Join the performance of

Vivaldi’sGLORIA

in the Rome Festival Concert led by

eric Dale Knapp

New.Year’s.2012DeC 26, 2011–Jan 3, 2012

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VIValDI’s GLORIAwith.Eric.Dale.Knapp

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Dear.Music.Colleague,

Please.join.me.in.one.of.the.world’s.most.fabulous.cities….Rome ..The.rich.heritage.of.Italy.found.in.Rome.is.one.of.the.most.significant.in.all.of.the.Western.World ..Experiencing.the.history,.architecture,.cuisine,.culture.and.the.personality.of.one.of.Italy’s.greatest.cities.will.be.a.tour.de.force .

The.incomparable.Vivaldi.Gloria.will.be.the.centerpiece.of.our.Festival ..I.would.be.honored.if.you.would.join.me.in.the.crafting.of.this.piece.in.Rome ..It.is.difficult.to.imagine.a.better.way.to.celebrate.the.New.Year.than.with.a.great.masterwork.in.a.world..city.of.such.culture.and.sophistication .

Join.me.in.Rome.as.we.ring.in.the.2012.New.Year .

Eric.Dale.Knapp

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erIC Dale KnaPPEric Dale Knapp is a dynamic conductor whose commitment and energy empower the musicians he leads to give performances that stir the souls of his audiences. Maestro Knapp’s mastery of the repertoire spans the full spectrum, from fresh, authentic interpretations of traditional works to visionary performances of multimedia works of the new millennium. A versatile musical leader, equally adept with Classics and Pops, Knapp’s finely honed

ability to communicate through both gesture and speech place him at the forefront of the rising conductors of his generation.

In 2001 Mr. Knapp’s Carnegie Hall debut met with critical acclaim. International appearances have included being the first American to perform a series of organ recitals at the International Bach Festival in Warsaw, Poland; being guest conductor for the International Advent Sing in Vienna, Austria; conducting the Vratsa Philharmonie of Bulgaria in the Bulgarian premiere of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite; and serving as guest conductor with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie and Kromeriz Chamber Orchestra in the Czech Republic, and the Basel Academic Orchestra in Switzerland. His successful concerts in such distinctive concert environments as Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, Shanghai’s Oriental Art Center, The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Dvorak Hall and Vienna’s famed Musikverein have given him a special place within the international musical community.

Knapp’s wealth of experience spans the breadth of the musical world, having served as Music Director and Sr. Organist at Faith Lutheran Church in Des Moines, IA and as Conductor-in-Residence at MidAmerica Productions, where he conducted the New England Symphonic Ensemble and Festival Chorus annually at Carnegie Hall. He has enjoyed success as a Music Educator at elementary, secondary and collegiate levels, and as a conductor of community and professional choral and orchestral organizations. Mr. Knapp is a graduate of Drake University where he was appointed a Drake Fellow in conducting and has studied at The Juilliard School. He has pursued professional study with such luminaries as Jorge Mester, John Alexander, Helmuth Rilling, Aimee Beckmann-Collier, Vincent LaSelva, Kirk Trevor, Tsung Yeh, Gary Fagan, and Johannes Schlaefli. Carnegie Hall has recognized Mr. Knapp as one of the “rising generation of choral and orchestral leaders,” inviting him to take part in their annual Professional Conductors’ workshops with Robert Shaw.

Most recently Mr. Knapp conducted the triumphal closing concert of the Perform in Harmony with Olympic Spirit Festival celebrating the 2008 Beijing Olympics which featured 600 singers with the KI North American Festival Chorus, the Youth Chorus of the Tianjin Conservatory and the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra on July 3, 2008.

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GLORIA

aboUT THe GLORIAAntonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)Gloria in D RV589 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi composed this Gloria in Venice, probably in 1715, for the choir of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage for girls (or more probably a home, generously endowed by the girls’ “anonymous” fathers, for the illegitimate daughters of Venetian noblemen and their mistresses). The Ospedale prided itself on the quality of its musical education and the excellence of its choir and orchestra. Vivaldi, a priest, music teacher and virtuoso violinist, composed many sacred works for the Ospedale, where he spent most of his career, as well as hundreds of instrumental concertos to be played by the girls’ orchestra. This, his most famous choral piece, presents the traditional Gloria from the Latin Mass in twelve varied cantata-like sections.

