Pomerium
Alexander Blachly, Director

Music for the Masses:
Illuminations in the Choir Books

Harold M. Williams Auditorium
J. Paul Getty Museum
Getty Center • Los Angeles, CA

7:30 p.m. 19 October 2007 • 3:00 p.m. 20 October 2007  

THE LIFE OF CHRIST

Advent I (Ms. Ludwig VI 6) Matins Responsory 1: Aspiciens a longe Hymn, Conditor alme siderum The Epiphany (Ms. 96) Lauds antiphon, Ante luciferum Vespers hymn, Te lucis ante terminum The Resurrection (Ms. VI 3) Easter introit, Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum Motet, In resurrectione tua The Ascension (Ms. 78) Ascension introit, Viri Galilei Motet, Omnis pulchritudo Domini

Gregorian Chant Costanzo Festa (ca. 1490-1545) Gregorian Chant Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) Gregorian Chant William Byrd (1543-1623) Gregorian Chant Adnreas de Silva (ca. 1475-ca. 1530)

THE HOLY SPIRIT & SAINTS

Pentecost (Ms. 86) Pentecost introit, Spiritus Domini replevit orbem Vespers hymn, Jam Christus astra ascenderat Conversion of St. Paul (Ms. 41) Motet, Saule, Saule St. John the Baptist (Ms. 94) Introit, De ventre matris mee Motet, Vox clamantis in deserto

Gregorian Chant Robert Parsons (ca. 1535-ca. 1572) Giaches de Wert (1534-1596) Gregorian Chant Giaches de Wert

THE VIRGIN MARY

Lent III Vespers (Ms. 97, leaf 2) Magnificat antiphon, Dixit autem pater ad servos suos Canticle, Magnificat octavi toni The Assumption of the Virgin (Ms. 44/Ludwig VI 5) Matins responsory, Vidi speciosam sicut columbam Motet, Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria

Gregorian Chant William Horwood (d. 1484) Gregorian Chant Josquin Desprez (ca. 1452-1521)

PRAISING GOD

Psalm 97 (Ms. 66) Psalm motet, Cantate Domino canticum novum

Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)

Pomerium
Kristina Boerger, Michèle Eaton, Dominique Surh - sopranos
Silvie Jensen - mezzo-soprano
Robert Isaacs - countertenor
Thom Baker, Neil Farrell, Michael Steinberger - tenors
Mark Duer, Jeffrey Johnson, Kurt-Owen Richards, Peter Stewart - basses