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2022-2023 Performances
American Part Songs and Folk Songs
Saturday, December 10, 2022 • 7:30 p.m.
Kevin O’Brien, conductor
Hsiao-Ying Lin, collaborative piano
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Three Mexican Folk Songs – David Conte
Escape – Jessica French
Two Pieces on Speeches by John F. Kennedy – Mark Carlson
Innisfree – Gerald Custer
Frostiana – Randall Thompson
Shenandoah – Leo Nestor
UMBC Camerata Spring Concert
Saturday, May 13 2023• 7:30 p.m.
Kevin O’Brien, conductor
Hsiao-Ying Lin, collaborative piano
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Der Tanz, D.826 – Franz Schubert
The Storm (Der Sturm), Hob.XXIVa:8 – Joseph Haydn
Abendlied, op.92, no.3 – Johannes Brahms
Zigeunerleben, op.29 no.3 – Robert Schumann
Fern Hill – John Corigliano
Salmo 150 – Ernani Aguiar
Risseldy, Rosseldy – Maurice Saylor
2021-2022 Performances
Mostly Mozart
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 • 7:30 p.m.
Stephen Caracciolo, conductor
Hsiao-Ying Lin, pianist
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Prologue
Alles, was Odem hat, lobe dem Herrn – J.S. Bach
Una hora (from Tenebrae Responsories) – Stephen Caracciolo
Mozart Composes for the Church
Ave Verum Corpus
Mass in C, K. 317 (“Coronation”)
i. Kyrie eleison
ii. Gloria in excelsis Deo
iv. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus / Benedictus
From the Folk Traditions
Danny Boy – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
How Can I Keep From Singing? – arr. Stephen Caracciolo
Seasonal Fare
A Savior from on High – Stephen Paulus
Wassail Song – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Go Tell it on the Mountain – arr. John Wesley Work
Noel – Brad Holmes (with African drums)
Charm City Goes Classical
Saturday, April 30 2022• 7:30 p.m.
UMBC Camerata, The Handel Choir of Baltimore
& Chamber Orchestra
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Regina Coeli (K.276) – Mozart
My Song Shall Be Always (HWV 252)
Ave Verum Corpus – Mozart
Mass in C, (K. 317) “Coronation Mass”
2019-2020 Performances
Magnificat
Featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s Exuberant Magnificat
with Chamber Ensemble
Stephen Caracciolo, conductor
Saturday November 23, 2019 8:00 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Performing Arts and Humanities Building
American Folk Hymns
Come Thou Font of Ev’ry Blessing – anon. from The Sacred Harp
I Will Arise – arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
The Promised Land – arr. Stephen Caracciolo MARYLAND PREMIERE
American Concert Fare
A Clear Midnight – Rich Campbell
Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses) – arr. Jack Klebanow
Dirait-on (So They Say) – Morten Lauridsen
INTERMISSION
Magnificat, RV 610 – Antonio Vivaldi
i. Magnificat
ii. Et exultavit spiritus meus
iii. Et misericordia ejus
iv. Fecit potentiam
v. Deposuit potentes
vi. Esurientes implevit bonis
vii. Suscepit Israel puerum suum
viii. Sicut locutis est
ix. Gloria Patri
Two Villancicos from Renaissance Spain
Verbum caro factum est (The Word was Made Flesh) – Anon. 16 th century
A un niño llorando (A Child Cries in the Cold) – Francisco Guerrero
Three Carols
Wassail Carol – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht – arr. Stephen Caracciolo MARYLAND PREMIERE
People, Look East – Stephen Caracciolo
2018-2019 Performances
Camerata Chamber Choir Spring Concert
Sunday April 28, 2018 8:00 pm
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Dr. Rachel Carlson, guest conductor
Selections from:
Johannes Brahms – Liebeslieder-Walzer
Folksongs from the British Isles:
Gustav Holst – My Sweetheart’s like Venus
Joseph Flummerfelt – The Water is Wide
Joseph Flummerfelt – Danny Boy
Daniel Pinkham – Wedding Cantata
On Death:
Rich Campbell – A Clear Midnight
Dan Forrest- Good Night Dear Heart
Emma Lou Diemer – Three Madrigals
The Sublime, the Profane, and the Ridiculous
Sunday December 2, 2018, 8:00 pm
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Dr. Stephen Caracciolo, conductor
From Renaissance Europe:
Giovanni. P. Palestrina – Pope Marcellus Mass
Orlando di Lasso – O la, O che bon eccho
John Bennet – Weep, O mine eyes
John Farmer – Fair Phyllis, I saw
Adriano Banchieri – Contraponto bestiale alla mente
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana
arr. Daniel M. Cason – Unity
arr. Stephen Caracciolo – Will ye gae to Flanders?
