Crisscrossing France from Auvergne to Provence, Brittany to Paris and beyond, Tapestry and friends bring together a rich blend of Impressionism, folk roots, and a touch of jazz. Along the way, they share works of Gabriel Faure, Reynaldo Hahn, Cecile Chaminade, French folk songs, dance tunes, Erik Satie, Edith Piaf and more!

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Cristi Catt, soprano, Daniela Tosic, mezzo-soprano, James Falzone, clarinet, Jeremiah McLane, accordion, Andrew VanNorstrand, guitar

Program Features

• Tourdion, 16th c. • J’ai deux amours Vincent Scotto • Les Danses de Lormont César Franck: Un Grand Amour Marguerite Monnot and Edith Piaf • Les Berceaux Gabriel Fauré: • Bailero, Chants d'Auvergne Joseph Canteloube • Folk songs, dance tunes and much, much more!

Pray Tell no Tales on Me brings together reimagined medieval and traditional songs about love, loss, discontent and revenge. We tell the tales of young love, unhappy wives, disappointed lovers, love triangles and revenge murders. In it, there is something for everybody!

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Tapestry voices with vielle and rebec or harp

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• Cantigas de amigo, 13th c. • Chansons de mal-mariée, 13th c. • Byrd one Brere, 14th c. • La bel se siet by Guillaume Du Fay • Traditional North Macedonian and Serbian songs • A murder ballad from Emma Dusenbury • Wake up little Sparrow by Ella Jenkins • Song of Myself by Peggy Seeger

Tapestry has a long history of championing women composers exploring women’s voices over the centuries. This program brings together old and new perspectives on women’s lives, hopes and dreams from medieval love songs, songs of rebellious nuns, and a troubadour song by Beatrice de Dia, to music of Pauline Viardot, Florence Price, Patricia Van Ness and more!

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Tapestry voices with vielle and rebec or harp

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• 13th. Bamberg Codex Motet • A chantar by Beatrice de Dia • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz • Madrid by Pauline Viardot • Sombrero by Cecile Chaminade • Gaúcho (Corta Jaca) by Chiquinha Gonzaga • Women’s Magazine Tango by Jocelyn Pook

Tapestry’s program brings the idea of a 15th-century wedding to life through music featuring works of Guillaume Du Fay and his contemporaries. Each wedding has its own share of political intrigue, travel, and most importantly music. The weddings were lavish affairs and music played a central role with dances, songs dedicated to the event, toasts and love songs. The funeral features Christine de Pizan's lament on the death of her husband, set to music by Gilles de Binchois.

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Tapestry voices with vielle, rebec and harp

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Music from the Cyprus Codex, Etienne de Meaux, Gilles Binchois, and Guillaume Du Fay

Tapestry takes their audience beyond the stars in this program originally designed for The Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles. The program opens with a solar eclipse and then takes flight weaving together 16th–century Spanish Villancicos with works of David Lang, Hildegard von Bingen, Alan Hovhanness, Claude Debussy, and Patricia Van Ness. Tapestry explores the cycles of the moon and stars, as well as human life from childhood to young love, and finally to the wisdom of age. Tapestry breathes life into the beautiful lyrics of this program in which "hearts rejoice," "souls tremble" and "a thousand stars fall and rise in concert."

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Tapestry's voices with clarinet and chimes

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• Notre Dame Chant and Polyphony (12–13th century) • Claude Debussy (1862–1918) • 16th century Villancicos • Patricia Van Ness (b.1951) • David Lang (b. 1957) • Alan Hovhannes (1911–2000) • Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)

From a mysterious garden to a salon in Paris, from concert halls and jazz clubs to the streets of Buenos Aires, Tapestry travels across borders and through time to bring together exquisite music for voices and piano. Weaving together 19th&21st century works through their own lens, Tapestry highlights composers who are ever present in our musical memory as well as others who were renowned in their day and then forgotten.

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Performers

Tapestry voices with piano

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• Samuel Barber • Béla Bartó • Federico Chueca • Rebecca Clark • Claude Debussy • Nathaniel Dett • Duke Ellington • Gabriel Fauré • Emily Lau • Jocelyn Pook • Florence Price • Eric Satie • Ralph Vaughan Williams • George Walker • and more!