Event Concerts and Performances Washington Men's Camerata
Date and Location
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When: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
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Where: Online Only
Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress
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Watch Frank Albinder and the Washington Men’s Camerata take us through a survey of music by Barber, Beach, Fine, Foote, Weber, Wagner and more! This program of music for men’s chorus by American and German composers is drawn mostly from music that the Library holds in manuscript. From the zany McCord’s Menagerie of Irving Fine to the beautiful and little-known So Sweet is She by Patty Stair, this repertoire has a lot to offer. BONUS: You can join James Wintle of the Music Division in a webinar for a special behind-the-scenes look at this music at 1pm ET on February 21. Register for “Music for Men’s Chorus at the Library of Congress” here, all are welcome!
Download the program here!
This concert was made possible with the generous support of the Verna and Irving Fine Endowment in the Library of Congress.
Schedule
Program
GEORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK
Jehovah Reigns in Majesty
JOSEF RHEINBERGER
Ave Maria
IRVING FINE
McCord’s Menagerie
FRANZ LISZT
Fragment
JOHANNES DÜRRNER
Kyrie at Sea
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Wasserfahrt
AMY BEACH
Sea Fever
ARTHUR FOOTE
Hear my prayer, O God
JOHANNES BRAHMS / DUNHAM
“How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place” from Ein deutsches Requiem
ROBERT FRANZ / GROTENHUIS
Farewell
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
The Joy of the Hunter
RICHARD WAGNER
“Pilgrim’s Chorus” from Tannhäuser
HORATIO PARKER
Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind!
PATTY STAIR
So Sweet is She
SAMUEL BARBER
Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil)
IRVING FINE
“Pianola d’Amore” from The Choral New Yorker
Event Resources
- Biography: George W. Chadwick
- Biography: Irving Fine
- Irving Fine Collection online resource
- Irving Fine Collection finding aid
- Holograph manuscript fragment from Franz Liszt’s Vereins-Lied
- Autograph letter to Robert Franz from Franz Liszt, 1859 December 30 (in German)
- Inquiring Minds Raising a Curtain on Amy Beach, Musical Pioneer [blog post]
- Biography: Arthur Foote
- Hear my Prayer, O God printer’s proof annotated by Arthur Foote (undated) and manuscript from the A. P. Schmidt Company Archives
- Ein deutsches Requiem, holograph manuscript by Johannes Brahms for piano four-hands, 1869
- Biography: Horatio W. Parker
- “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind,” op. 14 [webpage]
- “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind,” op. 14 [sheet music]
- Biography: Patty Stair
- “So Sweet is She” by Patty Stair [article]
- Samuel Barber at the Library of Congress
- Biography: Samuel Barber
- Program