William Dawson – Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
Seasonal Fare:
arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams – Wassail Song
Stephen Caracciolo – There is No Rose of Such Virtue
arr. Robert Shaw – Angels We Have Heard on High
2017-2018 Performances
Lord Nelson Mass – Franz Joseph Haydn
Sunday May 14, 2018 7:30 pm
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Dr. Stephen Caracciolo, conductor
Performed with the all-professional Howard County Concert Orchestra
Camerata Chamber Choir Fall Concert
Sunday December 3, 2017, 8:00 pm
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Dr. Stephen Caracciolo, conductor
A European Accent:
Gustav Holst – I Vow to Thee My Country, Transcription of the “chorale” from The Planets, “Jupiter” for SSAATTBB voices by Stephen Caracciolo (b.1962)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Turtle Dove
harm. Johann Sebastian Bach – O Jesulein süss! O Jesulein mild!
Franz Joseph Haydn – Gloria (from Mass in D Minor, “Lord Nelson”, 1798)
An American Patchwork
arr. James Erb – Shenandoah
arr. Norman Luboff Deep River
arr. James Miller I Wanna be Ready
Morten Lauridsen – Sure On this Shining Night (from Nocturnes)
Paul F. Page Donde Hay – Part song
Aaron Copland – The Promise of Living
2016-2017 Performances
Camerata Chamber Choir Spring Concert
Sunday May 14 (Mother’s Day), 7:30pm
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Dr. Stephen Caracciolo, conductor
$5 donation welcome
Evening Beauty
Stars – Ēriks Ešenvalds
Good Night Dear Heart – Daniel Forrest
Flower of Beauty – John Clements
American Folksongs
La Martiniana – arr David Conte
La Llorona
Shenandoah – arr James Erb
Simple Gifts arr Stephen Caracciolo
A New Work
To the One Seated on the Throne – Stephen Caracciolo
Oratorio, Opera, and Cantata Choruses
And The Glory of the Lord (from Messiah)– G.F. Handel
Va Pensiero (from Nabucco) – Giuseppe Verdi
Treulich Geführt (from Lohengrin)– Richard Wagner
O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana) – Carl Orff
2015-2016 Performances
Purcell’s London
Saturday, October 31, 2015, 7pm
Performed with the UMBC Opera Workshop
Linehan Concert Hall (Performing Arts & Humanities Building)
Parking Lot 8 and Hilltop Circle spaces free after 7:00pm
A performance featuring the exuberant verse anthems of the genius English Baroque, Henry Purcell (1659-95).
Professional Vocal Soloists
Allison Mondel, soprano
Crossley Hawn, soprano
Roger Isaacs, countertenor
Oliver Mercer, tenor
Stephen Caracciolo, bass
With the Baltimore Baroque Band, and Camerata Chamber Choir serving as the tutti/ripienists.
TICKETS REQUIRED
Contact Music Office: Connie Bailey, baileyc@umbc.edu, (410) 455-2942.
December Concert
Sunday, December 6, 2015, 4pm
Linehan Concert Hall (Performing Arts & Humanities Building)
Parking Lot 8 and Hilltop Circle spaces free after 7:00pm
Carols for the season and other delights.
