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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Tapestry voices with piano

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• Samuel Barber • Béla Bartók • Lily Boulanger • 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!

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 Occitan folk songs that inspired Joseph Canteloube’s Chants D’Auvergne, paired with works of Gabriel Faure, Caesar Frank, Cecile Chaminade, French folk songs, dance tunes, Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf and more!

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

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• Chants d'Auvergne Joseph Canteloube • J’ai deux amours Vincent Scotto • Chant de la Creuse and Les Danses de Lormont • César Franck: Un Grand Amour Marguerite Monnot and Edith Piaf • Après un Reve and Les Berceaux Gabriel Fauré • Folk songs, dance tunes and much, much more!

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)

This spirited program crisscrosses borders and centuries to tell tales of remarkable women. Tapestry weaves a mix of tales, music, and poetry to reveal the many faces of a woman, ranging from 12th-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen to Queen Ann Boleyn, to Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Music of female troubadours, traditional songs, and lullabies round out this fascinating portrait of a woman.

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Tapestry voices with vielle and rebec or harp

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• 12th-century composer, writer and visionary Hildegard von Bingen • 16th-century writer, composer and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz • 16th-century Queen Anne Boleyn • 20th-century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova • Medieval chant and polyphony • Traditional songs • New works by Emily Lau and Patricia Van Ness