We’d like to know how many may be interested in taking a bus to Providence RI for the ACDA Eastern division conference in February 2012. Please click on this link and complete the form before Dec. 15. Thank you!
We’d like to know how many may be interested in taking a bus to Providence RI for the ACDA Eastern division conference in February 2012. Please click on this link and complete the form before Dec. 15. Thank you!
As President of Massachusetts ACDA I am writing to invite the participation of Vermont HS singers in an exciting day-long choral festival on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at UMass, Amherst. This is an unusual honor choir because it requires no auditions. HS directors may simply honor their most outstanding singers–up to two for each voice part SSAA/TTBB–by naming them to the Festival roster.
Distinguished clinicians will conduct two separate ensembles: Lynnel Jenkins (Princeton GirlChoir) for the women, and Sal Cicciarella (U. Hartford) for the the men. The HS and University of Massachusetts ensembles will combine under the baton of Dr. Tony Thornton to perform a number to close the evening Choral Spectrum concert in the UMass Fine Arts Center. Student registration is $45, which includes music and two meals. Registration for directors is free, including a music packet, reading session, Conductors Chorus, and luncheon with colleagues. 15 PDPs are available.
Last year this Festival attracted students from several high schools in our neighbor states. We would love to involve students from any Vermont public or private school HS.
You can find more information on the MA-ACDA website:
http://www.massacda.org/ACDA_calendar.htm
There is a link to the online registration form.
Music will be sent out immediately upon receipt of registration.
Deadline: Sept. 30
$50 late registrations to Oct 7.
No registrations accepted after October 7.
Thanks for your help!
Cathy Melhorn, President, MA-ACDA
I wanted to remind you all one more time that April 15, 2011 is the deadline for submission of your applications for Choir Performance at the Eastern Division ACDA Conference this coming year. This Conference promises to be exciting, broad based and more inclusive than any in recent memory! You may also have some information, special interest or talent that you might like to share through an Interest & Research Session.
The opportunity exists to have many of us involved, and if you are of the nature to do so, submit an application of your Choir for performance or yourself for an Interest and Research Session and see what happens! I would like to see Vermont represented in a very positive and visible way! We have much talent here and many fine choirs: Let’s show the Eastern Division what is happening in Vermont! Don’t question your worth or ability to compete! Apply now!!
Additionally, Honor Choir application deadlines are on JUNE 15, 2011…still another opportunity to have our wealth of student talent showcased by membership in these ensembles! Providence is a vibrant, exciting and beautiful city that is virtually in our back yard considering the locations we generally have to go to for an Eastern Division Conference! Our student, adult and choir participation should be at an all time high for this event!!
Online applications can be accessed at http://acdaeast.org/providence
Sincerely,
Frank Whitcomb
Exploring the music of the Mexican Baroque: Introduction and performance suggestions for the newly edited Los Maitines de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción by Ignacio de Jerusalem (1768).
Sherrill Blodget, Castleton State College
In recent years the music of sixteenth to eighteenth century viceroyal Mexico has gained exposure through research and modern performance. Motets, Masses, and villancicos by composers such as Ignacio de Jerusalem, Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, Manuel de Zumaya, and Juan Garcia de ZŽspedes have been performed and recorded by ensembles worldwide. Despite this recent rise in popularity and ongoing research into these musical traditions, much of this music remains inaccessible to modern choral and orchestral ensembles due to a lack of published editions and performance practice guides.
Ignacio de Jerusalem (1707-1769), maestro de capilla at the Mexico City Cathedral from 1750-1769, has been lauded as one of the most talented and important composers in eighteenth-century Mexico. Of his extensive output, which includes Matins settings, Vespers psalms, Latin motets, loas, villancicos, and several single- and double-choir Masses, the Matins services from his last decade are the most monumental in scale. The responsories include elaborate choral-orchestral settings and virtuosic concerted arias.
In an effort to make more of Jerusalem’s delightful music accessible to the public, my doctoral research focused on creating a historically informed performance edition of Los Maitines de Nuestra Se–ora de la Concepci—n (The Matins for Our Lady of the Conception) composed by Jerusalem in 1768. The Matins, which previously existed only in manuscript, is scored for SATB choir and soloists, and a chamber orchestra of violins, trompas (baroque horns and trumpets), oboes, flutes, basso continuo, and organ. The music exemplifies Jerusalem’s exquisite compositional style, which combines the galant, late baroque, and individual traits. In this setting the invitatory, hymn, and Responsories 1, 3, 4, and 6, are scored for choir and chamber orchestra, with solo sections. Responsories 2, 5, and 7 are set as arias for tenor, soprano, and alto. The arias display the theatrical, operatic aspects of Jerusalem’s writing, contrasting the simpler choral style in the choral responsories and introductory movements. The combination makes it possible for ensembles of varying experience to successfully perform sections or all of the Matins.
Based on my edition, the premier modern performance of the Invitatorio and first two Nocturns of the Matins was given by the Arizona Choir as the capstone concert for the Second International Symposium on Latin American Music “Exploring Exchange: Church and Theatre, Iberia and the Americas, Past and Present” at the University of Arizona in January, 2009. The music was very well received. I am currently working on the final Nocturn and preparing the entire edition for publication in 2010.
At the Eastern Division ACDA Conference Research Paper Session (Source Studies in the Music of the Baroque Era, Friday 4:00pm) I will provide an overview of the Matins for Our Lady of the Conception and will discuss performance practice challenges and programming considerations for modern concert settings. In addition I will highlight aspects of preparing the edition, presenting slides of the manuscript and the Cathedral and Archive of Mexico City to put the work in the context of the glorious setting for which it was originally composed and performed. Through sharing my research I hope to encourage further performances of this glorious Matins, and to spark further interest in creating performance editions of the wealth of manuscripts remaining in the archives of the Mexico City Cathedral and elsewhere in Latin America.
Hannah Chambers Anne Hamilton, Teacher North Country Union, Newport
Kaleigh Clowery Anne Hamilton, Teacher North Country Union
Leah Cornelius Anne Hamilton, Teacher North Country Union
Julia Doiron Mary Ellen Harlow, Teacher Mill River Union
Emy Geer Glory Reinstein, Teacher Essex High School
Lydia Koch Glory Reinstein, Teacher Essex High School
Alyssa Korol Alan Rowe, Teacher St. Johnsbury Academy
Tess Lebowitz Kathleen Fields/Esther Holland, Teachers Lyndon Institute
Olivia Root Chelsie Henderson/Melissa Towle, Teachers B.F.A. Fairfax
Robert Little Frank Whitcomb, Teacher Burlington High School
Zach Smejkal Caleb Pillsbury, Teacher Mt. Mansfield
Bengamin Stevens Anne Hamilton, Teacher North Country Union
Mark Tkach Glory Reinstein, Teacher Essex High School
Elizabeth Sachsse Kathy Sherlock-Green, Teacher
