with Prayer for Ukraine by leading Ukrainian composer Valetin Silvestrov.

With this program, we would like to offer you a time to experience the healing power of music, and to conclude our season with this magnificent, rich music that celebrates what is best in all of us.

If you want to make a donation to help Ukraine you might consider doing so through Razom, an organization engaged in critical humanitarian war relief and recovery in Ukraine. Razom was recommended to Alejandro by his friend Valeriya Sholokhova, a cellist from Ukraine. You can find more detail on their website at www.razomforukraine.org.

We look forward to seeing you all next season, when we will be presenting exciting works by composers you know and some you may not know. You will find brief details in the back of this program and we are confident that you will love the beautiful, relevant and masterfully performed music brought to you by Musica Viva NY. —Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, Artistic Director —Jasna Vasić, Executive Director

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Sunday, May 22, 2022 5 pm All Souls Church

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF All-Night Vigil & Symphonic Dances Musica Viva NY choir Paul D’Arcy, tenor Madalyn Luna, mezzo-soprano Shawn Bartels, tenor Nathan Siler, tenor Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, conductor and piano Margaret Kampmeier, piano Valentin Silvestrov (1937 -). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prayer for Ukraine Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . All Night Vigil Op. 37 & Symphonic Dances Op. 45 All-Night Vigil • Come Let Us Worship • Bless the Lord, O My Soul • Blessed Is the Man Symphonic Dances, I: Non Allegro All-Night Vigil • Gladsome Light • Lord, Now Lettest Thou • Rejoice, O Virgin

Intermission All-Night Vigil • The Six Psalms • Praise the Name of the Lord Symphonic Dances, II: Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) All-Night Vigil • Blessed Art Thou, O Lord Symphonic Dances, III: Lento assai – Allegro vivace All-Night Vigil • Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ • The Tropation “Today Salvation Has Come” • The Tropation “Thou Didst Rise from the Tomb” • To Thee, the Victorious Leader

All performers and concertgoers will be required to show proof of vaccination. Masks should be worn.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM RUSSIA, THEN AND NOW

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t is hard for us in the West to imagine what the Ukraine-born composer Valentin Silvestrov is enduring, living, as he does and always has, in Kiev, a city quite literally—and the cliche is the only effective way to frame it— under siege. But of course it has always been impossible for we in the West to understand, for we (with one glaring exception of a day) have seldom had the barrier breached, the gate even vaguely stormed, because we have been the conqueror rather than the conquered. And yet here Musica Viva NY opts to open with this still-vital composer’s lilting, dewy, A Prayer for Ukraine, asking only for protection—protection needed then, far more so now.

This concert, focusing as it does on the Russian composer Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, comes at a freighted moment in the world—a moment that will likely have expanded in seriousness between the writing and the reading of these notes—with debate around the banning of the work of a land currently undermining the democratic values of the world and murdering thousands at the hands of a deliberate assassin for only the most historically fanciful of reasons (at best). So whither the music of the great Russians, that music so eternal that it no longer belongs to country or person but to the ages, is the de facto question at hand. And Rachmaninoff, born as he was into an aristocratic and deeply nationalistic family, is indisputably and atavistically Russian to the core. And yet within the composer, as these two radically different works demonstrate, was a conflict which led to a confusing and sometimes addled legacy, a legacy, at least at this writing, even more gummed up by recent world events. As the historian and inveterate Russophile Richard Taruskin said of the composer: “For me to say ‘Rachmaninoff was the last of the great composers’ would have been absurd; and it would have been equally absurd for me to say that he was not.”

The entirety of the personally devout composer’s a cappella All-Night Vigil—a piece often (mis)labeled Vespers, which is only partially true, because the texts encompass also Matins as well as other aspects—in truth only takes seventy-five minutes to perform soup to nuts (lest you panic), but when the movements are part of the actual rite, it lasts Compline, until dawn, and runs the high-charged emotional gamut of religious ritual. One quiddity about the piece: it is devoid of tempo markings, making each performance inherently (and excitingly) deeply unique. And while it took half a century to actually record the work, the near-surfeit of available performances speaks to the power and changeability of the piece.

