Cal Performances presents Tallis Scholars
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704-2201 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, April 27, 2023

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[7:35 PM] {performers out}

1. [7:36 PM] Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625): O clap your hands
2. [7:42 PM] Thomas Tallis (1505–1585): Suscipe quaeso (ca. 1554)
3. [7:52 PM] Nico Muhly (b. 1981): Rough Notes (2018; West Coast Premiere)
4. [8:03 PM] William Byrd (ca. 1540–1623): Tribue domine (1575)
   [8:15 PM] {set ends}

[8:35 PM] {lights down, performers out}

1. [8:36 PM] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525–1594): Te e Petrus (1572)
2. [8:43 PM] John Rutter (b. 1945): Hymn to the Creator of Light (1993)
   [8:50 PM] {drop two of the female singers}
3. [8:51 PM] Nicolas Gombert (1495–1560): Lubegat David Absalon
   [9:00 PM] {drop one of the two remaining female singers and one of the two male bass singers}
4. [9:01 PM] Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450–1521): Alsalon, fili mi (ca. 1513)
   [9:05 PM] {back to the full choir}
5. [9:06 PM] Arvo Pärt (b.1935): Which was the Son of… (2000)
   [9:13 PM] {set ends; all off, but back quickly}
   
   Encore
   [9:15 PM] {PP announces the encore}
6. [9:16 PM] Pärt: Bogoróditse Djévo (Church Slavonic version of Ave Maria) (1990)
   [9:18 PM] {show ends}

Tallis Scholars

• Tom Castle: tenor vox;
• Steven Harrold: tenor vox;
• Amy Haworth: soprano vox;
• Piers Kennedy: bass vox;
• Rebecca Lea: soprano vox;
• Victoria Meteyard: soprano vox;
• Elisabeth Paul: alto vox;
• Peter Phillips: director;
• Caroline Trevor: alto vox;
• Emma Walshe: soprano vox;
• Tim Scott Whiteley: bass vox. ## Notes

It was a real treat to hear the exquisite singing of the Tallis Scholars tonight. Hard to imagine that Phillips has been at it for fifty years.

Except for Phillips' announcement of the encore piece, not a word was spared for the crowd. The unsaid message must have been, “Just listen!”

Program Notes or program notes

Michael Zwiebach posted a review of the show with SFCV.

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