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Music Department

National Gallery of Art

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue nw

Washington, dc

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Landover, md 20785

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The Sixty-fourth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,581st Concert

National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble

Presented in honor of Bellini, Giorgione, Titian,

and the Renaissance ofVenetian Painting and

in connection with the Washington Early Music Festival

June 18, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Venetian Inspiration

Claudio Monteverdi

(1567-1643)

O ciecchi

Monteverdi

Cantate Domino

Duet for two sopranos

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

(c. 1525-1594)

Selections from The Song of Solomon

Descendi in hortum meum

Quam pulchra es

Surge arnica mea

Salomone Rossi (c. 1570-c. 1630)

Trio Sonata

Monteverdi

Confitebor tibi Domino

INTERMISSION

Madrigals of Love and Life

Rossino Mantovano Jacob Arcadelt (c. 1505-1568)

(fl. 1505-1511) II bianco e dolce cigno

Lirum bililirum

Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1560-1613)

Andrea Gabrielli (c. 1510-1586) Languisco e moro

Due rose fresche

Luca Marenzio (c. 1553-1599) 

Monteverdi Che fa oggi il mio sole

Ecco mormorar I’onde

Monteverdi

Zefiro, toma

Monteverdi

Beatus vir

The Musicians

This concert is the fifth by the National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble in its 

reconstituted form as a chamber choir. The ensemble’s artistic director,

Rosa Lamoreaux, has chosen a mix of vocal and instrumental works from

Venice and other great Italian musical centers ofthe Renaissance, recreating the musical milieu that surrounded Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and other

artists ofthat era. The singers participating in this concert are sopranos

Rosa Lamoreaux and Gisele Becker, altos Barbara Hollinshead and Roger 

Isaacs, tenors Tony Boutte and Philip Cave, and baritones Steven Combs

and Bobb Robinson, with instrumental music provided on period instruments by violinists Alexandra McCracken and Melissa Ruof, bass viol player

Tina Chancey, theorbo player Grant Herreid, and harpist Christa Patton.

For its third season (June 2 through 25, 2006), the Washington Early

Music Festival will focus on the music of Italy, taking advantage ofthe

festival’s overlap with the National Gallery’s major exhibition Bellini,

Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, open June 18

through September 17. The festival includes twenty-seven concerts in addition to this evening’s presentation, and its final concert will also take place 

at the Gallery. On June 25, at 6:30 pm, countertenor Drew Minter and an

ensemble ofinstrumentalists will present Italian songs and arias ofthe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. More information on the Washington

Early Music Festival is available at www.earlymusicdc.org.