This setting of these sacred texts (inspired as they were by others who assayed the same bits of liturgy, most powerfully Tchaikovsky’s lesser-known—but extremely potent—setting) make use of different types of chant, and the work stands as a different mode of musical creation for this otherwise often overt and very public composer, an introverted and personal cycle of pieces—the fifth movement of which (“Lord, Now Lettest Thou”) the composer wished to be played at his own funeral.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM The piece was premiered in 1915, in a Russia exhausted by revolution and forthrightly addled and rent by a then-current war. He wrote it in an astonishing two weeks, and dedicated it, in memoriam, to Stepan Smolensky, a Muscovite choral director—he ran the Moscow Synodal Choir—who had introduced the composer to the liturgical texts and melodic fragments. The work is considered by many to be the last great musical work of the Russian Orthodox Church—a claim perhaps Stravinsky, were we able we ask him, might dispute.

In an interview in 1939, Rachmaninoff said “I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new.” The world was changing, music was changing— Bartok, Stravinsky, Satie; the Second Viennese School; not to mention American Jazz were all reigning in the musical ether—and the composer was having trouble changing alongside it. He wrote precious little at the end of his life, struggling perhaps with his brutal concert schedule, but perhaps stung by the musical scene—his more recent pieces (including the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Third Symphony) had not been critical or commercial successes—he had stepped partially away. And yet, since the beginning of the First World War, just before he white-heated All-Night Vigil, the composer had been desperate to write a ballet. Therefore, his final composition, written just three years before his death, was the spry, three-movement Symphonic Dances. It is the work of a solid, accomplished composer unafraid of the old wine in the old bottles, and was no doubt considered recherché in those fractious times. It was written at a comfortable mansion on Long Island, but it is as deeply Russian a work as he ever wrote, even—maybe especially—in the clarity of the composer’s twopiano version performed today. It was premiered by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1941.

In the piece he looks, as he does in the All-Night Vigil, to the chants of his faith and country while simultaneously hinting at a backward glance over his own life, a cheeky Catalogue raisonné. He quotes both one of his own symphonies in the first movement and in the third movement he hints at his favorite of all of his compositions, that piece steeped in Kiev Chant, “Blessed Art Thou, O Lord.”

But the three-movement piece, titled as it is, is meant to be danced—in fact, before his death in 1942, the masterful Russian choreographer Michel Fokine (of both Scheherazade and Firebird fame) intended to stage it. Many have since.

“Given what we know of Rachmaninoff’s state of mind in 1940,” writes Michael Steinberg, “it is likely that he thought of this as his last composition. We see him then taking leave of his craft with a hymn of thanks and praise.” And today, we watch in horror as the Russian State, through its apparatchicks, tries to rewrite this glorious history of which Rachmaninoff (along with any number of other artists, from Nabokov to Pussy Riot) stands as a proud, devoted part. But the history of art shows much, and even if we are angry we can still learn and come to understand. Hearing this important composer in both his public and private guises gives us the sense of his own internal struggle, his own duality (a Russian characteristic immortalized by Dostoyevsky), his own sense of public and private self.

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MEET THE ARTISTS

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ounded in 1977, Musica Viva NY is a chamber choir of thirty professionals and highly skilled volunteers, based in Manhattan’s historic All Souls Church. Its mission is to bring world-class music to a widening community through its annual concert series, community engagement programs, and an ambitious artistic vision. Under the baton of Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez since 2015, Musica Viva NY has been praised by The New York Times as an “excellent chorus.” Musica Viva NY has toured in France (2004), Germany (2006) and Italy (2012).

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steemed conductor and pianist Dr. Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez was named Artistic Director of Musica Viva NY and Director of Music of the historic Unitarian Church of All Souls in Manhattan in 2015. He is also Co-Founder of the New Orchestra of Washington and Artistic Director of the Victoria Bach Festival. He has earned accolades from The Washington Post as a conductor “with the incisive clarity of someone born to the idiom,” as well as praise from The New York Times for leading “a stirring performance” of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. At a concert commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the WWI Armistice (featuring the world premiere of Joseph Turrin’s cantata And Crimson Roses Once Again Be Fair) Oberon’s Grove wrote: “Maestro Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez drew rich, warm sounds from the musicians” in “a beautiful and deeply moving program.” He is featured in El mundo en las manos/ Creadores mexicanos en el extranjero (The World in Their Hands/Creative Mexicans Abroad), a book by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs honoring Mexican nationals who are leading figures in diverse artistic fields. He is the recipient of a 2016 Shenandoah Conservatory Alumni of Excellence Award for his exemplary contribution to his profession, national level of prominence, and exceptional integrity. He resides in New York City and Washington, D.C.

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adalyn Luna is a first generation, MexicanAmerican mezzo-soprano from Chicago, Illinois. Heralded as having a “distinctive, caramel-colored” voice by Opera News, Ms. Luna has been recognized for her invested character portrayals especially in contemporary opera and early music.

