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Totally Brubeck:
The Dave Brubeck Quartet and Yale Camerata in Woolsey Hall
October 9, 2006| 8pm
Woolsey Hall
General admission tickets ($15; $10 for students and seniors) are
available at the Yale Concert Office, 203/432-4158 or online at
www.yale.edu/music.
On Monday, October 9, in its first concert of the season, the Yale
Camerata, directed by Marguerite L. Brooks, will perform Dave Brubeck’s
Pange Lingua Variations with The Dave Brubeck Quartet and
full orchestra. Russell Gloyd will conduct. The work, part of a
canon of sacred works composed by the celebrated jazz icon, will
form the second half of a varied program. The Quartet will present
a more “traditional” selection of jazz favorites during
the first part of the evening. The concert begins at 8 pm at Woolsey
Hall in New Haven.
Dave Brubeck is a legendary figure in contemporary jazz. Winner
of numerous awards, including the National Medal of the Arts and
a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award by the National Academy of Recording
Arts and Sciences, Mr. Brubeck has enjoyed an extensive and varied
career as a performer, recording artist, and composer. He has appeared
with many jazz luminaries, including Duke Ellington, Stan Getz,
Louis Armstrong, and Carmen McRae, as well as with his own Dave
Brubeck Quartet. Perhaps best known for his secular jazz work, Dave
Brubeck is also a prolific composer of sacred works, including
To Hope! A Celebration (mass), Beloved Son (Easter
oratorio), The Voice of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost oratorio),
The Gates of Justice (on text drawn from the Old Testament
and from writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), and the Gregorian
chant-inspired Pange Lingua Variations, which will be performed
on the New Haven concert. In November 2004, in recognition of his
body of sacred choral music, the University of Fribourg in Switzerland
awarded him an honorary doctorate in sacred theology, making him
the first composer in any genre of music to be so honored.
Founded in 1985 by its conductor, Marguerite L. Brooks, the Yale
Camerata's approximately sixty singers are Yale graduate and undergraduate
students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven
community. The Camerata performs a widely varied spectrum of choral
literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time.
The concert is sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
and Yale Divinity School.
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