Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" - Ottawa Sparrows Children's Choir

St. John the Baptist, Ottawa, March 26, 2013 with Orchestra (Sinfonia Sacra) Amaryllis Women's Choir of Vankleek Hill (amarylliswomenschoir.ca) Sacred Music Society (sacredmusicsociety.com) Also featuring a capella motets The Ottawa Sparrows Choir School has over fifty young people from junior kindergarten to grade 9. For information on joining the Sparrows, please contact [email protected]. Our Cantata Stabat Mater is a poem from the 13th century that was popular at the time of Pergolesi's birth in Italy in 1710. Other composers had created music for it and Pergolesi wrote his version as he was dying from tuberculosis at the age of 26 - it was his last, and most famous, work. The title comes from the first line of the poem: 'The Mother stood'. The first six movements describe Mary's experience of Christ's crucifixion. The final six movement then describe a response to her experience and the significance of Christ's death. Program For audio links of the performance, a list of choir members, and a pdf of the text in Latin, literal English, and poetic English, go to http://sucroid.com/sparrows. Stabat Mater 5:16 #1 Stabat Mater - Sparrows and Amaryllis 10:10 #2 Cujus animam gementem - soprano solo (Jonah Nung) 13:03 #3 O quam tristis - Sparrows and Amaryllis 17:11 #4 Quae moerebat - alto solo (Samuel Visser) 20:46 #5 Quis est homo - duet (Justus Walker, soprano, and Auke Visser, alto) with Sparrows, Amaryllis, and Sacred Music Society (23:06) 25:10 O Vos Omnes (Toma Lodovico da Vittoria) - Sparrows and Sacred Music Society a capella 29:31 #6 Vidit suum - soprano solo (Peter Stuyt) with Sparrows and Amaryllis (30:21) 35:26 #7 Eia Mater - Sparrows and Amaryllis 37:30 #8 Fac ut ardeat - Sparrows, Amaryllis, and Sacred Music Society 41:12 #9 Sancta Mater - duet (Madeleine Visser, soprano, and Auke Visser, alto) with Sparrows and Amaryllis (44:15) 48:39 #10 Fac ut portem - alto solo (Madeleine Visser) 52:59 #11 Inflammatus - soprano solo (Paul Demke) with Sparrows and Amaryllis (54:14) 58:37 #12 Quando Corpus - Sparrows and Amaryllis 1:01:31 #13 Amen - Sparrows, Amaryllis, and Sacred Music Society Sparrows 1:04:20 Love Ye the Lord (Handel) - with Novices and Postulants 1:07:00 Non Nobis Domine (Byrd) - with Sacred Music Society 1:10:02 Panis Angelicus (Cesar Frank) - soprano solo (Rhys Patrick) with Novices, Postulants, and Sacred Music Society (1:11:20) and tenors (Peter Stuyt and Roman Kozak - 1:12:20) Crownings (1:13:51) 1:14:45 Olivia Soryal (elevated to Senior) 1:15:49 Miriam Musca (elevated to Senior) 1:16:46 Zoe Dudzinski (elevated to Senior) 1:17:44 Zac Walker (elevated to Senior) 1:18:34 Benjamin Tucker (elevated to Senior) 1:19:21 Corwin Patrick (elevated to Junior) 1:20:26 Jubilate Deo Our Director Uwe Lieflander was born in Germany and trained at the Regensburg Academy of Church Music. He came to Canada in 1984 and studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) under John Barnum. In 1996, he founded the Sacred Music Society, with a special focus on The Sparrows Choir School with the goal of training children as young as four to sing and appreciate the beauty of sacred music. In addition to directing the Ottawa Sparrows and Amaryllis Women's Choir, Mr. Lieflander is currently the head of the music department at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom (Barry's Bay), music director of the Martin Luther German Evangelical Lutheran Church (Ottawa), and music instructor at St. Timothy's Classical Academy (Ottawa). He is a former professor of Augustine College (Ottawa).