Past role highlights include Julia Bertram in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park, Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Emmeline (Emmeline), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), and Soprano 2 (Hydrogen Jukebox). In Ms. Luna’s premiere year with the Unitarian Congregation of All Souls and Musica Viva NY, she has had the pleasure of being featured in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Bach’s Magnificat as an alto soloist. Madalyn was recently a member of Boston University’s Opera Institute and received her Master’s in Voice Performance from Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Cynthia Hoffmann. She is currently a student of Mark Schnaible and resides in New York City.

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MEET THE ARTISTS

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hawn Bartels, Tenor, is a native of Gillette, Wyoming.

Roles include Count Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Lindoro (L’Italiana in Algieri), Il Podestà (La finta giardiniera), Nanki-Poo (The Mikado), The Vain Man/ The Snake (The Little Prince), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), the Roasting Swan (Carmina Burana) and St. Nicolas in Britten’s Saint Nicolas. He appeared as the Ballad Singer (Of Mice and Men) with Glimmerglass Opera. Mr. Bartels sang Uriel (The Creation) under the baton of Robert Shaw, appeared at Carnegie Hall in both Mozart’s Vesperae de Dominica and Coronation Mass and appeared in Jonathan Miller’s stagings of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at The Brooklyn Academy of Music. He performed The Prologue/Quint (The Turn of the Screw) with Broomhill Opera (London) and Skylight Opera, and sang Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with Ensemble D’Opera European (Marseille, France). Most recently, Shawn has appeared with the Victoria Bach Festival, the Society of Musical Arts and the State Repertory Opera of New Jersey. He has been a soloist with Musica Viva NY since 1996. He received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Northern Colorado and his Master in Music in Vocal Performance from Florida State University. Shawn is a member of the New York guitar-pop band Portraiture, who released their EP, “Cruel Yellow” in 2017.

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aul D’Arcy is in demand nationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Recent oratorio solo appearances include the Austin Symphony, Tucson Symphony, American Classical Orchestra, True Concord, and Ensemble viii. He has performed on numerous recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Reference Recordings, Naxos, and PBS, including the 2015 Grammy winning album, The Sacred Spirit of Russia with Conspirare. His most recent recording, Once Upon a Time (Skylark Ensemble), has been nominated for Best Choral Performance in the upcoming Grammys. Performances include the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Classical Orchestra, Musica Sacra, St. John the Divine, Trinity Wall Street, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NYC Ballet, National Sawdust, Worldless Music at BAM, Essential Voices, San Diego Bach Collegium, Ensemble Origo, Seraphic Fire, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Cape Cod Symphony, and Spire.

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MEET THE ARTISTS

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athan Siler is a performer and composer who lives and works in New York City. In addition to singing as a soloist for Musica Viva NY, Composer’s Choir (New Haven, CT), Five Lines, and the Unitarian Congregation of All Souls, he frequently performs as a chorister at Carnegie Hall with the Bard Festival Chorale and at Lincoln Center with the Concert Chorale of New York. When not singing, Nathan keeps a busy schedule as a music producer, recording engineer, and videographer. He is the chief architect of the NYC post-punk-prog band Portraiture.

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argaret Kampmeier enjoys a varied career as soloist, collaborative pianist, and educator.

Equally fluent in classical and contemporary repertoire, she has concertized and recorded extensively.

She has performed with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Ensembles, Kronos Quartet, and Mirror Visions Ensemble. As orchestral keyboardist, she performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and has subbed in the New York Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, and Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. She co-founded New Millennium Ensemble, a new music sextet that won the 1995 Naumburg chamber award. She has performed and recorded hundreds of new works, and has worked with composers of all ages and stages. Ms. Kampmeier can be heard on the Albany, Centaur, CRI, Koch, Nonesuch, and Bridge labels.

Ms. Kampmeier teaches piano and chamber music at Princeton University where she is also Coordinator of Piano Studies. In addition, she has been Chair of Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program since 2014. As director of this intensive two-year Master’s course of study, she has become known for her collaborative leadership style, inspired teaching, clarity of vision, and inclusive programming. Ms. Kampmeier earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stony Brook, and is deeply grateful for the shared wisdom of her mentors, Barry Snyder, Jan Degaetani, Julius Levine, and Gilbert Kalish.

To find out about ways to support Musica Viva NY through employer matching, volunteering, and monthly giving, please contact our Executive Director at jasna@musicaviva.org.

