Music from Scotland, France, England and Italy with a captivating narration by Emmy Award winner (and television and radio personality) Robert Aubry Davis.
=0D=0A=The short life of Mary Queen of Scots (1542–1587) was the stuff of great drama. Why has this sixteenth-century Scottish queen captivated us for centuries? The layers of romance, deceit, political maneuvering, and the long Catholic and Protestant feud are all told in Mary’s tale.
=0D=0A=Program:
=0D=0A=Prelude
=0D=0A=The gowans are gay – John Forbes, Songs and Fancies, 1662
=0D=0A=Adew Dundee – Skene MS c. 1630–33
=0D=0A=Youth in France
=0D=0A=Reading: Fair flower of fifteen springs (Ronsard)
=0D=0A=C’est moys de May – Clément Janequin (1485–1558)
=0D=0A=Queen’s Pavane and Gaillarde – Estienne du Tertre, VIIme livre de danceries, 1557
=0D=0A=J’ay suis desheritée – Pierre Cadéac, Quart livre …chansons nouvelles, 1540
=0D=0A=Branles d’escosse – Estienne du Tertre
=0D=0A=Reading: Dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health… (Arbeau)
=0D=0A=A suite of branles – Thoinet Arbeau, Orchésographie, 1589
=0D=0A=Reading: Ronsard, if your good, gentle-natured heart (Mary)
=0D=0A=Mignonne allons voir si la rose – Ronsard, pub. Jehan Chardavoine, Voix de ville, 1576
=0D=0A=Gaillarde d’escosse – Pierre Phalèse, Liber primus leviorum carminum, 1572
=0D=0A=Bransle d’escosse – Estienne du Tertre
=0D=0A=Ma petite colombelle – Ronsard, Jehan Chardavoine, Voix de ville, 1576
=0D=0A=Intermission
=0D=0A=Back home in Scotland
=0D=0A=Lady Cassilles Lilt – AnonymousAlace, I ly alon – Anon. Skene MS
=0D=0A=What mightie motion Anon. – Thomas Wode’s Partbooks c.1562-1590
=0D=0A=Reading: For who can denie… (John Knox)
=0D=0A=Our Father God celestiall – Pierre Cadéac (fl.1538–1558)
=0D=0A=Lutenist, David Riccio, The Pope’s “spy”
=0D=0A=La Spagna – Francesco da Milano (1497–1543)
=0D=0A=Morir non può il mio core – Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590)
=0D=0A=Fantasia No. 34 – Francesco da Milano
=0D=0A=Imprisonment and Execution in England
=0D=0A=Reading: O Lord my God, receive my prayer (Mary)
=0D=0A=In Angel’s Wede – William Byrd (ca.1540–1623)
=0D=0A=Reading: Alive a Queen, now dead I am a Saint (Robert Southwell)
=0D=0A=A Scot’s Tune – Jane Pickeringe Lute Book, ca.1617
=0D=0A=Green grows the rashes – Anon., Balcarres Lute Book 1692–94
=0D=0A=Musicians:
=0D=0A=Mary Ann Ballard
=0D=0A=Mark Cudek, cittern, bass viol
=0D=0A=Larry Lipkis, viols, recorders
=0D=0A=Ronn McFarlane, lute
=0D=0A=Mindy Rosenfeld, winds
=0D=0A=Danielle Svonavec, soprano
=0D=0A=with Robert Aubry Davis, narrator
=0D=0A=Doors open at 6:45; pre-concert talk at 7:00.
=0D=0A=Youth and students are admitted free at the door.
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