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Season VII
Concert Schedule.
Spring 1988 . . . Fall 1987

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Spring 1988:  May 1 @  

SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Center

Mass in B-minor
Kyrie Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Kyrie eleison
Gloria Gloria in excelsis Et in terra pax Laudamus te
Gratias agimus tibi Domine Deus Qui tollis peccata mundi
Qui sedes ad dextram Patris Quoniam tu solus sanctus Cum Sancto Spiritu
Symbolum Nicenum Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem Et in unum Dominum
Et incarnatus est Crucifixus Et resurrexit
Et in Spiritum sanctum Dominum Confiteor Et expecto
Sanctus Sanctus Pleni sunt cœli
Osanna, et cetera Osanna in excelsis Benedictus Osanna in excelsis
Agnus Dei Dona nobis pacem

JS Bach
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green lilies

"Long and frequent rehearsals have brought this performance about. After ... the wage-earning day, these ... Master Singers have converged on time at a rehearsal spot for two hours or more to make sounds that early on could be mistaken for cacaphony. They have done this once, twice, or even three times a week for almost a year. A member keeping attendance records has calculated that the seventy-three singers have spent over three thousand hours in rehearsal... stretched beyond their own realization, to a mutual musical and spiritual conquest. These Master Singers ... joined the ranks of those who have sung the B Minor Mass. They know it, note for note, better than some erudite critics who write reviews of it. ... They have endured; nothing they've done in the past compares with it." -- Marjorie Otis Gifford from concert progam notes.

Soloists:

Soprano

Alto

Tenor

Bass

Rosa Lamoreaux Beverly Benso Patrick Romano Nathaniel Watson

Concert Master:

Louise Schulman

Accompanist:

Cindy Spence

Now Playing:
Dona nobis pacem from B Minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach
as performed in memory of the victims of 9/11
as an encore to the Nov. 2001 Master Singers concert


Fall 1987:

 November 15 @ SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Center

Requiem
Introit and KyrieOffertorySanctus
Pie JesuAgnus Dei Libera meIn paradisium

"It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience. " -- Gabriel Fauré

G Fauré
Faure pic

Cantata 79
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild Gott ist unsre Sonn und Schild
Nun danket alle Gott Gottlobb, wir wissen
Gott, ach Gott Erhalt uns in der Wahrheit

JS Bach
JS Bach thumbnail

Soloists:

Soprano

Baritone

Rosa Lamoreaux Nathaniel Watson

Concert Master:

Dorothy Happel

Accompanist:

Cindy Spence

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