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a video of Kairos performing the "Agnus Dei" from William Byrd's
Mass for 4 Voices, recorded at Holy Cross Monastery in
April 2012 during rehearsal. (If the video is blurry, click the
"HQ" button at the bottom right of the video)
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on the YouTube video below to hear Kairos perform Jan
Pieterszoon Sweelinck's Psalm 96, "Chantez a Dieu, chanson
nouvelle" (Sing to the Lord a New Song):
Petite Messe
Solennelle (Gioachino Rossini) Sunday, April 6, 2008
Friends Meeting House
Poughkeepsie, New York
Ruthanne Schempf, Kristin Dockery,
piano; Gary Palmieri, harmonium
Cantata No. 8,
Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben? (J.S. Bach) Sunday, September 27, 2009
Holy Cross Monastery
West Park, New York
Orchestra: Marka Young, Marla Rathbun, violin; Valentina
Charlap-Evans, viola; Susan Seligman, cello; Philip Helm, double
bass; Marcia Gates, flute; Joël
Evans, Ann Churukian, oboe; Mary Jane Corry, harpsichord
Exeter Riddles
(John B Hedges) - based on texts from the Exeter Book Sunday, May 8, 2011
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
New Paltz, New York
Written in a single hand, the Exeter Book is one of four
manuscripts, dating from the second half of the tenth
century, that preserve virtually all the poetry in Old
English that has survived. Among the other texts, there
are over 90 riddles, written in the style of Anglo-Saxon
poetry and ranging in topics from the religious to the
mundane - many of them double entendres. Exeter
Riddles is a collection of pieces for chorus set
to five of the riddles. The work is as varied as the
riddles themselves, at times aggressive, at times
mysterious and lyrical, and at other times bawdy and
suggestive. They are accompanied by harp and drum
(instruments that would have traditionally done so).
Kairos presented the world premiere of Exeter Riddles
on our 2011 spring concert.
