De Apostolis (2007)

for soprano, cello, organ, and wine glasses

or

for Soprano, violin, cello, organ and wine glasses

or

For SATB Choir, Clarinet, Cello, double bass, keyboard and wine glasses

 

Program Notes

De Apostolis is an arrangement of a responsorial chant by Hildegard von Bingen. The text–De Apostolis: O Lucidissima Apostolorum turba–is a sequence praising all the saints. Like much of Hildegard’s work the text is full of vivid imagery and metaphor that inspires a chant of equally ecstatic melodic sweep and invention. I took the original Hildegard chant, translated it to modern rhythmic notation and added a cello and organ accompaniment. Wanting to create a musical equivalent to the spiritual ether suggested in Hildegard’s text, I included a chorus of droning wine glasses on the root and fifth of the work’s prevailing mode. There are three versions of the piece: the original for soprano, organ, cello and glasses; and two choral versions, one with violin and cello and the other with clarinet, cello and double bass. The choral versions highlight the responsorial structure of the chant, alternating between solo and choral sections.

Premiered November 14, 2007 Bates Recital Hall, UT Austin, Austin, TX. Lenore Alford, Organ, Leanne Zacharias, Cello, Gitanjali Mathur, Soprano, and various UT Austin composers on Wine Glasses.

Recorded live by Gitanjali Mathur, Soprano, Leanne Zacharias, Cello and Lenore Alford, Organ at Bates Recital Hall, University of Texas at Austin.
De Apostolis (original version) (PDF)
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Performances

November 30, 2019 Provincial Dome Building, Brandon, Manitoba. Brandon University Chorale and Chamber Players.

November 1, 2019 Provincial Dome Building, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Brandon Chamber Players.

November 22, 2015 Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, WI. Present Music.

May 15, 2015 First Lutheran Church, Boston, MA. Antico Moderno

May 24, 2013 Crescent Fort Rouge United Methodist Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Camerata Nova and the Correction Line Ensemble.

May 23, 2013 Repose and De Apostolis, Crescent Fort Rouge United Methodist Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Camerata Nova and the Correction Line Ensemble.

June 20, 2010 St. Johns Episcopal Church, Ross, CA.

March 28, 2010 Battell Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, CT.