Chamber Recital with Sarah Stone and Keith Reas

7:30 PM Thursday, May 9, 2024

 

Montana Early Music Festival favorite artists Sarah Stone and Keith Reas kick off Musikanten Montana’s 20th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, May 9th , with a 7:30 pm cello and organ concert at St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral.  In a joint recital, they will offer Italian and German music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, opening with Sarah playing one of J.S. Bach’s stunning solo cello suites.  Other composers include the first of the influential Venetian school of composers Andrea Gabrieli, and the important Anglo-Italian Jewish musician Jacobo Cervetto, who “brought the generous and manly tones of the violoncello into high favor “ when he moved from Verona to England in 1738.  The survey of Italian Baroque composers would not be complete without a selection from Antonio Vivaldi.  This program was a featured offering last year on the  Third Thursday Concerts with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester NY. 

 

St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral

511 N. Park, Helena, MT  

 

Suggested donation at the door $25  and $10 for students.

Open seating, come early to sit close!

 

 

Musikanten Montana's 20th Anniversary Concert

with Maestra Kerry Krebill, Marjorie Bunday, Carrie Krause, and friends

7:30 PM Saturday, May 11, 2024

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Musikanten Montana is celebrating its 20th Season of performing in Montana with a grand finale concert at St. Mary Catholic Community at 7:30 pm on Saturday evening May 11.  This performance will spotlight 400 years of choral masterworks, featuring both some of the a cappella American repertoire Artistic Director Kerry Krebill has championed for 45 seasons of performances in the Washington DC area, and the Baroque-and-before choral masterworks she introduced to the Treasure State with the ensemble’s annual touring Montana Early Music Festival, the state’s only period instruments production of choral-orchestral ‘music before 1800’.

 

Musikanten is German for ‘musicians,’ and the Anniversary Concert will open with the choral pronouncement by Hugo Distler that “when every living thing has passed away, music will remain, because the angels in Heaven themselves are Musikanten.”  With the participation of favorite violinist Carrie Krause and friends, Musikanten will present Baroque  works by Monteverdi and Buxtehude, as well as a cappella music by Johannes Brahms, Elliott Carter, Washington School composer Russell Woollen, and Aaron Copland’s bravura composition for mezzo-soprano and chorus “In the Beginning.”   Beloved guest artist Marjorie Bunday solos in Copland’s 1947 setting of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis.   

 
St. Mary Catholic Community

1700 Missoula Avenue, Helena, MT

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General admission:

Suggested donation at the door $35 and Students $10

Reserved seating for Musikanten Montana annual Angel Donors above $100  

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Musikanten Montana at St. Peter's Episcopal Cathedral

10:15 AM Sunday, May 12, 2024

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Musikanten Montana’s 20th Anniversary Celebration concludes with the 10:15 am Mass at St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral on Sunday, May 12th.  Organist Keith Reas will play for the service, and the Musikanten chorus will lead the liturgical music, offering John Ireland’s anthem “Greater Love Hath No Man than This” at the offertory. Organ music will include works by Merula, Frescobaldi, César Franck, John Stanley, David Cherwien and J.S. Bach.  Friends are encouraged to join Musikanten at this worship service. A reception follows in the cathedral undercroft. 

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PRELUDE:        Voluntary in F -   John Stanley

                           Now the green blade riseth - David Cherwien

OFFERTORY;    Capriccio - Tarquinio Merula

COMMUNION:  Toccata for the Elevation - Girolamo Frescobaldi

                           Prière - César Franck

POSTLUDE:       Prelude in G - J. S. Bach

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St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral

511 N. Park, Helena, MT  

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This event is free and open to the public