Ars et Amici

Elizabethan Pleasures

Madrigals for 4-6 voices from the Golden Age of English music. Works by Morley, Tomkins, Gibbons, Byrd, Wilbye & others.

September 2007

Elizabeth’s Music: Motets & Madrigals from Court & Chapel

Music by some of the greatest Elizabethan composers for Her Majesty’s court & chapels, including works by Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons, Morley, Wilbye, Dowland, Farmer & others.

Two performances in November 2007.

Details on our August 2008 concert of music from the CounterReformation will be available soon.

Repertoire will include

• Palestrina Missa ‘L’homme armé’
• Victoria Lamentations from the First Nocturn
• motets by Guerrero, Lassus & others

Our ninth tour in Italy included performances in Naples, Sorrento & Rome.

• Naples: Mass at San Carlo Borromeo & Christ Church (Anglican)
• Sorrento: Mass at the Cattedrale & Concert at Chiesa dei Servi di Maria
• Rome: Concert & Mass at Sant’Alfonso, Mass at Santa Susanna,  Mass at San Pietro

Gesualdo Toccata (recorders)
Macque Canzona Quarta alla francese (recorders)
Macque Consonanze stravaganti (recorders)
Mazzone Come la vaga
Morales Clamabat autem mulier
Palestrina Adoramus te, Christe
Palestrina Missa brevis — Kyrie & Agnus Dei
Scarlatti Exaltabo te Domine (with recorders)
Trabaci Durezze, e ligature (recorders)
Victoria Lamentatio. Lectio I-III
Wert Vox in Rama

2008 Ars et Amici participants

Sopranos Cathryn Baty, Helen Chen, Lucy O’Mara, Catherine Orloff Altos Dianne Boucher, Catherine Cummins, Elizabeth DeMarrais, Joan Griscom, Nancy Peacock
Tenors Keith Ohmart, Andrew Sigel
Basses Robert Cochran, George Mastellone, Roland Miller, Robert O’Mara 

Recorders Christine Alderman, David Barnert, Jean Hopkins,
Nancy Kesselring, George Mastellone

Director Sheila Beardslee

If you are interested to join us on a future trip, please contact Sheila Beardslee: sheilabb@verizon.net.
Singers, instrumentalists, family and friends welcomed.