Polyphonic choral music is alive and well in Central New York!
Your church could plan a Service of Lessons and Carols for Advent for your congregation and community. Tapestry could enliven your organization's meeting or banquet with a madrigal program, presented by costumed singers. You might prefer a full concert, including motets and madrigals by the finest early music composers.
To schedule a Tapestry performance, please contact Alan Frederick, our Business Manager. He will negotiate a performance fee based on the program length and travel distance. After consulting the ensemble about their availability, he will contact you and discuss the details of the performance.
TAPESTRY – The All Centuries Singers
Alan Frederick, Business Manager
10497 Cosby Manor Road
Utica, NY 13502 USA
Phone 315.732.8483
E-mail: ALANNEM@roadrunner.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
History
Tapestry first rehearsed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Utica, NY, with Director Peter Carole. JoElyn Wakefield Wright became our director shortly before we accepted the Kirkland Art Center's offer of rehearsal space and moved to Clinton. Currently we meet at St. James Episcopal Church in Clinton, where we have often presented Christmas Concerts. We thank the Vestry and the Rector of St. James for their hospitality.
One of our early performances, for an American Guild of organists meeting, was held during a Central New York sleet storm. The Audience that evening barely outnumbered the singers. By contrast we sang for hundreds at the Welsh National Gymnafa Ganu in Utica's Stanley Theater. No matter where we sing, our a cappella music and our costumed madrigal presentations are well received.
While most community-based choral groups plan two or more completely different concerts each year, Tapestry has become a repertoire company, with a lengthy list of sacred and secular songs. This allows us to accept singing engagements with fairly short notice, by choosing music that requires a minimum amount of rehearsal time.
We have been invited to sing at many different venues. Here is a greatly abbreviated list of past concert sites:
American Guild of Organists Regional Convention, Pittsfield, MA
B# Club, Utica, NY
Chenango Festival, Hamilton, NY
Christ Episcopal Church, Cooperstown, NY
Christmas Candlelight Weekend, Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Cobleskill Performing Arts Series, Cobleskill, NY
Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
Lorenzo State Historic Site, Cazenovia, NY
Mohawk Valley Center For The Arts, Little Falls, NY
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY
Old Forge Art Center, Old Forge, NY
Remsen Barn Festival of the Arts, Remsen, NY
Rome Art and Community Center, Rome, NY
Rome Taste of the Arts, Rome, NY
St. James Episcopal Church, Clinton
St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, Sherburne, NY
St. Stephen's Church, Syracuse, NY
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hamilton, NY
Stone Presbyterian Church, Clinton, NY
Unity Hall, Barneveld, NY
Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu, Utica, NY
Of course we'll never forget our trips abroad: Spain in 1988, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Hungary in 1991, and, in 1993, Quebec City, Canada, where for four days we sang to enthusiastic crowds at Les Médiévales de Québec.
One of our early performances, for an American Guild of organists meeting, was held during a Central New York sleet storm. The Audience that evening barely outnumbered the singers. By contrast we sang for hundreds at the Welsh National Gymnafa Ganu in Utica's Stanley Theater. No matter where we sing, our a cappella music and our costumed madrigal presentations are well received.
While most community-based choral groups plan two or more completely different concerts each year, Tapestry has become a repertoire company, with a lengthy list of sacred and secular songs. This allows us to accept singing engagements with fairly short notice, by choosing music that requires a minimum amount of rehearsal time.
We have been invited to sing at many different venues. Here is a greatly abbreviated list of past concert sites:
American Guild of Organists Regional Convention, Pittsfield, MA
B# Club, Utica, NY
Chenango Festival, Hamilton, NY
Christ Episcopal Church, Cooperstown, NY
Christmas Candlelight Weekend, Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Cobleskill Performing Arts Series, Cobleskill, NY
Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
Lorenzo State Historic Site, Cazenovia, NY
Mohawk Valley Center For The Arts, Little Falls, NY
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY
Old Forge Art Center, Old Forge, NY
Remsen Barn Festival of the Arts, Remsen, NY
Rome Art and Community Center, Rome, NY
Rome Taste of the Arts, Rome, NY
St. James Episcopal Church, Clinton
St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, Sherburne, NY
St. Stephen's Church, Syracuse, NY
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hamilton, NY
Stone Presbyterian Church, Clinton, NY
Unity Hall, Barneveld, NY
Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu, Utica, NY
Of course we'll never forget our trips abroad: Spain in 1988, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Hungary in 1991, and, in 1993, Quebec City, Canada, where for four days we sang to enthusiastic crowds at Les Médiévales de Québec.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Motets & Merriment
Enjoy Tapestry's latest recording, Motets and Merriment, available on cassette tape for $10.00 or CD for $15.00, tax and shipping included. (Sorry, we cannot accept credit card orders.)To order, please telephone or E-mail:
TAPESTRY – The All-Centuries Singers
Phone: (917) 392-1047
E-mail: timothyjbeck@gmail.com
Contents of this recording:
Sacred Music:
Antiphon, Adhuc eo loquente --- (Gregorian)
Miserere mei, Deus --- Josquin Desprez
Antiphon, Respondens autem Petrus --- (Gregorian)
Sicut cervus/Sitivit anima mea --- Giovanni da Palenstrina
Antiphon, Resplenduit facies --- (Gregorian)
Lobet den Herrn --- Johann Sebastian Bach
Madrigals and Part-songs:
Introduction to Sweet Suffolk Owl, read by Richard Frost
Sweet Suffolk Owl --- Thomas Vautor
Eggs For Sale --- Adrian Willaert
Too Much I Once Lamented --- Thomas Tomkins
Il est bel et bon --- Pierre Passereau
Come Sirrah Jack, Ho! --- Thomas Weelkes
Draw On Sweet Night --- John Wilbye
Galans qui par terre --- Orlando di Lasso
Though Amaryllis Dance in Green --- William Byrd
Il bianco e dolce cigno --- Jacob Arcadelt
Revecy venir du printemps --- Claude LeJeune
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Meet Tapestry
Founded by Margaret and Ronald Bornick in 1985, Tapestry is a Central New York choral ensemble dedicated to performing polyphonic music, usually a cappella but occasionally accompanied by recorders or other period instruments. Singers share a love of harmony and a determination to master choral music of varying degrees of difficulty.
Tapestry specializes in music of the Renaissance that the singers introduce with original poetry written by Richard Frost, Tapestry's Bard, who is also a charter member of the ensemble.
Tapestry specializes in music of the Renaissance that the singers introduce with original poetry written by Richard Frost, Tapestry's Bard, who is also a charter member of the ensemble.
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