A Special Project of Tenet
photos by Joanne Bouknight
Vespers of 1640
Green Mountain Project 2012
A Grand Festive Vespers in Venice, c. 1640 is the Green Mountain Project’s newest exploration of 17th century Italian sacred music. Our 2010 and 2011 performances of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers inspired us to perform more of the composer’s music for the evening office of Vespers.
We ‘ve fashioned a Marian Vespers, based on the 1610 model, featuring psalms and motets from later Monteverdi sacred works (we use the 1610 setting of the hymn, Ave maris stella) along with music by the great Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli and the Milanese composer-nun, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.
Our Vespers, c. 1640 recreates all the splendor of this golden age of sacred music.
DATES
7:30pm on January 3 and 4, 2012
Church of St. Jean Baptiste
Lexington Avenue at 76th Street
New York City
7:30pm on January 7, 2012
St. Paul’s Church
29 Mount Auburn Street (corner of Bow & Arrow Streets)
Cambridge, MA
This year’s project is part of Trinity Wall Street’s new Twelfth Night Festival. For more information about the festival’s many exciting activities, please visit Trinity Wall Street’s website.
PERFORMERS
- Jolle Greenleaf, soprano
- Molly Quinn, soprano
- Zach Wilder, tenor
- Jason McStoots, tenor
- Scott Mello, tenor
- Marc Molomot, tenor
- Sumner Thompson, tenor
- Jesse Blumberg, baritone
- David McFerrin, bass
- Virginia Warnken, alto chant
- Luthien Brackett, alto chant
- Jason Rylander, tenor chant
- Thomas McCarger, baritone chant
- Steve Hrycelak, bass chant
- Scott Metcalfe, violin
- Julie Andrijeski, violine
- Emily Walhout, bass violin
- Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto
- Alex Opsahl, cornetto
- Greg Ingles, trombone (NY)
- Brian Kay, trombone (MA)
- Erik Schmalz, trombone
- Mack Ramsey, trombone
- Liza Malamut, trombone
- Hank Heijink, theorbo
- Dan Swenberg, theorbo
- Avi Stein, organ
PROGRAM
You can see a PDF of this year’s program, including notes on the program by Scott Metcalfe, texts and translations, and performer bios here.
LIVE CD of Green Mountain’s Performance in 2010
We still have copies of the Green Mountain Project’s inaugural performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 on January 3, 2010 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of publication.
Please consider purchasing our double CD set and download the PDF of our commemorative program book. Every bit helps us continue to bring the project back each January, and it’s a fantastic recording made by 6 time Grammy Award winning recording engineer, Marc Aubort of Elite Recordings.
Download a PDF version of the Program of our 2010 performance here!
