These concerts, featuring The Compline Choir, the Byrd Ensemble, acclaimed countertenor José Luis Muñoz, and a parley of instruments, will launch the centenary year of Peter Hallock’s birth. Programs will include music spanning the Renaissance to the present day, along with a selection of Hallock’s own compositions, and a song cycle for countertenor.
PROGRAM
COMPLINE
Costanzo Festa - Lamentations of Jeremiah
Peter Hallock - Lamentations
Erin Aas - What Hand Divine
*Page Smith, violoncello
JOSÉ LUIS MUÑOZ
Nico Muhly - Old Bones for Countertenor & Lute
*Elizabeth C. D. Brown, lute
Michael Nyman - Two Sonnets of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
John Hillebrandt - Selection of songs
*Andrea Rojas Duroy, piano
BYRD ENSEMBLE
John Sheppard - Libera nos I
Peter Hallock - I saw a new heaven
Thomas Tallis - Te lucis ante terminum
Peter Hallock - Draw on sweet night
John Sheppard - Libera nos II