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Music Department

National Gallery of Art

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The Sixty-eighth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,780th Concert

Stanford Chamber Chorale

Stephen Sano, conductor

with

Chatham Baroque

and National Gallery ofArt Chamber Players

March 28, 2010

Preconcert Talk 6:00 pm

“The Passion in Art”

West Building Lecture Hall

Concert 6:40 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Presented in honor of The Sacred Made Real:

Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Selections from Passio secundumJohannem, BWV 245 (1724)

(The Passion according to Saint John)

Part 1

Betrayal and Capture

Herr, unser Herrscher (Chorus)

O groRe Lieb (Chorale)

Von den Stricken meiner Siinden (Alto)

Denial

Ich folge dir gleichfalls mit freudigen Schritten (Soprano)

Wer hat dich so geschlagen (Chorale)

Ach, mein Sinn, wo willt du endlich hin (Tenor)

Petrus, der nicht denkt zuriick (Chorale)

Part 2

Interrogation and Flagellation

Christus, der uns selig macht (Chorale)

Betrachte, meine Seel’ (Bass)

Erwage wie sein blutgefarbter Rucken (Tenor)

Condemnation and Crucifixion

Und die Kriegsknechte flochten eine Krone von Dornen

(Evangelist [Tenor])

Sei gegrufiet, lieber Judenkonig (Chorus)

Und gaben ihm Backenstreiche (Evangelist, Pilate [Bass])

Kreuzige, kreuzige (Chorus)

Pilatus sprach zu ihnen (Evangelist, Pilate)

Wir haben ein Gesetz (Chorus)

Da Pilatus Wort horete (Evangelist, Pilate, Jesus [Bass])

Durch dein Gefangnis (Chorale)

The Death ofJesus

Er nahm Alles wohl in Acht (Chorale)

Burial

O hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn (Chorale)

Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (Chorus)

Ach Herr, lafi dein’ lieb’ Engelein (Chorale)

Lisa Solomon, soprano

Sondra Hellstrom, mezzo-soprano (alto)

Kyle Duff, Chinsan Han, Eric Tuan, tenors

Christopher Bowen, Peter Hawkins, basses
The Musicians

STANFORD CHAMBER CHORALE

Comprised oftwenty-eight graduate and undergraduate students, the Stanford

Chamber Chorale is the Stanford University Department of Music’s most

select choir. Hailing from across the United States and around the world, the

singers represent a variety of academic disciplines and degree programs.

Members ofthe Chamber Chorale meet a demanding schedule ofperforming,

touring, and recording while maintaining their rigorous academic programs.

The Chorale has toured in Austria, China, England, France, Germany,

Israel, Italy, Japan, Scotland, the United States, and Wales. It has appeared

at notable venues including the great British cathedrals in Ely, Lincoln, 

Llandaf (Cardiff), Salisbury, Wells, and York; at the great parish churches

Romsey Abbey and Saint Mary Redcliffe (Bristol); and at Trinity College

Chapel (Cambridge), New College Chapel (Oxford), and Magdalen College 

Chapel (Oxford). In Japan the Chorale has perfomed at Rikkyo University

Chapel, Hakodate Geijutsu Hall, and Kitahiroshima-shi Geijutsu Bunka

Hall. The Chorale has also appeared at the Great Hall ofthe People (Beijing), 

the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre and the Shanghai Concert Hall, and

Benaroya Music Center (Seattle).

The Chorale has collaborated with England’s Tallis Scholars, Choir

ofTrinity College, Cambridge, and Joyful Company of Singers; the Berlin

Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kammerchor der Universitat der Kiinste 

Berlin, the St. Hedwig Domchor (Berlin); and the Kammerchor der Universitat Wien (Vienna), the Kronos Quartet, and master flamenco guitarist Paco

Pena. Dedicated to the performance ofliterature best suited to the small

choral ensemble, the Chamber Chorale has had the honor ofreceiving

works from composers Randall Thompson, Kirke Mechem, Howard Helvey,

Takeo Kudo, Jiri Laburda, and Paul Crabtree.

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STEPHEN M. SANO

Stephen M. Sano is associate professor and chair ofthe Department of Music,

and the inaugural chair holder ofthe Professor Harold C. Schmidt Directorship ofChoral Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford

Chamber Chorale and Symphonic Chorus. He holds master’s and doctoral 

degrees in both orchestral and choral conducting from Stanford and a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and music theory from San Jose State

University. Sano has appeared as guest conductor with many ofthe world’s

leading choral organizations, including the Choir ofTrinity College, Cambridge; the Joyful Company of Singers (London); the Kammerchor der Universitat der Kiinste (Berlin); and the Kammerchor der Universitat Wien (Vienna).

