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Scarlatti's Stabat Mater
Two of the Baroque's most profound meditations on grief and mortality come together for a single evening this March. On Friday, March 27 at 7:00 pm, the Cathedral Schola, Trinity's professional vocal ensemble, joins Portland Baroque Orchestra for a program pairing Domenico Scarlatti's "Stabat Mater" for ten voices with Johann Sebastian Bach's "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit," BWV 106, the luminous funeral cantata also known as "Actus tragicus."
Presented during Passiontide, the program traces a profound emotional arc: from Scarlatti's aching portrait of grief at the foot of the cross to Bach's quiet tenderness in the face of mortality. Bach wrote the Actus tragicus when he was barely twenty; it remains one of his most affecting works.
Trinity's Canon for Music Katherine Webb conducts, with Organ Scholar James Walton and PBO principal cellist Joanna Blendulf leading the continuo. Featured soloists are Vakarė Petroliūnaitė, soprano; Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano; Leslie Green, tenor; and Daniel Pickens-Jones, baritone.
Founded in 1984, Portland Baroque Orchestra is one of North America's leading period-instrument ensembles, bringing historical performance practice and vital artistry to music of the Baroque and Classical eras. This collaboration brings PBO's intimacy and clarity to Trinity's resonant acoustics: an ideal setting for music of this profundity.
Trinity Music is the professional music program of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, comprising the Cathedral Schola, Trinity Choir, and Choir School, a concert series with nationally recognized guest artists, and the acclaimed Rosales organ, all in one of Portland's finest acoustic spaces.
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