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P R O G R A M 

PROGRAM

PANGE LINGUA GLORIOSI | c. 1250                      Thomas Aquinas                                                                  new lyrics by Jeffrey Bernstein 


RIVER | MELODY | 2023                                            Jeffrey Bernstein

PANGE LINGUA GLORIOSI | 1994                          Paul Gibson 


MISSA PANGE LINGUA | 1515?                              Josquin Desprez

solo quartet: Megan Schultze, Luke Jacobs,

                      Israel Segura, Max Henke 


AVE MARIA | 1475?                                                  Josquin Desprez 

 

THE PASADENA CHORALE STUDENT SINGERS

THE PASADENA CHORALE INSTRUMENTALISTS
THE PASADENA CHORALE

 

Jeffrey Bernstein, conductor


 

THE PASADENA CHORALE STUDENT SINGERS

Students in grades 6-8 from Blair Middle School,

Octavia E. Butler Middle School, and Pasadena Waldorf School 

Mavis Chadwick

Sadie Denver

Hazel Dinsmore

Mocha Fuentes

Angelina Hernandez

Mia Hjorth

Atticus Krentz

Cassidy Lehtonen

Zoe Lopez

Dash Loflin

Lula Matsuura

Muriel Malin

Genesis Medina 

Aviana Munguia 

Isadora Nunez 

Payton Owen 

Luna Roman-Smith 

Eliana Saenz De Maturana 

Shayla Starr 

Mila Torresan 

Abby Vasko 

Malena Vesbit 

Mars Villegas 

Adeline Wick


 

ARTISTS

Recording and photography during the performance are not allowed.

This concert is made possible in part by the generous support of 

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

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THE PASADENA CHORALE

Cindy Abbott

Maggie Bacharach

Kit Bellamy

Heather Bland

Erika Boychenko

Sara Brock

Rebecca Carter

Regelin Castillo

Daniel Clouse

Nicholas Cofrancesco

David Cooper

David Coren

Yunyun Dai

Sarah Egan

Alescia Ellis

Valerie Estle

Jenny Farrell

Sarah Finley

Zach First

Valerie Flores

Ian Flores

Inga Funck

Krista Hart

Kevin Hartnett

Max Henke

Cristina Hernandez

Hans Herst

GariLynn Hiscott

Meredith Hooper

Haley Hughes 

Luke Jacobs

Patty Judy

Martha Kahane

Matīss Kārkliņš

Lindsay Kearney

Cathy Kim

Ellen Kirstein 

Kim Knight

Becca Koester

Lisa Kohlenberger

Maria Lat

Belinda Lau

Paul Lazarus

Margaret Lazzarini

Kellum Lewis

Kevin Locarro

Denise Lumarda

Sarah Medina

Michael Merced

Sydney Moss

Dina Murokh

Jean Pallares-Leonard

Frances Pang

Jeffrey Parkin

Zephen Peter

Sandy Kuo Price

Marintha Prieto

Daniel Radmacher

Hannah Robertson

Matthew Scherb

Megan Schulze

Michael Schwartz

Israel Segura

Wendy Shattuck 

Nina Grace Shelby

Helen Sokol

Amador Solis

Alison Spielmann

Bonny Tennant

Chris Tickner

Kelsey Torosyan

Stephen Tully

Eric Vesbit

Dianne J. Waldman

Jen Wang

Jenny Werner

Eric Werner

Brittney S. Wheeler

Mandi White

Noemi Wognin

Helga Zambrano

Katherine Zodrow

LIBRETTO

For complete texts for tonight's concert, click here.

PROGRAM NOTES  

Josquin Desprez (1450?-1521) was widely recognized as the greatest European composer of his  time. He composed the Pange Lingua Mass late in his life, and the work shows his mature mastery  of counterpoint and expression. The Pange Lingua Mass is based upon the unison melody “Pange  Lingua Gloriosi” composed by Thomas Aquinas nearly 300 years earlier. Using this tune as a point of  departure, Josquin weaves it through each movement of the Mass, its basic structure changing  slightly with each appearance. In this way, the Pange Lingua Mass is like a set of variations on a  theme. 

This program is designed to give the audience a chance to hear the same tune in several guises, so  that by the time we hear the Josquin Mass, the Pange Lingua melody is somewhat familiar, as it  might have been for his audience. The Student Singers open the program singing the original tune,  first with the original lyrics and then with newly composed lyrics. The second piece, the newly  composed RIVER | MELODY, is based on the Pange Lingua melody too, but draped in a  contemporary style. Paul Gibson’s reverent setting of the Pange Lingua melody follows. A  kaleidoscopic meditation on the original tune, Gibson’s Pange Lingua Gloriosi explores the  implications of the melody, making a three-dimensional sound sculpture from a single line. 

Josquin’s Missa Pange Lingua uses the Pange Lingua melody as a point of departure. Each  movement begins with melody in slightly altered form, often in the tenor voice, and each movement  uses the melody’s intervals and contour as basic materials. The Pange Lingua Mass shows hallmarks  of Josquin’s mature style, including the frequent use of imitation, of duet textures and of increasing  density and activity at the ends of major sections. 

In the Ave Maria, we hear the work of a younger Josquin. Still present are duet textures and rhythmic  complexity, but set in a clearer, more spacious and more open texture. The Ave Maria was the first  piece of music published with moveable type (in 1501), and the piece is one of the most famous and  popular of the sixteenth century.  

—Jeffrey Bernstein

STAFF

THE PASADENA CHORALE

 

STAFF

FOUNDING ARTISTIC & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jeffrey Bernstein

 

ACCOMPANIST

Tali Tadmor

MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT

Bernie Fabig

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Annie Ranzani Makarchuk

EDUCATION DIRECTOR

Cynthia Abbott

ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR

Noah Gladstone

VIDEOGRAPHER

Alex McInnes

BOARD

CHAIR

Eric Vesbit


SECRETARY

Cynthia Abbott

 

TREASURER

Ellen Kirstein

 

BOARD MEMBERS

David Cooper

Jean Pallares-Leonard

Jeffrey Parkin

Jeannie Sears

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