He has served on the conducting faculty ofthe Wilkes University Encore

Music Festival of Pennsylvania and frequently appears as guest conductor of

the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra in its collaborative concerts with the

Stanford Symphonic Chorus. A dedicated teacher at Stanford, Sano received 

the 2005 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has studied at the

Tanglewood Music Center and is in frequent demand as a master class teacher, 

conductor, and adjudicator in choral music. He has taught master classes and

conducted festival, honor, and collegiate choirs from more than twenty states

as well as from Austria, Australia, Canada, England, Germany, and Japan.

An accomplished pianist, Sano has won numerous piano competitions,

has served as accompanist to many leading artists visiting the San Francisco 

Bay Area, and has performed on the harpsichord with the International

Chamber Orchestra of Rome. He is also active in his ancillary fields ofinterest,

Hawaiian choral music, the music ofQueen Lili’uokalani, kl ho'alu (Hawaiian

slack key guitar), and North American Taiko (Japanese-American drumming).

Sano’s choral recordings can be heard on the ArsisAudio, Pictoria, and Stanford labels. His slack key guitar recordings appear on the Daniel Ho Creations

and Ward Records labels.

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CHATHAM BAROQUE

The three Pittsburgh-based musicians who make up Chatham Baroque

continue to excite audiences with their dazzling technique and artful

interpretations. The Chicago Tribune recently called the group “a splendid

period-instruments ensemble” while the Washington Post labeled the trio as

“musically impeccable.” The virtuosic baroque violin pyrotechnics of Andrew

Pouts, the rich, fluid lines ofthe viola da gamba as played by Patricia Halverson, and the alluring sounds ofthe theorbo in the hands of Scott Pauley

combine to provide a unique insight into the music of the Baroque. Founded

in 1991, Chatham Baroque has taken its internationally renowned concert

and education programs to the British Virgin Islands, Mexico City, Montreal,

and Toronto as well as many venues in the United States, including the

District ofColumbia. The ensemble has been heard on CBC/Radio-Canada, 

Indiana Public Media’s Harmonia, WHSU Public Radio’s Sunday Baroque,

and American Public Radio’s Performance Today.

When “offthe road,” the three musicians present a successful concert

series in Pittsburgh. With the addition of guest artists for many ofthese

programs, the ensemble has produced such programs as “Espanoleta”

with guest percussionist Danny Mallon, “Bohemian Rhapsody” with guest

baroque trumpeter Barry Bauguess, and “Music ofthe Jewish Diaspora”

with soprano Anna Levenstein.

Chatham Baroque has released seven best-selling CDs on Dorian Records

to critical acclaim. Both The Scotch Humour and Henry Purcell: Sonatas and

Theatre Music received five-star ratings from Europe’s Goldberg magazine.

Recorded in Pittsburgh in April 2009, the ensemble’s CD of vocal and instrumental music by the 17th century Italian composer and lutemst, Giovanni 

Girolamo Kapsperger, will be released later this year.

Partcipating in this concert as guest players with Chatham Baroque are 

Erika Cutler, playing baroque violin, J. Tracy Mortimore, playing the violone,

and John O’Brien on chamber organ.

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART CHAMBER PLAYERS

The National Gallery ofArt Chamber Players specialize in the interpretation of

instrumental music written before 1750. They first appeared in concert at the

end ofthe 2006-2007 season, performing “A Musician’s Travels in Sound, 

1430-1700” in honor ofthe exhibition Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places:

Travels on Paper, 1450-1700, and in November 2008 they joined the Gallery’s

Vocal Ensemble in a program honoring Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered. National Gallery ofArt Chamber Players participating in this concert are 

Alicia Kosack and Steven Zohn, playing baroque flutes, Ryan Jones and Sarah 

Weiner, playing baroque oboes, and Risa Browder, violist.

Upcoming concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

National Gallery ofArt String Quartet

With Henry Valoris, violist, and Marion Baker, cellist

Requiem aetemam (after Victoria)

Music composed by Stephen Hough for the exhibition

The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700

April 4, 2010

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

East Building Auditorium

Del Sol String Quartet

Music by Glass, Leon, Szymanski, and Ung

April 11, 2010

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Garden Court