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TEXTS Valentin Silvestrov: Prayer for Ukraine Bože velykyj, jedynyj, Nam Ukrajinu chrany, Voli i svitu prominniam Ty jiji osiny.

Lord, oh the Great and Almighty, Protect our beloved Ukraine, Bless her with freedom and light Of your holy rays.

Svitlom nauky i znannia Nas, ditej, prosvity, V čystij liubovi do kraju, Ty nas, Bože, zrosty.

With learning and knowledge enlighten Us, your children small, In love pure and everlasting Let us, oh Lord, grow.

Molymoś, Bože jedynyj, Nam Ukrajinu chrany, Vsi svoji lasky j ščedroty Ty na liud naš zverny.

We pray, oh Lord Almighty, Protect our beloved Ukraine, Grant our people and country All your kindness and grace.

Daj jomu voliu, daj jomu doliu, Daj dobroho svitu, Ščastia, daj, Bože, narodu I mnohaja, mnohaja lita.

Bless us with freedom, bless us with wisdom, Guide into kind world, Bless us, oh Lord, with good fortune For ever and evermore.

Sergei Rachmanonoff – All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 Priidite, poklonimsya; Come, Let Us Worship.

Amen. Come, let us worship Amen. Priidite, poklonimsya God, our King.

Tsarevi nashemu Bogu.

Come, let us worship and fall down Priidite, poklonimsya i pripadem before Christ, our King and our God. Khristu Tsarevi nashemu Bogu.

Come, let us worship and fall down Priidite, poklonimsya i pripadem before the very Christ, our King and our God. Samomu Khristu Tsarevi i Bogu Come, let us worship and fall down before Him. nashemu.

Priidite, poklonimsya i pripadem Emu. Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Gospoda (Grecheskago raspeva); Bless the Lord, O My Soul (Greek Chant) Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Gospoda, Bless the Lord, O my soul, blessed art Thou, O Lord. blagosloven esi, Gospodi.

O Lord my God, Thou art very great.Blessed art Gospodi Bozhe moy, Thou, O Lord. vozvelichilsya esi zelo.

Thou art clothed with honor and majesty.

Blagosloven esi, Gospodi.

Blessed art Thou, O Lord.

Vo ispovedaniye i v velelepotu The waters stand upon the mountains. obleklsya esi. Blagosloven esi, Marvelous are Thy works, O Lord.

Gospodi.

Na gorakh stanut vody. Divna dela The waters flow between the hills.

Marvelous are Thy works, O Lord.

Tvoya, Gospodi.

In wisdom hast Thou made all things.

Posrede gor proydut vody.

Glory to Thee, O Lord, who hast created all!

Divna dela Tvoya, Gospodi Vsya premudristiyu sotvoril esi.

—Psalm 103[104]:1-2, 6, 24 Slava Ti, Gospodi, sotvorivshemu vsya —9—

TEXTS Blazhen muzh; Blessed is the Man. Blessed is the man, Blazhen muzh, izhe ne ide na who walks not in the counsel of the wicked. sovet nechestivykh. Alliluya.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Yako vest Gospod put pravednykh, i put nechestivykh For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Alleluia… pogibnet. Alliluya.

Serve the Lord with fear Rabotaite Gospodevi so and rejoice in Him with trembling. Alleluia… strakhom i raduitesya Emu s Blessed are all who take refuge in Him. Alleluia… trepetom. Alliluya.

Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! Alleluia…

Blazheni vsi nadeysushchisya Salvation belongs to the Lord, Nan. Alliluya.

Voskresni, Gospodi, spasi mya, and Thy blessing be upon Thy people. Alleluia…

Glory to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Bozhe moy. Alliluya.

Gospodene est spaseniye, i na both now and ever, and unto ages of ages. lyudekh Tvoikh blagosloveniye Amen.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Tvoye. Alliluya.

Glory to Thee, O God! (3x) Slava Otsu, i Synu, i Svyatomu Dukhu, i nyne i prisno i vo veki —Psalm 1:1, 6; 2:11, 12; 3:8, 9 vekov. Amin.

Alliluya. Slava Tebe, Bozhe.

Svete tikhiy (Kievskago raspeva)’ O Gladsome Light (Kyiv Chant) Gladsome Light of the holy glory of the Svete tikhyi svyatyya slavy, Immortal One— Bezsmertnago, the Heavenly Father, holy and blessed— Otsa Nebesnago, Svyatago O Jesus Christ!

Blazhennago, Iisuse Khriste!

Now that we have come to the setting of the Prishedshe na zapad solntsa, sun, videvshe svet vechernii, and behold the light of evening, poyem Otsa, Syna i Svyatago we praise the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—God. Dukha, Boga!