The wonderfully sunny nature of the Gloria, with its distinctive melodies and rhythms, is characteristic of all of Vivaldi’s music, giving it an immediate and universal appeal. The opening movement is a joyous chorus, with trumpet and oboe obligato. The extensive orchestral introduction establishes two simple motives, one of octave leaps, the orher a quicker, quaver - semiquaver figure, that function as the ritornello. The choir enters in chorale-like fashion, syllabically declaiming the text in regular rhythms, contrasting with the orchestral ritornello, which contains most of the melodic interest of the movement.

The B minor Et in terra pax is in nearly every way a contrast to the first. It is in triple rather than duple time, in a minor key, and rather slower. Its imitative and expressive chromatic texture evokes the motets of the Renaissance era, the so-called “stile antico”. Laudamus te, a passionate duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano, gives us some hint of the skill of Vivaldi’s young singers.

Gratias agimus tibi is a very broad and entirely homophonic prelude to a fugal allegro on propter magnam gloriam. The Largo Domine Deus, Rex coelestis is in the form of duet between the solo soprano and the solo violin, followed by the joyful F major Domine Fili unigenite chorus in what Vivaldi and his contemporaries would have regarded as the ‘French style’. It is dominated by the dotted rhythms characteristic of a French overture. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei features the alto soloist, with the chorus providing an antiphonal response, qui tollis peccata mundi, to each intercession. The bold harmonies of the following section, Qui tollis, provide a refreshing change of tone colour, and complement the intercessional alto aria, Qui sedes ad dextera Patris. The string accompaniment contains recollections of the opening movement, and prepares for the following movement, Quoniam tu solus sanctus, which takes the shape of a brief reprise of the opening movement’s broken octaves.

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The powerful stile antico double fugue on Cum Sancto Spiritu that ends the work is an arrangement by Vivaldi of the ending of a Gloria per due chori composed in 1708 by an older contemporary, the now forgotten Veronese composer Giovanni Maria Ruggieri, whom Vivaldi seems to have held in high esteem, as he used a second adaptation of this piece in another, lesser-known D Major Gloria setting, RV 588.

Today Vivaldi is one of the most popular of all composers, who during his lifetime enjoyed considerable success and fortune, which he squandered through extravagance, and when he died in Vienna he was buried in a pauper’s grave. For two centuries after his death, the Gloria lay undiscovered until the late 1920s, when it was found buried among a pile of forgotten Vivaldi manuscripts. However, it was not performed until September 1939 in Siena in an edition by the composer Alfredo Casella. This was by no means an authentic edition (he described it as an “elaborazione”), as he embellished the original orchestration of trumpet, oboe, strings, and continuo, while reducing the role of the continuo, and cut sections from three movements. It was not until 1957 that the now familiar original version was published and given its first performance at the First Festival of Baroque Choral Music at Brooklyn College, NY.

Peter Carey Royal Free Singers

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GLORIA IN D RV 589Gloria in excelsis Deo (Chorus) Et in terra pax (Chorus) Laudamus te (Sopranos I and II) Gratias agimus tibi (Chorus) Propter magnam gloriam (Chorus) Domine Deus (Soprano) Domine, Fili unigenite (Chorus) Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (Contralto and Chorus) Qui tollis peccata mundi (Chorus) Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Contralto) Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Chorus) Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)

fesTIVal eDITIonAntonio Vivaldi/ed. Martens -- Gloria WALTON MUSIC CORP.

Vivaldi’s masterwork for solo voices, mixed chorus and keyboard reduction. This Walton edition includes extensive editorial notes on score revisions and Baroque performance practice. Orchestral parts are available on rental from the publisher.

