Magnificat to Perform Cozzolani’s Mass
Celebrating A Decade of Cozzolani
Magnificat
On the weekend of December 4-6, Magnificat will celebrate the 10th anniversary of our first performances of the music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani with a program featuring her Messa a 4. The program will feature sopranos Catherine Webster and Jennifer Ellis Kampani, altos Meg Bragle and Kristen Dubenion-Smith, baroque cellist Warren Stewart and organist Hanneke van Proosdij. Hugh Davies will serve as celebrant chanting the texts reserved for priests in the mass.
The program is structured around the liturgy for Christmas Midnight Mass and will include Cozzolani’s setting of the mass ordinary and five of her motets on Christmas subjects interwoven with traditional Gregorian chant. The motets will include Ecce annuntio vobis, Quis audivit unquam tale?, O dulcis Jesu, and Gloria in altissimis. The program will also mark the modern premiere of O præclara dies from Cozzolani’s 1648 collection of solo soprano motets.
The program will be performed on Friday December 4 at 8:00 pm at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park; Saturday December 5 at 8:00 pm at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley; and Sunday December 6 at 4:00 pm at St. Mark’s Lutheran in San Francisco. A pre-concert lecture for all ticket holders will be given 45 minutes before each performance by Magnificat’s Artistic Director Warren Stewart.
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