Thou art worthy at every moment Dostoin esi vo vsya vremena to be praised in hymns by reverent voices. pet byti glasi prepodobnymi, O Son of God, Thou art the Giver of Life; Syne Bozhii, zhivot dayai, therefore all the world glorifies Thee. temzhe mir Tya slavit.

Nïne otpushchayeshi (Kievskago raspeva); Now Lettest Thou (Kyiv Chant) Nyne otpushchayeshi raba Lord, now lettest Thou Tvoego, Vladyko, Thy servant depart po glagolu Tvoyemu s mirom: in peace, according to Thy word. yako videsta ochi moi spaseniye For mine eyes have seen Thy Salvation, Tvoye, which Thou hast prepared ezhe esi ugotoval pred litsem before the face of all people: vsekh lyudei, a light to enlighten the Gentiles, svet vo otkrovenie yazykov, and to be the glory of Thy people Israel. i slavu lyudei Tvoikh Izrailya.

—St. Luke 2:29-32

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TEXTS Bogoroditse Devo; Rejoice, O Virgin Rejoice, O Virgin Mother of God, Bogoroditse devo, raduisya, Blagodatnaya Mariye, Gospod s Mary full of grace, the Lord is with Thee.

Blessed art Thee among women, Toboyu. and blessed is the Fruit of Thy womb, Blagoslovenna Ty v zhenakh, for Thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. i blagosloven plod chreva Tvoyego, yako Spasa rodila esi dush nashikh.

Slava v vïshnikh Bogu (shestopsalmiye); Glory To God in the Highest (the six psalms) Glory to God in the highest, Slava v vyshnikh Bogu, and on earth peace, i na zemli mir, v chelovetsekh blagovoleniye. good will among men. (3x) Gospodi, ustne moyi otverzeshi, O Lord, open Thou my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim Thy praise. (2x) i usta moya vozvestyat khvalu Tvoyu.

—St. Luke 2:14; Ps. 51:15 Khvalite imya Gospodne (Znamennago raspeva); Praise the Name of the Lord (Znamennïy Chant) Praise the name of the Lord. Alleluia.

Khvalite imya Gospodne.

Praise the Lord, O you His servants. Alleluia.

Alliluya.

Khvalite, rabi, Gospoda. Alliluya. Blessed be the Lord from Zion, Blagosloven Gospod ot Siona, He who dwells in Jerusalem. Alleluia. zhivyi vo Iyerusaleme. Alliluya. O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, Ispovedaitesya Gospodevi, yako Alleluia.

For His mercy endures forever. Alleluia. blag. Alliluya.

Yako v vek milost Ego. Alliluya. O give thanks unto the God of Heaven. Alleluia. for His mercy endures forever. Alleluia.

Ispovedaitesya Bogu nebesnomu. Alliluya.

—Psalm 135:1, 21; 136:1, 26 Yako v vek milost Ego. Alliluya.

Blagosloven yesi, Gospodi (Znamennago raspeva); Blessed Art Thou, O Lord (Znamennïy Chant) Blessed art Thou, O Lord, Blagosloven esi, Gospodi, teach me Thy statutes. nauchi mya opravdaniem Tvoim.

The angelic host was filled with awe, Angelskiy sobor udivisya, when it saw Thee among the dead. zrya Tebe v mertvykh By destroying the power of death, O Savior, vmenivshasya, Thou didst raise Adam, smertnuyu zhe, Spase, krepost and save all men from hell! razorivsha, Blessed art Thou, O Lord, i s Soboyu Adama vozdvigsha i teach me Thy statutes. ot ada vsya svobozhdsha.

Blagosloven esi, Gospodi ...

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TEXTS Pochta mira s milostivnymi slezami, o uchenitsy, rastvoryayete; blistayaisya vo grobe angel, mironositsam veshchashe: ‘Vidite vy grob, i urazumeite: Spas bo vozkrese ot groba.’

Blagosloven esi, Gospodi ...

Zelo rano mironositsy techakhu ko grobu Tvoyemu rydayushchiya.

No predsta k nim Angel, i reche: ‘Rydaniya vremya presta ne plachite, voskresnye zhe apostolom rtsyte.’

Blagosloven esi, Gospodi ...

Mironositsy zheny, s miry prishedshyya ko grobu Tvoyemu, Spase, rydakhu.

Angel zhe k nim reche, glagolya: ‘Chto s mertvymi zhivago pomyshlyayete?

