2023-24 Season
Bach: Wachet Auf!
Saturday, December 16, 3pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue
Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem á 6, M. Praetorius
Es ist ein Roess entsprungen, M. Praetorius
O Jesulein süß, arr. J. S. Bach
Wachet auf! Ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, J. S. Bach
Quem Pastores Laudavere, German, 14th Century
Schütz: Requiem
TBD
Musikalische Exequien (1635), Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz’s collection of 6, 7, and 8-part choral works constitutes the first German-language requiem, and a major influence on Brahms as he created his 19th-century German Requiem.
2022-23 Season
La Noce Buena: Christmas Music of the Spanish New World
In collaboration with the Historic New Orleans Collection and St. Louis Cathedral.
Thursday, December 15, 6pm, St. Louis Cathedral.
Puer natus es nobis, Gregorian chant, mode VII
Españoleta No. 3, Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710), played by Mahmoud Chouki
Oy es dia de placer, Tomás Pascual (1595-1635) , arr. Paul Weber
Serenissima Una Noche, Fray Jeronimo Gonzalez de Mendoza (fl. 1633-1661)
Creator alme siderum, Gregorian chant, mode IV, Vespers hymn for Sundays of Advent with Polyphonic verses by José de Agurto y Loaysa (c.1630-1695)
Victoria, Victoria, Tomás Pascual
Sancta Maria, e yn ilhuicac, Attributed to Hernando Franco (1532-1585)
Dios itlaçonantzine, Attributed to Hernando Franco
Magnificat in G, Esteban Salas (Cuba 1725-1803)
Canario, Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710), played by Mahmoud Chouki
Hanacpachac cussisuininen, anonymous, compiled by Juan Pérez Bocanegra (d. 1645)
Si tanta gloria se da, Tomás Pascual
A la xacara xacarilla, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, (c. 1590-1664)
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
Friday, March 3, 7pm, Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Avenue
O Salutaris Hostia, Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Membra Jesu Nostri, Dieterich Buxthude (1637-1707)
Ad Pedes-Ad Genua-Ad Manus-Ad Latus-Ad Pectus-Ad Cor-Ad Faciem
Caldara and Mozart
May 19, 7pm, Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Avenue
Factus est repente, Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591)
Sonata No. 5 in E minor, C 142, Heinrich Franz Ignaz von Biber (1644-1704)
Medea in Corinto, Antonio Caldara (c.1671-1736)
Cantata for alto, 2 violins & basso continuo – Claire Shackelton, mezzo-soprano
Mass in B-flat, K. 275, W. A. Mozart
2021
KREWE DE VOIX RETURNS!
Vivaldi’s Gloria
For the first time in 2 years Krewe de Voix returns with a holiday program featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s famous Gloria in D Major.
Saturday, December 4, 7pm – Trinity Episcopal Church – donations accepted at the door.
2019-2020 Season
Tucker Fuller’s A Midsummer Nights Dream
With Marigny Opera Ballet and New Resonance Orchestra
October 4-6, Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand
Contact Marigny Opera House for tickets.
Christmas Concert: Victoria’s Missa O Magnum Mysterium
Friday, December 6, 7pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue
Saturday, December 21, 7pm, Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand
Personent hodie, Piae Cantiones (1582) – Christum wir sollen loben schon, Lucas Osiander (1534-1604) – In Dulci Jubilo, Michael & Hieronymus Praetorius
Crown the Altar, from Celebrate this Festival (1693), Henry Purcell
O Magnum Mysterium, Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa O Magnum Mysterium, Kyrie & Glorias, T. L. de Victoria
The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation (Harmonia Sacra), H. Purcell
Missa O Magnum Mysterium, Credo, T. L. de Victoria
Evening Hymn, H. Purcell
Missa O Magnum Mysterium, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus dei, T. L. de Victoria
Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem á 6, M. Praetorius
CANCELLED – Bach’s First Cantatas: Der Herr denket an uns and Nach Dir, Herr, verlanget mich
Friday, April 3, 7pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue
2018-2019 Season
A Tudor Christmas: Carols and Motets of the English Renaissance
Friday, December 7, 7pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue
Saturday, December 8, 7pm, Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand
Gloria in excelsis Deo, Thomas Weelkes
Audivi vocem de caelo, John Taverner
O nata lux, Thomas Tallis
This Day Christ Was Born, William Byrd
Lulla Lullaby, William Byrd
Swete Was the Song the Virgin Sung, English traditional
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night, Christopher Tye
Christe redemptor omnium, John Sheppard
The Old Yeare Now Away Is Fled, English traditional
O beatum et sacrosanctum diem, Peter Philips
Book of Saints – March 21-24 – Marigny Opera House
Krewe de Voix joins the Marigny Opera Ballet and New Resonance Chamber Orchestra in a revival of the two-time Gambit Award-winning, full-length ballet inspired by the lives of three saints: Teresa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, and Sebastian Martyr. For ticket information, contact the Marigny Opera House.
Dieterich Buxtehude’s MEMBRA JESU NOSTRI (1680)
Friday, April 5, 7pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue
Krewe de Voix presents the rarely-heard cycle of 7 cantatas for 5-voice choir, soloists and strings. With text by the medieval monastic and mystic, Bernard of Clairvaux, each cantata explores the wounds of Christ’s passion with surprising imagery buttressed by the sensual poetry of the Song of Solomon from the Old Testament. One of the great sacred works before J. S. Bach, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri foreshadows the monumental oratorios of the 18th century.