Spring Concert
Sunday, May 8, 2016, 4pm
Linehan Concert Hall (Performing Arts & Humanities Building)
Parking Lot 8, 9, and Hilltop Circle spaces free all weekend
If Music Be the Food of Love – David Dickau
Abendlied – Johannes Brahms
The Wild Song – Michael McGlynn
To Everything There Is a Season – Stephen Caracciolo
Duo des fleurs (Duet of the Flowers from Lakmé) – Léo Delibes (Women)
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Men) – arr. Alan Dunbar
Songs of the Bavarian Highlands Op 27 – Edward Elgar
False Love
Lullaby
The Dance
Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide)– Leonard Bernstein
2014-2015 Concerts
December Concert
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014, 8pm
Performed with the UMBC Opera Workshop
Our New! Performing Arts Building, Concert Hall
Parking Lot 8 and Hilltop Circle spaces free after 7:00pm
Mendelssohn’s Gift for Melody
Auf dem See (On the Sea)
Hear My Prayer
Thanks be to God (from Elijah)
A Choral Potpourri
Danny Boy – arr. Flummerfelt
Sanctus (from Requiem) – John Rutter
How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps – Stephen Caracciolo
Carols for the Season
Deck the Hall – arr. David Willcocks
The Very Best Time of Year – John Rutter
Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovych
Christmas Night – John Rutter
Sans Day Carol – Stephen Caracciolo
Angels We Have Heard on High – Alice Parker
Choral Festival
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015, 8pm
Our New! Performing Arts Building, Concert Hall
Parking Lot 8 and Hilltop Circle spaces free after 7:00pm
CCBC Catonsvile Choir
Prof. Andrew Dibble – conductor
Salmo 150 – Ernani Aguiar
Lady in the Water – Eric Barnum
Pie Jesu (from Requiem) – Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Storm is Passing Over – arr. Barbara Baker
UMBC Camerata
Dr. Stephen Caracciolo – conductor
Hail Gladdening Light – Charles Wood
The Lord is my Shepherd – John Rutter
Auf dem See (On the Lake) – Felix Mendelssohn
Lebenslust (Joy of Living) – Franz Schubert
Eastern Michigan University Chamber Choir
Dr. Brandon Johnson – conductor
Der Geist Hilft Unser Schwachheit auf – J.S. Bach
Richte Mich Gott – Felix Mendelssohn
Sicut Cervus – G.P. Palestrina
Tonight Eternity Alone – Rene Clausen
Idumea (Shape Note Tune from Kentucky Harmony, 1816)
Shenandoah – arr. James Erb
Wana Baraka – arr. Shawn Kirchner
Sure on this Shining Night – Morton Lauridsen
He’ll Make A Way – Byron Smith
Combined Ensembles
The Promise of Living – Aaron Copland
Requiem
The Music of John Rutter
Performed with the Maryland Choral Society
and the Howard County Concert Orchestra
SUNDAY MAY 10, 2015, 8pm
Our New! Performing Arts Building, Concert Hall
Parking Lot 8 and Hilltop Circle spaces free after 7:00pm
2013-2014 Performances
Fall Concert
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2013, 8pm
Performed with the UMBC Opera Workshop
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Parking in Lot 8 is free after 7:00pm
Sacred Texts
Salmo 150 – Ernani Aquiar
Dies Irae(from the Gregorian Missa Pro defunctis)- Medieval anonymous
Ev’rytime I Feel the Spirit – William Dawson
Love’s Pain
The Water is Wide – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
Il bianco e dolce cigno – Jacob Arcadelt
Movements from Larger Works
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnugen – Johannes Brahms
from Ein Deutsches Requiem
Gloria – W. A. Mozart
from Mass in C, “Coronation”
Carols for the Season
Ding Dong! Merrily on High – arr. Charles Wood
Nova, Nova – Renaissance anonymous
In dulci Jubilo – J.S. Bach
Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovych
The Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar – Peter Cornelius
There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue – Stephen Caracciolo
Angels We Have Heard on High – arr. Robert Shaw
Mostly Mozart
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014, 8pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Parking in Lot 8 is free after 7:00pm
Admission is free, $5 donations will be welcome
Three Folk Songs; arranged by Joseph Flummerfelt
The Water Is Wide
Flow Gently Sweet Afton
Danny Boy
Three Sacred Texts/Three Different Sound Worlds
Hodie Christus natus est – Giovanni Gabrieli – Italian Renaissance
Spaseniye sodelal – Pavel Chesnokov – Russian Orthodox
O Sifuni Mungu – David Muddux/Roger Emerson – African Chorus
Mozart Mass in C, K317 “Coronation”
Performed with soloists and chamber orchestra
2012-2013 Performance
With Hope and Thanksgiving
Saturday, NOVEMBER 17, 2012, 8pm