Yako Bog vo voskrese ot groba.’

Slava Otsu, i Synu, i Svyatomu Dukhu.

Poklonimsya Otsu, i Ego Synovi, i Svyatomu Dukhu, Svyatei Troitse vo edinom sushchestve, s Serafimy zovushche: ‘Svyat, svyat, svyat esi Gospodi.’

I nyne, i prisno, i vo veki vekov.

Amin.

Zhiznodavtsa rozhdshi, grekha, Devo, Adama izbavila esi.

Radost zhe Eve v pechali mesto podala esi: padshiya zhe ot zhizni, k sei napravi, iz Tebe voplotivyisya Bog i chelovek.

Alliluya. Slava Tebe, Bozhe.

“Why do you women mingle myrrh with your tears?” cried the radiant angel in the tomb to the myrrhbearers.

Behold the tomb and understand!

The Savior is risen from the dead!”

Blessed art Thou, O Lord, teach me Thy statutes.

Very early in the morning the myrrhbearers ran with sorrow to Thy tomb, but an Angel came to them and said: “The time for sorrow has come to an end!

Do not weep; announce the resurrection to the apostles!”

Blessed art Thou, O Lord, teach me Thy statutes.

The myrrh-bearers were sorrowful as they neared Thy tomb, but the Angel said to them: “Why do you number the living among the dead?

Since He is God, He is risen from the tomb!”

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

We worship the Father, and His Son, and the Holy Spirit: the Holy Trinity, one in essence!

We cry with the Seraphim: “Holy, Holy, Holy art Thou, O Lord!”

Both now and ever, and unto ages of ages.

Amen.

Since Thou didst give birth to the Giver of Life, O Virgin, Thou didst deliver Adam from his sin!

Thou gavest joy to Eve instead of sadness!

The God-man who was born of Thee has restored to life those who had fallen from it!

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Glory to Thee, O God! (3x)

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TEXTS Voskreseniye Khristovo videvshe; Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ Having beheld the resurrection of Christ, Voskreseniye Khristovo let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, videvshe, the only Sinless One. poklonimsya Svyatomu We venerate Thy Cross, O Christ, Gospodu Iisusu, and we hymn and glorify Thy holy resurrection, edinomu bezgeshnomu. for Thou art our God, and we know no other Krestu Tvoyemu than Thee; poklanyayemsya, Khriste, we call on Thy name. i svyatoye voskreseniye Tvoye Come, all you faithful, poyem i slavim: Ty bo esi Bog nash, razve Tebe let us venerate Christ’s holy resurrection.

For, behold, through the cross inogo ne znayem, joy has come into all the world. imya Tvoye imenuem.

Ever blessing the Lord, Priidite vsi vernii, let us praise His resurrection, poklonimsya svyatomu for by enduring the cross for us, Khristovu voskreseniyu: He has destroyed death by death. se bo priide krestom radost vsemu miru, vsegda blagosloyashche Gospoda, poyem voskreseniye Ego; raspyatiye bo preterpev, smertiyu smert razrushi.

Tropar: Dnes spaseniye (Znamennago raspeva); Troparion: Today Salvation is Come (Znamennïy Chant) Dnes spaseniye miru byst, Today salvation has come to the world. poyem voskresshemu iz groba Let us sing to Him who rose from the dead, i nachalniku zhizni nasheya: the Author of our life. razrushiv bo smertiyu smert, Having destroyed death by death, pobedu dade nam i veliyu He has given us the victory and great mercy. milost.

Tropar: Voskres iz groba (Znamennago raspeva); Troparion: Thou Didst Rise from the Tomb (Znamennïy Chant) Voskres iz groba i uzy rasterzal Thou didst rise from the tomb, bursting the bonds of Hades. esi ada, Thou didst destroy the condemnation of death, razrushil esi osuzhdeniye O Lord, smerti, Gospodi, releasing all from the snares of the enemy. vsya ot setei vraga izbavivyi, Thou didst show Thyself to Thine Apostles, yavivyi zhe Sebe apostolom and didst send them forth to proclaim Thee; Tvoim, and through them didst grant Thy peace poslal esi ya na propoved, to the world, i temi mir Tvoi podal esi O Thou Who art plenteous in mercy! vselennei, edine mnogomilostive.

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TEXTS Vzbrannoy voyevode (Grecheskago raspeva); To Thee, Victorious Leader (Greek Chant) Vzbrannoy voyevode To Thee, the victorious Leader of triumphant pobeditelnaya, hosts, yako izbavlshesya ot zlykh, we Thy servants, delivered from evil, blagodarstvennaya vospisuem offer hymns of thanksgiving, Ti rabi Tvoi, Bogoroditse.

