Speaking of hard to find music... Caro Mea by Scarlatti??
  • I once had this in my collection but can't seem to locate it--it's one of my favorites too but out of print now. I'd love to reclaim another copy..does anyone by chance have one?
  • It doesn't seem to be in any of the anthologies either..
  • Still looking for this piece..does anyone have it???
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Here is a video of a performance of it, and I'm pretty sure that's forum member Mark Husey on the organ. So perhaps he can direct you to a source.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-bHqu2YOc
  • Do you have the Early Choral Master collection? It's in there (just in case you forgot which collection it is in, which I very often do). Have you checked ClassicalMusicReprints.com? Or any library listings (if you can't find it)? Local university/church library, Worldcat, for example? I couldn't find the sheet music ANYWHERE, so if you have the ECM collection lost in your (or an acquaintence's) personal library somewhere, lucky you once you find it! Hope your search is fruitful.
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    Philothea ... I recall it being in the E.C.M. as well, but I could not locate but two of the collections (although I know I have more, probably packed away), and of course the two volumes I found are the wrong ones.
  • Ah, I don't have E.C.M. either, I really hope to find this piece. And yes, none of the libraries in the states have it, or any library willing to send it that is.. Maybe Mark H. will read this?
  • You can PM him, I think.
  • Mark HuseyMark Husey
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    Somebody sent me a message about this earlier this summer... I need to scan it and I'd be glad to share it. It's a wonderful piece: it's originally scored for STB, but I usually do it ST. I'll put that on my "To do" list today...I've been actively procrastinating. Mea culpa.
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    Thanks, Mark. If I locate my copy, I'll scan it, too; however, I'm afraid it is packed away in an unknown box somewhere, so you'll probably beat me to it.

    Years ago, at All Saints in Princeton, we did it with the boychoir singing the Soprano and just one or two men on each other Tenor and Bass parts. It was delightful.
  • Mark HuseyMark Husey
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    Charles, that's exactly where my copy comes from: I was Organist at All Saints (under the direction of Lois Laverty) from 1988 - 89; I learned as much choral rep in those 18 months than I did my entire 4 years at Westminster Choir College. The file is too big to upload here. If anyone wants a copy, e-mail me off list to huseym@gmail.com. Thanks.
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    Good grief, Mark! What a small world. I sang at All Saints from about 1962-66, as a graduate student at Princeton and subsequently at a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In the last two years, I also sang at Princeton United Methodist under Robert Simpson of Westminster Choir College. The organist/choirmaster at All Saints was Pat(?) Degen, who built an incredible music program there before moving to Germany with her husband. I remember singing the Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs there, twice, as well as the Bach Cantate "Bleib' bei uns", Randall Thompson's "The Peaceable Kingdom", Vaughan Williams "Festival Te Deum", the Scarlatti, virtually everything from the E.C.M. books, and scads of Byrd and Tallis, among others.

    In 62-64, while a grad. student, I hitched a ride with a friend from a folk group that I sang with ... she recruited me to sing at All Saints, and I never got to thank her enough. We were great friends and she married another fellow graduate student a few years later, and I married a Methodist from Oklahoma, which landed me at the Methodist church with Bob Simpson. Bob left Westminster a few years later and moved to Atlanta where he had a church position, and I moved to Charlottesville in 1966. I sang quite a few things with Bob's choir, too, and recall singing alto in the choir on the 4th Sunday of Advent, when the flu had decimated the choir, wiping out nearly all the sopranos ... two of the three altos sang soprano, and there were enough basses for me to sing alto ... we sang "And the glory" from Messiah; of course, I hadn't rehearsed the alto part, but it wasn't a problem, thank heaven ... what an adventure!
  • Mark HuseyMark Husey
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    Lois Laverty is somewhat of a cult figure at Westminster Choir College, known for her quick wit and acerbic tongue. She turned 80 in 2010, and I organized a birthday concert in her honor at All Saints. As a faculty member at Westminster Choir College, she was soprano soloist/section leader at All Saints in the 1970's/80's under David Agler http://www.pinnaclearts.com/artist.php?id=120 who subsequently moved to Sydney and has had an incredible career as an opera conductor.

    I was in Lois' freshman Singer's Diction class in the fall of 1987 and immediately took a liking to her. Her organist (2nd place winner in the Chartres Competition) up and quit after Christmas, and she asked me to come and play for her, because she wanted "a nice, normal church organist." (!!!)

    Highlights of my time there were playing for Pinkham's "Christmas Oratorio" with brass (when Christmas Day fell on Sunday morning in 1988), Britten's "Rejoice in the Lamb," Wood's Communion Servie in the Phrygian Mode, those wonderful Oxford "Anthems for Choirs" Anthologies (I can't live without Volume II), and playing a combined Trinity/All Saints concert of Mendelssohn's "Elijah," with John Bertalot as conductor. Mr. Bertalot had to come over to the Allen console to personally turn my page as I somehow missed the message about a cut in the score during the concert! I also remember coming in a beat too early (as a voice in the wilderness) singing the final AMEN in Mathias' "Let the people praise thee" when he conducted at All Saints during Lois' retirement Eucharist. So much for my ascent up the Anglican food chain...
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