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
Sunday, April 14, 5pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue
A production of Opus Opera, Pergolesi’s 1736 masterpiece will be sung by Irini Kyriakidou and Christina Vial, sopranos, Claire Shackelton, mezzo-soprano and the women of Krewe de Voix. The concert will take place as part of the Trinity Artist Series.
2017-2018 Season
Book of Saints – October 6-8 – Marigny Opera House
Krewe de Voix joins the Marigny Opera Ballet and New Resonance Chamber Orchestra, Francis Scully, conductor, in a new full-length ballet inspired by the lives of three saints: Teresa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, and Sebastian Martyr. For ticket information, contact the Marigny Opera House.
Krewe de Voix Christmas Concert
Friday, December 8, 7:30pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans
Sunday, December 17, 5pm, Christ Episcopal Church, 129 N New Hampshire St, Covington, LA
Wednesday, January 10, 8pm, St. Mary’s Assumption Church, 923 Josephine St., New Orleans. Sung as part of the winter sacred music conference of the Church Music Association of America.
Join Krewe de Voix for our annual Christmas concert featuring traditional carols, Monteverdi madrigals turned into sacred motets, and excepts from the Ursuline Manuscript, which was given to the New Orleans Ursuline nuns in 1754. Admission is free. Donations will be happily accepted.
PROGRAM
Parvulus Nobis Nasciture, Michael Praetorius
Es ist ein Roess entsprungen, Michael Praetorius
Quem Pastores Laudavere, German, 14th Century
Sancta Maria, Claudio Monteverdi
O Stellae Corustantes, C. Monteverdi
O Jesu Mea Vita, C. Monteverdi
Rutilante in Nocte, C. Monteverdi
Christmas Cantata from volume 1 of the Ursuline Manuscript
Ein Kind gebor’n zu Bethlehem, M. Praetorius
New Orleans 300th Birthday Celebration Concert
Monday, May 21, 7pm, Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand Street, New Orleans
Friday, May 25, 7pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans
Krewe de Voix will present a program of French Baroque music as it may have been heard in New Orleans in the first decades after its founding. Featured will be excepts from the Ursuline Manuscript, which was copied in 1736 in France and given to the New Orleans Ursuline nuns in 1754. Also featured will be Andre Campra’s Missa Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam and the rarely heard chants from Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers’ Graduale Romanum of 1687.
PROGRAM
Virtues and Vices – Excerpts from the Ursuline Manuscript
Introit, Missale Romanum, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
Kyrie & Gloria, from Missa Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Andre Campra
Gradual & Alleluia, Missale Romanum, G-G. Nivers
Virtues and Vices – Excerpts from the Ursuline Manuscript
Offertory & Communion, Missale Romanum, G-G. Nivers
Sanctus & Agnus Dei, from Missa Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, A. Campra
2016-2017 Season
Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories
The music for Holy Week begins with royal triumph and quickly descends into bitter betrayal, torture, abandonment, and death. The Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) set the complete liturgical texts for Holy Week, creating one of the greatest collection of dramatic, heart-wrenching works for the week leading up to Easter.
Saturday, April 1, 1:30pm, St. Mary’s Assumption Church, Josephine Street, New Orleans
Thursday, April 6, 6pm, St. Mary’s Church, Old Ursuline Convent, Chartres Street, New Orleans
Friday, April 7, 7:30pm, Immaculate Conception (Jesuit) Church, Baronne Street, New Orleans
PROGRAM
The Lamb, John Tavener (1944-2013)
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Thursday, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Arise, My Tend’rest Thoughts, early American hymn
Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday, T. L. de Victoria
Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna, Tarquino Merula (1594/5-1665)
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday, T. L. de Victoria
Popule Meus, Paul Weber (2015)
CHRISTMAS WITH PALESTRINA AND PRAETORIUS
Tuesday, December 6, 7:30pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans
Saturday, December 10, 2pm, St. Patrick’s Church, 724 Camp Street, New Orleans
Palestrina’s rarely heard 5-voice Missa O Magnum Mysterium will be sung along with German Christmas carols from the great Hamburg master, Michael Praetorius.
PROGRAM
Parvulus Nobis Nascitur, M. Praetorius (Musae Sioniae VI 1609) – Es ist ein Roess entsprungen, M. Praetorius (Musae Sioniae VI) – In Dulci Jubilo, M. Praetorius (Musae Sioniae V) & Hieronymous Praetorius
Kyrie & Gloria, Missa O Magnum Mysterium, G. P. da Palestrina
Rorate Caeli, Heinrich Schütz (Kleine Geistliche Konzerte II 1639) – Verbum Caro Factum Est, H. Schütz (Kleine Geistliche Konzerte I) – Hodie Christus Natus Est, Schütz (Kleine Geistliche Konzerte II)
Quem Pastores Laudavere, German 14th Century
Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei, Missa O Magnum Mysterium, G. P. da Palestrina
Puer Natus in Bethlehem, M. Praetorius