A collaborative concert performed with the United States Navy Sea Chanters, guest artists
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Parking in Lot 8 is free after 7:00pm
Camerata
Let Thy Hand be Strengthened – G.F. Handel
The Promise of Living – Aaron Copland
Brindisi – Guiseppi Verdi
United States Navy Sea Chanters
Ever With Me – Gwyneth Walker
Animal Crackers, volume 2 – Eric Whitacre
Let There Be Peace on Earth – arr. James Turk
Drunken Sailor – arr. Robert Sund
Combined Ensembles
Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras (A German Requiem)
– Johannes Brahms
Wayfaring Stranger – arr. Stephen Caracciolo
Crossin’ Ovah – Richard Jackson
Make Our Garden Grow – Leonard Bernstein
Choruses and Carols
Saturday, December 8, 2012, 8pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Parking in Lot 8 is free after 7:00pm
Let Thy Hand be Strengthened – G.F. Handel
Choruses
Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras (A German Requiem)
– Johannes Brahms
Brindisi (La Traviata) – Giuseppi Verdi
The Promise of Living (The Tenderland) – Aaron Copland
Make Our Garden Grow (Candide) – Leonard Bernstein
Americana
Wayfaring Stranger – arr. Stephen Caracciolo
Crossin’ Ovah – Richard Jackson
Carols for the Season
Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovych
Hush, My Dear Lie Still And Slumber – Stephen Caracciolo
Wassail Song – arr. Ralph Vaughn Williams
Angels We Have Heard on High – arr. Alice Parker
Carols for the Season
Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 1:45pm
UMBC Commons Mainstreet
Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovych
Hush, My Dear Lie Still And Slumber – Stephen Caracciolo
Wassail Song – arr. Ralph Vaughn Williams
Angels We Have Heard on High – arr. Alice Parker
A German Requiem – Johannes Brahms
Sunday, April 14, 2013, 4pm
In collaboration with
The Handel Choir of Baltimore and The Orchestra of St. John’s
Melinda O’Neal, conducting
Church of Saint Michael and All Angels
2013 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland
Tickets required in advance
Parking available across the street
2011-2012 Performances
Carmina Burana
Saturday, October 8, 2011, 8pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Featured Voice and Percussion Solos
John Duke Songs, Colleen McKenna, soprano
I Carry Your Heart
I Can’t Be Talkin’ of Love
Loveliest of Trees
Bruce Hamilton Percussion piece, Zachary Shanks, percussion
Edge (Corrugated Box) for multi-percussion soloist and tape
Carmina Burana – Carl Orff
Camerata performs a lengthy suite of movements from Carl Orff’s youthful and exuberant cantata, Carmina Burana. The performance will feature the two-piano/percussion version of the work with the UMBC Percussion Ensemble, Tom Goldstein conductor, supplying the heart pounding, thrilling power to this audience favorite.
Fall Concert
Saturday, November 19, 2011, 8pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
In the Italian Language
Amor Vittorioso – Giovanni Gastoldi
Lasciatemi morire – Claudio Monteverdi
Vita de la mia vita – William Hawley
Va Pensiero – Giuseppe Verdi
Carols of the Season
Wassail Song – Ralph Vaughn Williams
Some Children See Him – Alfred Burt
Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovich
Sans Day Carol – Stephen Caracciolo
People Look East – Stephen Caracciolo
Carmina Burana – Carl Orff
Camerata performs a lengthy suite of movements from Carl Orff’s youthful and exuberant cantata, Carmina Burana. The performance will feature the two-piano/percussion version of the work with the UMBC Percussion Ensemble, Tom Goldstein conductor, supplying the heart pounding, thrilling power to this audience favorite.
Carols of the Season
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 1:45pm
UMBC Commons Mainstreet
Wassail Song – Ralph Vaughn Williams
Some Children See Him – Alfred Burt
Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovich
People Look East – Stephen Caracciolo
How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank – Stephen Caracciolo
Thursday, February 9, 1:45-2:15pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Premiere performance of UMBC Faculty Fellowship research. The text is drawn from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, which begins, “How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank. Here will we sit and let he sound of music creep inn our ears.”
Missa “O Magnum Mysterium” – Tomas Luis de Victoria
Thursday, March 1, 1:45 – 2:15pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
A short mass from the Renaissance Spain based on the composer’s own famous motet of the same name.
