Renaissance Chorus Association

Dear Music Lovers, and Students of History and Opera.

PERFORMANCE will be Saturday June 28, at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 164 West 100 St, Manhattan at 7pm.

Artists are led by Director Richard Porterfield.

RenChorNY has a history of Monteverdi Orfeo (1607) workshops (3) since 2005.

We are honored to, with noted Specialists, take this now, to the wider public.

Offering Instrumentalists and Soloists with a 20 +voice chorus.

In complete Five Act Performance, you will hear the First GREAT Opera.

This story of LOVE seeking to overcome death, from the Plato telling via Striggio's text, is set to Monteverdi's sublime music will be recreated by the voices of RenChorNY commenting on Orpheus and Euridice, their wedding joy, while the principals describe their horror at the death of the bride, encourage- or block- Orpheus in his quest to overcome fate, and then accede, as the Gods allow, to it.

Here an Orpheus is berating/pleading with the fates to allow his cause:

https://youtu.be/ERUAswhZWRY?si=ojY1jtzM7xYmKGoo

Your attendance will help Fire victims.

We will offer Donations from admissions be sent to this official Los Angeles Government site.

[This is their intended: Portal:

https://multipayweb.link2gov.com/LACountyDonations.]

PLEASE BE GENEROUS AND SHARE WIDELY. So, we will have a good audience and show LA that NYC cares!

This entailed renting rehearsal and Concert venues; advertising and publicity are expensive!

PLEASE COME and also DONATE here.

[-You can also make a difference by donating today to Renaissance Chorus Association. EIN:90-0435271. via the PayPal Giving Fund at:

https://www.renaissancechorus.org/index.html

If you wish to help us sponsor a guest Artist, for a donation of $100 or more we will be happy to reserve 2 seats for you, and list you, if you like, in our program. Please indicate!

this is a Community Effort!

Please share this with all your good friends and follow updates.

Thank you for consideration.

Sigmund Rosen, president

Renaissance Chorus Association.

We again Thank you, the constant SUPPORTERS and ATTENDEES of our last 3 post-covid Events. This enables us to hire hard-working young professionals to create moving experiences of the great Sacred Traditions.

The Renaissance Chorus Association is honored this year to join with the venerable New York Early Music Celebration in our efforts:

You can make a difference by donating soon to Renaissance Chorus Association. Can you help support the venerable source of Rare Sacred Masterwork performances which began in New York in 1954? We were incorporated as a 501 c 3 charity in 1960.

UPCOMING:

RICHARD PORTERFIELD will conduct our 20 voice a cappella Choir

RenChorNY Bronx Concert: October 20, 2024-5pm

St Clare Of Assisi Catholic Church, 1027 Rhinelander Ave Bronx NY 10462

(PROGRAM AS BELOW

RenChorNY Manhattan Concert: October 26-5pm

Richard Porterfield, PhD, will again direct.

On Saturday, October 26, we revisit works* from last season's three great Hapsburg Composers Series, including works by Heinrich Finck, Heinrich Isaac, Thomas Stoltzer, and Ludwig Senfl. This will again be for the New York Early Music Celebration at the Shrine of St. Francis Cabrini, 701 Fort Washington Avenue in Manhattan.

*Hymn: A Solis ortus cardine/ Domus Pudici by Finck

Marian Motet: Ave rosa sine spinis by Senfl,

Two trios, SAB, TTB, from Psalm 37 by Stoltzer,

Tenor lied: 'Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen',

Kyrie and Gloria of Missa 'Carminum'[songs] by Isaac,

Biblical Poem from "Song of Songs": Tota Pulchra Es by Isaac

Marian Motet: Ave Maria...Virgo serena by Josquin,

Marian 6 voice embellishment of above: Ave Maria, Gratia Plena by Senfl.

In June, 2025, we return to a complete performance with instruments, soloists, chorus, and also with dance of Monteverdi's Orfeo. Inquiries for auditions welcome. Details in January, after our grant requests are finalized.

We deeply treasure your generous past support, and especially attendance, and personal visits with singers at the receptions! You are a constant support!

Like all such Cultural Organizations we depend upon Music Lovers bringing friends and family to savor the incredible glories of the mind-opening RENAISSANCE. This can be a key to future inspired personal development. This is why all our Concerts offer free admission to students. As our repertoire typically has inspired 500 years of marvel, to deny this to the young in the midst of the chaos of the time is deeply irresponsible.

Your donations will be used to supplement our avocational choir of 20 with skilled professionals, and also allow a percentage of the Donations at the door return to the Shrine for its refugee work.

To be notified of all events, or comment on our work, please email us

via GoFundMe

The website, which also has a PayPal link, is https://www.renaissancechorus.org/index.html

Thank you for reading!

Sig Rosen, President

I'm Sig Rosen of Renaissance Chorus, formed at the High School of Music and Art in 1954 and Incorporated as Charity in 1960.

We deal in the miracle of creating great music- and surviving as a community of singers in a sadly crass age. Our Composers were the greatest in their era.

We don't have the benefit of large grants or professional fundraisers, just loyal and discerning listeners.

We are honored to share a portion of admission with our host churches and are fortunate to offer artists the paid opportunity to share their talent and leadership to our mainly volunteer chorus, many who are experienced retired professionals.

Our Conductor Richard Porterfield Leads in Churches and Colleges and inspires committed

singing. I welcome Donors to access our Concerts online to hear what we do.

We of course must print rare music, programs and posters and engage a variety of artists and rent insured rehearsal venues. Publicity and engagement are necessary.

YOUR DONATIONS CREATE GREAT ART AND KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY:

Everything we do encourages spiritual growth broadly conceived, even as we as a community are from all sectors.

We are RenChorNY.

See the details here of our Legacy and the 2024 Spring Concerts:

RenChorNY presents

Austro-Hungarian Court Composers

c.1480-1543.

Like her grandfather Maximilian I, who employed Isaac and Senfl, Mary Queen of Hungary brilliantly employed the Court composer Thomas Stoltzer to set Luther’s new 1524 Hebrew-German Psalm translations to pioneering 6/7vv. polyphony. Senfl arranged Josquin’s ‘Ave Maria’ to 6vv.

These and other of their Marian motets, Psalms in Latin and German and Lied are featured by RenChorNY, led by Richard Porterfield.

The Chamber Choir will be joined by viols in this presentation of

‘Austro-Hungarian Court Composers’

in Two New York City Events:

Sunday May 5, 2024, 4 pm

Hudson View Gardens Lounge

128 Pinehurst Avenue, Manhattan

Sunday May 12, 2024, 4 pm

Trinity Lutheran Church

164 W. 100th Street, Manhattan