Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 7:30pm
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Conductor
Nell Snaidas, Soprano and Guest Curator
Jennifer Ellis Kampani, Soprano
El Mundo, Richard Savino, Director
The season opens on Saturday, October 19, 2019 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco with Daring Sisters / Atrevidas Hermanas, a program that pays homage to one of the leading feminist figures of the 17th century Latin American Baroque era, Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz. Known as an intellectual, scholar, philosopher, poet and composer, de la Cruz stands as a national icon of Mexico for her staunch advocacy of women’s rights to pursue an intellectual life, and to study and be recognized as equal to men.
SFGC will be joined by a variety of Latin American and Spanish Baroque music specialists including soprano Nell Snaidas, who also serves as curator; soprano and SFGC alumna Jennifer Ellis Kampani and Richard Savino’s GRAMMY-nominated chamber ensemble, El Mundo. Selected works by de la Cruz will be featured alongside music written by Mexican, Bolivian and Peruvian composers. The program will be sung in Spanish, Nahuatl and Quechua and will include works by Andres Flores, Juan Garcia de Zéspedes, Juan de Lienas and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
PROGRAM
Hanacpachap cussicuinin, Anónimo
¡Ay andar a tocar, a cantar, a baylar!, Juan de Araujo
Madre la de los primores, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Por celebrar del Infante, Anónimo (Juan de Araujo) on a text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
A este edificio celebre, Andrés Flores on a text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
LOA from La púrpura de la rosa, Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco
Cachua a voz y Bajo, Trujillo del Peru
Al Nacimiento de Christo Nuestro Señor:
Dennos lecencia
Cachua a Duo y a quarto con voces y Bajo, Trujillo del Peru
Al Nacimiento de Christo Nuestro Señor:
Niño il mijor
Tonada el Diamante / el Tuppamaro, Trujillo del Peru
Buenas Noche Señor usia, Moxo Festival Music, Bolivia
Bi sa moro pona bore, Moxo Festival Music, Bolivia
Encha, encha, Moxo Festival Music, Bolivia
Te lucis ante términum, Juan de Lienas
Oygan una xacarilla, Rafael Antonio Castellanos
Convidando esta la noche, Juan Garcia de Zéspedes
Dios itlaçonantzine, Don Hernando Franco
Al dormer el sol en la cuna del alva, Sebastián Durón
