Arcadia Players presents

Cantabile & Friends, “Heartaches and Earthquakes”
In recognition of the bitterly ironic coincidence of the name of this concert and the terrible events in Haiti,
the performers are pledging to donate a substantial portion of their professional fees to earthquake relief,
and Arcadia Players will be collecting free-will donations to Partners in Health.
Any profit from ticket sales beyond expenses will also be donated to that charity.

Cantabile Vocal Ensemble Diana Brewer, Dorie Goldman, James Mead, David Olsson, Peter W. Shea, and Kayla Werlin with guest viola da gambists Robert Eisenstein, Meg Pash, and Laurie Rabut and guest vocalists E. Wayne Abercrombie, Gregory Brown, David Fontes, Jonathan Harvey, Jack Tozzi and Marc Winer
Chansons and motets on love and loss by Gilles Binchois, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin de Prez, and Antoine Brumel and Missa "Et ecce terrae motus" (Earthquake Mass) by Antoine Brumel
Listen to excerpts from Cantabile's November 2008 "Music for Evensong" concert
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM	Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 3:00 PM
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 335 Longmeadow St. Longmeadow MA Directions and map (on church's website)	St. John’s Episcopal Church, 48 Elm St. Northampton MA Directions and map (on church's website)
Pre-ordered tickets: general $20, preferred $30. $5 more at door. Students always $10.	call 413 586-8742 (413 58-MUSIC) or www.CABOTIX.com.
Cantabile in 2007 L to R: David Olsson, Peter W. Shea, Kayla Werlin, James Mead, former member Deanna Joseph, Dorie Goldman not in picture: Diana Brewer Photo by Bill Sitler

Arcadia Players presents songs of love and loss from the Renaissance and Antoine Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass,” in a program performed by the vocal ensemble Cantabile, with guest vocalists and instrumentalists. The ensemble will present two performances of “Heartaches and Earthquakes,” on Saturday, January 16, at 7:30 PM at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 335 Longmeadow Street, Longmeadow, and Sunday, January 17, at 3:00 PM at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 48 Elm Street, Northampton.

Cantabile— Diana Brewer, Dorie Goldman, James Mead, David Olsson, Peter W. Shea, and Kayla Werlin— takes part in Arcadia Players’ 21st season, “A Season of Anniversaries,” with a program celebrating the anniversaries of Renaissance masters Johannes Ockeghem (b. 1410), Gilles Binchois (d. 1460), and Antoine Brumel (b. 1460).

In the first half of the program Cantabile will be joined by viol players Robert Eisenstein, Meg Pash, and Laurie Rabut, in chansons and motets for various combinations of voices and/or instruments by Ockeghem, Brumel, Binchois and Josquin des Prez. One of the Ockeghem works is a lament on the death of Binchois, but most of the sung texts highlight the perils and pains of love, some with humor and others more seriously.

The second half will consist entirely of Brumel’s unique and monumental “Missa Et ecce terrae motus,” better known as the Earthquake Mass, composed for twelve vocal parts, a highly unusual practice at the time. The work is based on the portion of the Gregorian chant for Easter Sunday that describes how the earth was shaken at the moment of Christ’s death. Brumel’s music does exactly that, in slow-moving pillars of sound decorated by shifting tapestries of musical motifs that range from agitation to exaltation. The six current members of Cantabile will be joined in the Mass by former members Jack Tozzi and Marc Winer, as well as by guest vocalists E. Wayne Abercrombie, Gregory Brown, David Fontes, and Jonathan Harvey.

Cantabile is a vocal ensemble based in the Massachusetts Pioneer Valley, specializing in a cappella performances of vocal chamber music from the European Renaissance and early Baroque eras of the 15th through 17th centuries. Since it was founded as an octet in 2001, the group has ranged in size and has consisted of six members for the past several years. Cantabile has performed before audiences in western Massachusetts and New York in concerts and numerous music series, among them Music at First and the Tuesday Morning Music Club in Springfield, the Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, Watermelon Wednesdays in West Whately, and Pacem in Terris in Warwick, New York. The ensemble has also given several performances in Arcadia Players’ concert series, including an all-Rossi program in 2007 and music for evensong from the English Renaissance in 2008. Its varied programs have included “Emily Dickinson’s World,” “Love, Shipwrecks, and the Virgin Mary,” “Saints and Sailors: Sacred, Sad and Silly Songs of the Sixteenth Century” and, most recently, “A Musical Feast.” Find more information at www.cantabile.us.

Tickets may be ordered in advance at 413-586-8742. Advance tickets are $20 general admission, $30 preferred seating, $10 students. Prices at the door are $25 general, $35 preferred, $10 students.

The season sponsor of Arcadia Players is WGBY. Arcadia Players also receives support from WFCR–88.5FM and the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

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