Concert Programs

USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia Concert Program

March 3, 2023
8:00 p.m.

USC Thornton’s early music ensemble, the Baroque Sinfonia, present a program titled “Early Modern Music in the Americas.” The performance, led by Thornton faculty Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida, features Francisco Javier García Fajer’s Missa in D and Torrejón y Velasco’s La púrpura de la rosa, the first opera composed in the Americas.

Program

Pavane d’Espaigne/Folia

Anonymous

Sardanas

Anonymous

Scenes from La Púrpura de la Rosa
    Loa “Ha del coro de las nueve ninfas!”
    “Al bosque, al bosque”

Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco
(1644-1728)

L’Eroica à 3

Andrea Falconieri
(1585-ca. 1656)

Scenes from La Púrpura de la Rosa
    Chato and Celfa “Sabras, Celfa, responder a una duda?”
    “No puede Amor”
    Xacara “No puede pues”
    “Un Adonis, ay de mi!”

Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco

Un Sarao de la chacona

Juan Arañés
(d. 1649)

Missa in D
    Kyrie
    Gloria
        Et in terra
        Domine Deus
        Qui tollis
        Quoniam
        Cum sancto spiritu

Francisco Javier García Fajer
(1730-1809)
ed. Alejandro Acosta

Ensemble

USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
 
Yue Qian, violin
Diana Dawydchak, violin
Prosper Luchart, viola
Eric Tinkerhess, cello
Mana Azimi, harp
Alejandro Acosta, guitar
Robert Wang, theorbo
Jason Yoshida, guitar*
Hejun Yang, harpsichord
Phillip Matsuura, harpsichord
 
Luis Lechuga-Espadas, oboe
Lot Demeyer, oboe*
Kris Kwapis, trumpet**
Melissa Hilton Rodgers, trumpet**
Adam Bregman, trombone
Adam Gilbert, bassoon*
 
Andrea Zomorodian, voice (Venus)
Marina Hovhannisyan, voice (Urania, Cintia, Marte)
Eleanor Walters, voice (Calliope, Flora)
Mary Elder, voice (Terpsichore, Clori)
Jordan Jones, voice (El Tiempo, Libia)
Luis Lechuga-Espadas, voice (Amore)
Evan Llafet, voice (Adonis)
Connor Scott, voice (Chato)
Alex Kuncz, voice (Celfa)
 
*Thornton Faculty
**Guest Artists

USC Thornton Early Music Faculty
 
Adam Gilbert, program director
Jason Koji Yoshida, plucked strings
Rotem Gilbert, recorder
Jennifer Kampani, voice
Lot Demeyer, baroque oboe
Maxine Eilander, triple harp
Ian Pritchard, harpsichord