Rehearsal Announcements:

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

• New music:
  • Costanzo Festa: Super Flumina Babylonis
  • Thomas Tallis: If ye love me
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus
  • William Leighton: O Had I Wings Like to a Dove
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

• No rehearsal; Louise is taking a night off.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

• New music:
  • a collection of shape-note songs
  • Matthw Locke: Ne'er trouble thyself
  • Robert Ramsey: When David heard that Absalon was slain
• We're looking at Wednesday, May 28 as a possible dinner out together (instead of rehearsal).
• Wednesday, June 18 may be our last rehearsal for the spring.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

• No rehearsal; Louise is taking a night off.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

• New music:
  • Henry Purcell: I was glad
  • a collection of shape-note songs
  • William Billings: Easter Anthem
  • Thomas Attwood: I was glad

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

• New music:
  • J.S. Bach: God's Time is the Best (Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste Zeit)
  • Carl Heinrich Graun: The Passion of our Lord (Der Tod Jesu)

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

• New music:
  • George Frideric Handel: Johannes-Passion
  • Franz Schubert: Stabat Mater

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

• New music:
  • Thomas Weelkes: Evening Service 'For Trebles'
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang (Sanft wie do Lebtest) (Elegy)
  • J Paul Williams/Lloyd Larson: Ain't No Rock Gonna' Shout for Me
  • miscellaneous from the "Blue Book"

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

• New music:
  • William Byrd: Mass for 3 voices
  • William Byrd: Mass for 4 voices

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

• New music:
  • Anon: Dindirín, dindirín
  • Clément Jannequin: La Guerre (La Batille de Marignan: Part 2)
  • John Dowland: Weep you no more, sad fountains
  • Francis Pilkington: Rest, sweet nymphs

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

• New music: J.S. Bach: Magnificat

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

• No rehearsal: snow.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

• Louise Lee, Norma Meyer, Hellen Gelband, and Karen Lee sang at a memorial service for Carol Pierstorff at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg, VA. Former Ad-Hoc member Allyn Beauchamp was also there.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

• We received word that former Ad-Hoc member Carol Pierstorff passed away at her home in Falls Church on January 5.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

• No rehearsal; Louise Lee is ill.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

• Welcome Back!
• New music:
  • Hans Leo Hassler: Psalm 66 (Jubilate Deo)
  • Peter Phillips: Hodie nobis de coelo
  • Adrian Batten: Hear My Prayer
  • George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 4 (Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened)
  • George Atkins (tune attr. William More): Holy Manna (Brethren, We Have Met to Worship)