Parthenia, Early-Music Ensemble with Soprano Julianne Baird

Sat Dec 19 09

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Parthenia, consort of viols, is joined by the accomplished soprano Julianne Baird for As it fell on a Holie Eve, a holiday collection of works by William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, and others.

FREE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS
Soprano Julianne Baird will also lead a free vocal master class with students preselected from the Kansas City area at the Forbis Recital Hall inside the Pillsbury Music Center, William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. The class is designed to be enjoyed by audience members; the public is invited to attend this free event at 1 p.m., Saturday, December 19 (the day of the performance). Reservations are not necessary.

Jay Carter, countertenor and William Jewell College artist in residence, will give a talk about early music and the evening's program at 7 p.m., Saturday, December 19, (an hour before the performance) at the Folly Theater, Kansas City, Mo.

links:
educational events

Parthenia's website

Julianne Baird's website

press release

PROGRAM LIST
full program and notes

Prelude and Voluntary
William Byrd
Remember, O Thou Man
Thomas Ravenscroft
From Virgin’s Womb this Day did Spring Byrd
From Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short
Aeirs
As it fell on a Holie Eve
The Cradle
The Night Watch
Anthony Holborne
From Gradualia seu cantionum sacrarum
O magnum misterium
Vidimus stellam
Puer natus est
Byrd
Gentil Madonna
Dublin Virginal Manuscript
Sweet was the Song
the Virgin Sung
Anonymous
Fantasia a 4
Byrd
Out of the Orient Crystal Skies
Byrd
Fantasia a 4
Giovanni Coprario
Fantasia a 3
Byrd
Lully, lulla
Shearmen & Tailors carol
Gigge
John Bull
Fantasia La sampogna
Thomas Morley
Fantasia a 4
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger
Divisions on Greensleeves
Anonymous
The Old Year Now Away is Fled
Traditional Waits’ carol