Sunday Afternoon at the Greenough House Parlor Concert

March 15: Concordia Consort

CONCORDIA CONSORT, MetroWest’s Recorder Quartet under the direction of Shiela Beardslee Bosworth, presents Teares of A Sorrowful Soule, a program of  Renaissance and Baroque settings of chorales and psalms for Lent, on Sunday, March 15, 2015, at 3:00 p.m., at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA. , as part of the Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House Parlor Concert Series.

The music is intense, harmonically biting and bitter sweet in tone for this penitential season. Members of the Concordia Consort, Nouri Newman and  Brian Warnock, recorders, and Sheila Beardslee, director, will welcome guests Alan Karass, recorder and Eileen Cecilia Callahan, soprano. Among the beautiful German chorale tunes included are “Vater unser im Himmelreich,” “Durch Adams Fall” and “O Lamm Gottes unschuldig” in simple hymn-like settings and transcriptions of complex organ chorale preludes.   Included in the psalm settings are Hassler’s deeply chromatic “Ad Dominum tribularer”, Alessandro Scarlatti’s passionate “Ad te Dominum levavi animam meam” and Byrd’s heartfelt “Miserere mei.” In addition to these psalms and chorales, the Consort is featured in fantasias and psalm settings by English composers Bull and Morley and Italian masters Cato and Lasso.

Meet the musicians of the Concordia Consort at afternoon tea following the program.

The Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century “musical afternoons” in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House, twice monthly, October to May. Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

Founded in 1995, Concordia Consort is the performance ensemble representing Recorders/Early Music MetroWest, the metroWest’s participatory early music program. For over a decade, Concordia has contributed period music for churches throughout New England. Concordia
has been heard in live broadcast on WCRB, WHRB and WGBH Radio and has performed concerts in historic King’s Chapel and St. Paul’s Cathedral in  downtown Boston, at Middlesex Community College, MIT Chapel and Williams College, for the Concord Museum, and other venues.

Named Ensemble-in-Residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord, Concordia Consort frequently performs there on Sundays with the Parish Choir and in concerts during the year. Concordia has collaborated with Portsmouth (NH)-based Pavane Renaissance Dance Ensemble for a survey of Elizabethan music, dance and poetry and often joins forces with members of Ars & Amici vocal ensemble. Guest soloists have included sopranos Eileen Cecelia Callahan and Harriet Bridges, countertenor Andrei Caracoti, and lutenist William Good. Concordia’s CD, “Ay me, Ohime!,” was released in 2009. For more information on the Concordia Consort, visit www.concordiaconsort.com.

Built in 1760, the Loring-Greenough House, a local landmark listed on the Massachusetts and National Registers of Historic Places, is located at 12 South Street (at the Civil War Monument) in Jamaica Plain, MA. It is owned and managed by the non-profit Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. as a historic house museum and site for art and music presentations. The Loring-Greenough House is wheelchair accessible. For more information on the Loring-Greenough House, see www.loring-greenough.org.

For reservations or directions, call (617)524-3158, or email  lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

The 15th season of the Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century “musical afternoons” in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House, twice monthly, October to May. Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

2014-2015 Season

October 5, 2014: Mignarda: American lute song duo Ron Andrico & Donna Stewart
October 19, 2014: Jeri Jorgenson, violinist on the faculty of Colorado College, & Forte Pianist,
preparing the entire Beethoven violin and piano cycle for the 15-16 season.
November 2, 2014: David Owens, D’Anna Fortunato. Premier. chamber song group, At the
Landing — Verses from a Poet’s Life, which is scored for voice, flute, viola and harp.
November 16, 2014: Balint Karosi: harpsichord recorder and baroque flute concert with Héloise
Dégrugillier
December 7, 2014: Brian Friedland: Jazz on the forte Piano
January 4, 2015: Alicia Mielka, flute
February 1, 2015: Shirley Hunt– baroque cellist and viola

February 15, 2015: Pentimento
March 1, 2015: Impromptu Trio. Guitar, Trumpet and Bass (Liz Horwitz)
March 15, 2015: Concordia Consort
April 12, 2015: Nick Cutroneo–classical Guitar