O Theotokos!

No yako imushchaya derzhavu Since Thou dost possess invincible might, nepobedimuyu, set us free from all calamities, ot vsyakikh nas bed svobodi, so that we may cry to Thee: da zovyem Ti: “Rejoice, O unwedded Bride!”

‘Raduisya, nevesto Nenevestnaya.’

Transliterations and translations copyright Musica Russica, 2005.

Announcing Music Viva NY’s 2022-2023 season All concerts will be performed on Sundays at 5pm at All Souls September 11, 2022 Musica Viva NY Presents the Aeolus Quartet STRUM: Dvorák, Montgomery and Price Jessie Montgomery, Strum Florence Price, Quartet in A minor Antonín Dvořák, Quartet in G Major, Op. 106 October 30, 2022 THE RIVER OF LIFE: George Crumb and Carl Orff George Crumb, American Songbook No.1: The River of Life (selected songs) Carl Orff, Carmina Burana March 12, 2023 THE SORROW AND THE BEAUTY: Pärt, Lang, Burnhans, and Whitacre David Lang, The Little Match Girl Passion Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel Caleb Burnhans, Super Flumina Babylonis Eric Whitacre, Cloudburst May 21, 2023 LUX AETERNA: Schubert, Einhorn, Lauridsen and others Jessie Montgomery, Starburst Judith Bingham, The Darkness Is No Darkness Franz Schubert, Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167 Richard Einhorn, commission by Musica Viva NY on the theme of “Light” Morten Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna Full details will be available on our website at www.musicaviva.org from mid-July 2022

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MUSICA VIVA NY CHOIR Soprano

Tenor

Shabnam Abedi* Mary Esbjornson Katie McCreary* Emily Mikesell Erinn Sensenig* Motomi Tanaka* Laura Villaneuva Reldalee Wagner Sarah Worthington

Shawn Bartels* Paul D’Arcy* Doug Purcell* Noah Radcliffe Erik Rasmussen* Erik Resureccion Nathan Siler*

Bass

Alto Holly Drew Barbara Fusco* Rodolfo Girón* Kate Katigbak Madalyn Luna* Dinah Nissen Guadelupe Peraza* Bradley Strauchen-Scherer Andrew Troup* Denise Woods*

David Baldwin* Phillip Cheah* James Dargan* Nick Hay* Harold Norris Christopher Rothko Paul Whelan* Gus Young Mickey Zhang *Section leader

SPONSOR MUSICA VIVA NY There are many opportunities to play a role in bringing Musica Viva NY’s season to life as a sponsor, including: • Underwriting a concert • Underwriting the appearance of a professional singer or • orchestra member • Underwriting an appearance by the Aeolus Quartet • Underwriting an intimate post-concert reception with the artists

Naming opportunities are available for sponsors.

Contact Jasna Vasić, Executive Director at jasna@musicaviva.org.

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MUSICA VIVA NY Staff Artistic

Administrative

Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez Conductor and Artistic Director

Jasna Vasić Executive Director

Trent Johnson Assistant Director of Music

Ray Henninger Operations Administrator and Production Manager Dinah Nissen, Esq. Marketing Director Barbara de Bellis Librarian Hannah Nacheman Digital Marketing Consultant

Board of Directors Melanie Niemiec President

Lisa O’Brien, Esq. Treasurer

Bill Bechman Vice President

Constance Beavon Julie Brannan Shu-Wie Chen Dinah Nissen, Esq.

Winnie Olsen Secretary

Harold Norris Kate Phillips David Rockefeller, Jr. Thomas Simpson

Advisory Board Seymour Bernstein Laurel Blossom Renée Fleming

Galen Guengerich Susan Jolles Walter Klauss Artistic Director Emeritus

Jean-Louis Petit Bruce Saylor

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MUSICA VIVA NY PATRON SUPPORT LEVELS FOR OUR 2022-23 SEASON

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ecome a Patron of Musica Viva NY today! We need your generous contributions to support the outstanding concerts and outreach programming of the Musica Viva NY choir and instrumentalists. There is a level for every budget, and you will enjoy special benefits as a measure of our thanks. Your contribution can be made as a one-time gift, or on a recurring basis.

