Sunday, December 12, 1999
The 2000 May Festival season schedule
• May 19 — James Conlon, conducting; May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director; May Festival Youth Chorus, James Bagwell, director; Jane Adler, soprano; Kristine Jepson, soprano; John Aler, tenor; John Cheek, bass. Handel, Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem); J.S. Bach, “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring” from Cantata No. 147; Schubert, Two Choruses from Rosamunde, D. 797; Beethoven, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 122; Mozart, C Minor Mass, K. 427, “The Great.”
• May 20 — James Conlon, conducting; May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director; Concert Chorus of the City of Dusseldorf, Raimund Wippermann, chorus master; Cincinnati Boychoir, Randall N. Wolfe, director; Bridgett Hooks, soprano; Margaret Jane Wray, soprano; Jon Fredric West, tenor; William McGraw, baritone; John Cheek, bass. Mahler, Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Major, “Symphony of a Thousand.”
• May 26 — James Conlon, conducting; May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director; Cincinnati Boychoir, Randall N. Wolfe, director; Sumi Jo, soprano; David Kaasch, tenor. Daniel Brewbaker, A Cincinnati Psalm (world premiere May Festival commission); Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms; Carl Orff, Carmina Burana.
• May 27 — James Conlon, con ducting; May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director; Concert Chorus of the City of Dusseldorf, Raimund Wippermann, chorus master; Cincinnati Boychoir, Randall N. Wolfe, director; Margaret Jane Wray, soprano (Tove); Florence Quivar, soprano (Waldtaube); Jon Fredric West, tenor (Waldemar); Donald Kaasch, tenor (Klaus-Narr); Thomas Stewart, speaker. Schoenberg, Gurre-Lieder.
Special concerts
• 7 p.m., May 21, Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption — Robert Porco and James Bagwell, conducting; May Festival Chamber Choir, Robert Porco, director; May Festival Youth Chorus, James Bagwell, director; Jane Adler, soprano; Steven Rickards, countertenor; John Aler, tenor; John Cheek, bass; members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Scarlatti, Exultate Deo; Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l'onde (Hear the murmuring waters); Palestrina, Sicut Cervus; J.S. Bach, “Jesu, My Joy,” BWV 227; Cantata No. 106, “God's Time is the Very Best Time”; Carissimi, Jephte.
7:30 p.m., May 23, St. Peter in Chains Cathedral — Concert Chorus of the City of Dusseldorf, Raimund Wippermann, chorus master; Greater Cincinnati Children's Choir, Robyn Lana, artistic director; Mendelssohn, Two Psalms, Op. 78; Brahms, “Fest und Gedenkspruche”; Agneta Skold, Kyrie; Lars Edlund, Gloria; Knut Nysted, Sanctus from Missa Brevis, Op. 102; Haydn, Five Four-Part Songs: “Eloquence,” “Everything Has Its Time,” ""The Harmony of Marriage,” “The Moment” and “The Old Man”; Arne Melinas, “Dream”; Gunnar Hahn, Rondo Lapponico; Brahms, Selections from Gypsy Songs, Op. 103.
Information
• Subscriptions: Four Music Hall concerts ($36-$150; $189 box); Weekend One or Weekend Two ($21-$91); Festival Pass (four coupons to any May Festival concert in Music Hall, $73 or $110); single tickets ($11-$50; $53 box) will be available in late April.
Tickets for concerts in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St. Peter in Chains Cathedral are $20.
To receive a brochure call: 381-3300.
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