Lighter Fare
Thursday, March 15, 1:45 – 2:15pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
A brief program of lighter fare, including “Danny Boy” in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.
Vita de la mia vita – William Hawley
The Gift To Be Simple – arr. Bob Chilcott
Danny Boy – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
Wade in the Water – arr. Moses Hogan
How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank – Stephen Caracciolo
Saturday, April 14, 7pm
Hylton High School, Woodbridge, VA.
Complete performance of this new work performed with the choir and string orchestra of Hylton High School, Woodbridge, Va. The text is drawn from Shakespeare’s the Merchant of Venice, which begins, “How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank. Here will we sit and let the sound of music creep inn our ears.”
Spring Concert
Saturday, April 28, 8:00pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Missa “O Magnum Mysterium” – Tomas Luis de Victoria
A short mass from the Renaissance Spain based on the composer’s own famous motet of the same name.
Music for Evening Prayer
O Come and Worship (from All-Night Vigil) – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Psalm 145 (Anglican chant) – Douglas Major
Let My Prayer Rise Before You as Incense – Stephen Caracciolo
Hail Gladdening Light (for double choir) – Charles Wood
2010-2011 Performances
VIVA VIVALDI
Saturday, December 11, 2010, 8pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
A Renaissance Motet
O magnum mysterium – Tomas Luis de Victoria
Three Settings of Old English Carols
Noel, Sing We Both All and Some – anon. 15th Century
Make We Joy Now In This Fest – Stephen Caracciolo
A Savior From On High – Stephen Paulus
Four Choral Favorites
Danny Boy – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
Daniel, Servant of the Lord – Undine Moore
Wassail Song – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Noel – (African carol) arr. by Brad Holmes
Love Songs
Liebeslieder Waltzes – Johannes Brahms
a short set of selected songs from the collection
Featured Work
Magnificat in G Minor, RV 610 – Antonio Vivaldi
performed with chamber orchestra and soloists
Opera Choruses
Thursday February 10, 1:45 – 2:15
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
“Va, pensiero” from Nabucco – Giuseppe Verdi
solo “Se vuol ballare” – from The Marriage of Figaro – W. A. Mozart
solo “O Image Angel-like and Fair” – from The Magic Flute – W. A. Mozart
“Finales to Acts I & II” from The Magic Flute – W. A. Mozart
Americana
Thursday February 24, 1:45 – 2:15
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Shenandoah – arr. James Erb
solo Zion’s Walls – arr. Aaron Copland
Bound for the Promised Land – arr. Mack Wilberg
Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair – arr. Stuart Churchill
Polly Wolly Doodle – arr. Gail Kubik
Songs of the Irish
Thursday March 17 (St. Patrick’s), 1:45 – 2:15
The Commons
Danny Boy – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt
The Wild Song (as sung by Anúna) – Michael McGlynn
The Rakes of Mallow – arr. T.C. Kelly
Contemporary Composers
Thursday April 14, 1:45 – 2:15
Fine Arts Building, Center for Art Design and Visual Culture
First Kyrie (from Mass in Five Parts) – Francis Pott
The Wild Song (as sung by Anúna) – Michael McGlynn
The Lamb – Stephen Caracciolo
Salmo 150 – Ernani Aguiar
Evening Concert
Saturday April 30, 8:00pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
2009-2010 Performances
Mozart Mass
Friday, December 4, 2009, 8pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
Missa in C, K220 “Sparrow Mass” – W.A. Mozart
Performed with chamber orchestra and soloists
Four Carols for the Season
In Dulci Jubilo – Robert Lucas Pearsall
Wassail Song – Ralph Vaughan Williams
There Is No Rose of Such Virtue – Stephen Caracciolo
People Look East – Stephen Caracciolo
Love and Marriage
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 8pm
Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall
The Russian Liturgical Tradition
Priidite, Poklonimsia – Pyort Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Spaseniye Sodelal – Pavel Chesnokov
Love and Marriage
Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder – Claude Debussy
Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair – arr. Stuart Churchill
Flower of Beauty – John Clements
Three Madrigals – Emma Lou Diemer
Wedding Cantata – Daniel Pinkham
Three Spirituals
Daniel, Servant of the Lord – Undine Moore
I Wanna be Ready – James Miller
Rock-a Ma Soul – Paul Christiansen