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DesTInaTIon

Florence

Rome

Lucca

Italy.is.the.cradle.of.so.much..magnificent.music.and.culture ..Everybody.deserves.a.chance.to.sing.there.at.least.once .

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DeC 2011–Jan 2012Monday, Dec 26 Depart

Tuesday, Dec 27 Arrive in Rome Transfer to Montecatini

Wednesday, Dec 28 Festival rehearsal Tour Lucca Individual concerts

Thursday, Dec 29 Tour Florence Continue on to Rome

Friday, Dec 30 Sightseeing in Rome Festival rehearsal

Saturday, Dec 31 Sightseeing Individual concerts (optional) Enjoy New Year’s Eve

Sunday, Jan 1 Dress rehearsal Festival Concert

Monday, Jan 2 Vatican sightseeing St Peter’s Mass (tbd) Farewell Dinner

Tuesday, Jan 3 Depart for home

HIgHlIgHTs

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DeC 2011–Jan 2012

Monday, December 26• Depart

Tuesday, December 27• Arrive in Rome

• Meet KIconcerts tour manager

• Continue to Montecatini

• Check in

• Dinner (daily)

• Overnight Montecatini

Wednesday, December 28• Breakfast (daily)

• Festival Rehearsal

• Travel to Lucca surrounded by massively thick 16th-century walls, featuring some of Italy’s finest medieval and Renaissance architecture, superb dining, antique markets, classical and rock music festivals

• Individual concerts (optional)

• Dinner

• Overnight Montecatini

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Thursday, December 29• Travel to Florence. Florence is a city in which Italian

artistic and intellectual genius flourished. Dante, poet and historian, painter, architect and sculptor found the city to be an ideal forum for their intellectual and artistic development. Upon arrival we have a guided tour of Florence. Visit the Piazza Del Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria and Accademia

• Continue to Rome

• Check in

• Dinner

• Overnight Rome

friday, December 30• Guided walking tour of Ancient Rome. See the Capitoline

Hill, Citadel of ancient Rome, the Tarpeian Rock, the Roman Forum, and the Colosseum

• Festival Rehearsal

• Dinner

• Overnight Rome

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saturday, December 31• Guided walking tour of the historical centre of Rome

including Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona and Piazza Campo de’ Fiori

• Optional individual concert for instance at St Agnese in Agone (tbd)

• Dinner

• Celebrate New Year’s Eve

• Overnight Rome

sunday, January 1• Free morning

• Dress rehearsal

• Festival Concert

• Dinner

• Overnight Rome

Monday, January 2• Today we have a guided tour of the Vatican Museums,

including the Sistine Chapel, with its breathtaking frescos by Michelangelo, and the Raphael Rooms, which established Raphael’s reputation in Rome

• See St. Peter’s Square and Basilica, the largest part of Vatican City

• Sing Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica (tbd)

• Farewell dinner

• Overnight Rome

Tuesday, January 3• Transfer to airport and travel back home

**Itinerary subject to change.

**Confirmation of performances is dependent upon early receipt of performance information: biographies, pictures, recordings and repertoire.

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erIC Dale KnaPPArtistic Advisor

Eric Dale Knapp brings a diverse and unique background to KI. He has enjoyed success in Music Education at all levels, Church Music, and with professional choral and orchestral organizations. He has conducted at distinctive concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Shanghai’s Oriental Art Centre, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Dvorak Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein. Mr. Knapp is Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Jersey Choral Society & Orchestra which he has led to critical acclaim both in the U.S. and abroad; Artistic Director and Conductor of the Connecticut Choral Society & Orchestra; Music Director for the Mark Thallander Foundation; founder and Music Director of Orchestra de Camerata and Artistic Director of Chamber Music at the Salisbury House Iowa. He is Principal Conductor of the American Festival Symphony at Carnegie Hall and Artistic Advisor to KIconcerts for choral and orchestral programming. For 13 years he served as Music Director and Senior Organist at Faith Lutheran Church in Des Moines, IA. Mr. Knapp is based in New York City and is represented by Wade Artist Management.

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