Watertown’s Patrick Waterts, a tenor, will perform with the Handel + Haydn Society in Cambridge an Boston.
Watertown resident Patrick Waters will sing tenor in the upcoming Handel and Haydn Society program, Monteverdi’s Vespers, in Boston and Cambridge.
The program features the work of Claudio Monteverdi and is led by conductor Harry Christophers and featuring Jeremy Budd (tenor) and Mark Dobell (tenor). The H+H orchestra and chorus will be joined by special guests, The Handel and Haydn Young Women’s Chamber Choir, conducted by Alyson Greer.
“Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610,” shares conductor Harry Christophers, “is quite simply one of the greatest works of sacred music ever written and without doubt the most varied and inspired before Handel and Bach began composing their oratorios and passions. Its variety alone makes it unique – thrilling psalm settings with virtuosic writing for both multi-part choir and instrumentalists to exotic and sensual settings of texts. Every movement is full of luscious harmonies, beautifully constructed for all concerned.”
Performances will take place on Friday, April 7 (7:30 p.m.) at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston and Sunday, April 9 (3 p.m.) at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge. Tickets range from $33-107 and may be purchased by calling 617-266-3605, visiting handelandhaydn.org, or in person at 9 Harcourt Street in Boston (Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.). Student and group discounts are available.
“Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 suggests something didactic,” shares H+H Historically Informed Performance Fellow Teresa M. Neff, Ph.D., “how to blend old and new styles of composition: inserting instrumental passages in a vocal composition, incorporating existing (church) music, and using contemporary vocal techniques within highly imitative passages. It is a work, however, that transcends its function. Monteverdi’s mix of modern and traditional, voice and instrument, choral and solo, sustained sound and virtuosic activity reaches beyond the expression of either text or music alone.”
H+H will also perform the Monteverdi Vespers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur on Saturday, April 8, (7 p.m.) in New York, marking H+H’s return to New York for the first time in 26 years.
Program: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Vespers of 1610
Dixit Dominus from Vespers of 1610
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, conductor
Pulchra es from Vespers of 1610
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, conductor
Click this link to listen to audio clips: https://handelandhaydn.org/concerts/2016-2017/Monteverdi-Vespers