PATRON LEVELS APPASSIONATO $10,000 and above • Up to four Musica Viva NY soloists will perform at your private event in the NYC area • Invitation to a dinner featuring a special performance by the Artistic Director • Invitation to special Patron reception • Six complimentary season subscriptions • Reserved seating CON FUOCO $5,000 to $9,999 • A Musica Viva NY soloist will perform at your private event in the NYC area • Invitation to a dinner featuring a special performance by the Artistic Director • Invitation to special Patron reception • Five complimentary season subscriptions • Reserved seating

CON BRIO $3,000 to $4,999 • Invitation to a dinner featuring a special performance by the Artistic Director • Invitation to special Patron reception • Three complimentary season subscriptions • Reserved seating RISOLUTO $1,000 to $2,999 • Invitation to special Patron reception • Three complimentary season subscriptions • Reserved seating ESPRESSIVO $500 to $999 • Invitation to special Patron reception • Two complimentary season subscriptions • Preferred seating CANTABILE $100 to $499 • Invitation to special Patron reception • Preferred seating DOLCE $25 to $99 • Acknowledgment in program at all levels — 17 —

MUSICA VIVA NY PATRONS 2021-22

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e are deeply grateful to our Patrons listed below for their support of our 2021-2022 season. Thank you for joining us! Your support for our outstanding Musica Viva NY artists, our high-caliber, innovative choral and chamber music performances, and our community engagement is vital and essential.

Corporate and Foundation Support

Risoluto $1,000 - $2,999

Constance Beavon

Gunleif Jacobsen and Thomas Simpson Charitable Fund

Tom & Heli Blum Julie Brannan

The Blackbaud Giving Fund The Heart & Soul Charitable Fund New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Stillman Brown & Meg Raftis Holly Drew Richard and Cynthia Esposito

The Rea Charitable Fund

Victor Fidel and Heather Floyd

Appassionato $10,000 and above

Lois Gaeta, In Memory of David Remember Baker

Don & Georgia Gogel

Christopher Galas

Melanie & David Niemiec Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr.

Galen Guengerich & Holly Atkinson

Con Fuoco $5,000 to $9,999

Elizabeth Harvey

Jennifer Shotwell

Pamela Healey

Tom Simpson

Cherie Henderson & David Poppe

Con Brio $3,000 to $4,999

Rev. Dick Leonard

Bill Bechman & Tom Garlock

Carri Lyon

Lisa & Richard Cashin

Margaret T. MacCary

Shu-Wie Chen George Dorsey

Ricardo Mestres Jr. and Patricia T. Hayot

Dinah Nissen & Elizabeth Apelles

Harold Norris & Kell Julliard

Fritz Reuter

Winnie Olsen

Madonna K. Starr

Marnie Pillsbury

Brenda Walker & Peter Swords

Epp Sonin Karen Steele

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MUSICA VIVA NY PATRONS 2021-22 Aracy & Klaus Winter

Guy Quinlan & Mary Ella Holst

One Anonymous Donor

The Lynne S. Randall Charitable Fund

Espressivo $500 - $999

Katherine Redd

Lynne & Richard Allen

Barbara Reed & Dan Schlieben

Christina Bellamy

Gayle S. Sanders

Robin Bossert

Sheree Silvey & Philip Paty

Miles Chapin

Bradley Strauchen-Scherer

Barbara de Bellis, in memory of Greta Minsky

Elizabeth Millard Whitman

Dixie Goss & Dan Cryer

Four Anonymous Donors

Mary Gundermann

Dolce $25 - $99

James Moskin

Walter Daum

Kate Phillips

Bonnie Hetzel

Judy Samuelson & Vic Henschel

John T. Moran

Deborah Taylor

Ta Wei Tsai

Beverly Benz Treuille

Six Anonymous Donors

Ned Whitney & Martha Howell Cantabile $100 - $499

Anne Brewer Danielle Buonaiuto Sandra Lotz Fisher Jeffery & Marjory Friedlander Ed Harsh & Peggy Kampmeier Carol Kirkman Steven Lane Millie & John Liebmann Peggy Montgomery Marilyn Scott Murphy, in memory of Hector Phelps This list reflects gifts received from June 1, 2021 to May 9, 2022 — 19 —

Musica Viva NY is extremely grateful for the following help with its 2021-22 season from:

All Souls Unitarian Church (www.AllSoulsNYC.org) for Musica Viva NY’s meeting, rehearsal, performance, and reception spaces as well as for the facilities and events staff who help make all productions run smoothly

Greater than One (www.thegtogroup.com) for Musica Viva NY’s website and publicity design

Heart & Soul Fund, Inc. for its longtime support of our outreach programming

MVNY’s Community Engagement is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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