tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40269883059429811722024-03-12T15:48:51.142-07:00Tactus SF<b>Tactus SF</b><br>San Francisco Bay Area Early Music Community Chamber ChoirTactus SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05321198045943052839noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026988305942981172.post-36744360439246774982023-12-31T06:13:00.000-08:002024-02-13T22:08:13.147-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><center>
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<h1><b>The Unrecorded Odyssey: Voices from the Archives</b><br>
<h2>Sunday, February 11, 2024, 4:00 p.m.<br>
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church - 3281 16th St. San Francisco</h2>
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Tactus SF is delighted to present "The Unrecorded Odyssey: Voices from the Archives," a special concert showcasing rare and predominantly unrecorded Renaissance music. This one-time event offers a unique opportunity to hear rarely-performed compositions, many of which have only recently been published and introduced to a broader audience. These pieces provide a rare glimpse into the rich and varied archives of Renaissance music—including music by women composers and composers working in New Spain.
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Tactus SF, a twenty-voice choir specializing in Renaissance a cappella music, will be joined by guest artists: the Renaissance wind ensemble Mane Musica, organist Eugene Petrushansky, and Baroque violinist Caroline Armitage.
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The concert—about an hour and a half long—will feature Tactus SF in a spectacular set of six madrigals by Orazio Vecchi on a poem of Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) dramatizing the odyssey of a soul afloat in a fragile boat among dangerous rocks, as well as two settings of the Magnificat by the Spanish-born Hernando Franco, master of music at the cathedral of Guatemala City, a motet by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, active at the cathedral of Puebla in Mexico, and a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Spanish composer Cristóbal de Morales.
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Instrumental compositions will include pieces by Italian composers Isabella Leonarda, Maddalena Casulana, Tiburtio Massaino, and Girolamo Frescobaldi, as well as the Netherlandish composer Heinrich Isaac.
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We hope you will join us to hear music you can't hear anywhere else.
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Tactus SF Music Director Elizabeth Kimble will be stepping down from her role in June 2024, following our concert at the biennial Berkeley Early Music Festival and Exhibition this summer. Ms. Kimble, who has led Tactus SF since 2021, is currently finishing a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and will be increasingly engaged in that work, while maintaining aspects of her musical life as composer, conductor, singer, and teacher.
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Tactus SF was recently featured on the KALW radio show, On the Arts:
<a href="https://www.kalw.org/show/on-the-arts/2023-08-21/tactus-sf-cantus-mexicanus-exploratorium-carbon-song-cycle-peter-robinson">Listen to our director Elizabeth Kimble in the live interview (the first ~20 minutes).</a>
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<br><i>Tactus SF performing in St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. (Photo credit: Caroline Armitage)</i></center>
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<h1>Greghesche––The Greeks in Venice</h1>
<h2>Recorded in December 2021<br>
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The Greek community in Venice dates back to the Middle Ages, but increased in population especially after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. These Greeks brought with them ancient writings that had been lost in the West. Tactus SF presents a set of Venetian Renaissance pieces influenced by Greeks: a polyphonic setting of a Greek Orthodox hymn, settings of texts from Virgil's Aeneid (the story of soldiers displaced by the Greek victory over Troy), music by Venetian Greek composers, and selections from a madrigal book in Greghesche, a language used by Greeks in Venice during the Renaissance.
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<b>Recorded in December 2021, we just released this short set as a video playlist, free and available to all, to celebrate our milestone of surpassing a hundred YouTube subscribers. Enjoy!</b>
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Tactus sings:
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<b>October 26, 2019<br>Saturday, 4pm</b><br>
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church<br />
1823 Ninth Street<br />
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<b>October 27, 2019<br>Sunday, 4pm</b><br>
Church of the Advent<br>
261 Fell Street<br>
San Francisco, CA
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Jonathon Hampton directs the 16-voice, early music chorus, Tactus SF, as it begins its fourth season and its first with Hampton conducting. Music of d’India, Victoria, and Hassler represent renewal as depicted at the start of high masses. More sacred text, enlivening aspects of the Christian faith, as so much 16th Century music does, is brought to our ears through polyphony by Porta and Morales. Additional biblical allegory, particularly of the ascension, is brought to life through compositions by Praetorius, Isaac, Handl-Gallus, and Tye, spanning the major European countries contributing to the canon of Renaissance masterpieces.
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<tr> <td>In principio creavit Deus</td><td>Sigismondo d'India</td></tr>
<tr> <td>Asperges me</td> <td>Gregorian chant</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Vidi aquam</td> <td>Tomás Luis de Victoria</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Missa secunda - Kyrie</td> <td>Hans Leo Hassler</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>O sacrum convivium</td><td>Cristóbal de Morales</td></tr>
<tr> <td>O sacrum convivium</td><td>Tomás Luis de Victoria</td></tr>
<tr> <td>O sacrum convivium</td> <td>Costanzo Porta</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>The Lord ascendeth up on high</td> <td>Michael Praetorius</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Ascendit Deus</td><td>Gregorian chant</td></tr>
<tr> <td>Ascendit Deus</td><td>Christoph Dalitz</td></tr>
<tr> <td>Alleluia Dominus in Sina</td> <td>Heinrich Isaac</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Missa Ascendens Christus - Sanctus/Benedictus</td> <td>Tomás Luis de Victoria</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Ascendens Christus</td><td>Jacob Handl Gallus</td></tr>
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I’m thrilled to lead Tactus into a new era as we enter our fourth season! As a veteran educator and Early Music practitioner, it brings me great pleasure to be at the helm of this evolving ensemble at an exciting time of development. We are strengthening our internal organizational structure, public presence, and artistic pursuits. While we look to historically informed performance practices, we will continue sharing our music in accessible and inventive ways. The singers and audience will experience new venues and repertoire, from Medieval chant echoing through the clerestory of cathedrals to early-Baroque polyphony streaming throughout the digital stratosphere. We look forward to new recordings and global travels to carry on the legacy of centuries-old artistry. As we work to refine our technique, we enter the fall with music for renewal. As we continue to reach for ever-higher levels of excellence, we delve into the winter with music for strengthening the soul. As we come into the warmth of the summer, we sing music for the passionate heart. This is an ambitious ensemble of skilled, dedicated, classical musicians, friends, and family. This is Tactus.
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