Steinbach concertizes and teaches frequently throughout the United States and Europe. Mark Steinbach is University Organist, Curator of Instruments, and Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Music at Brown University, where he teaches applied organ and seminars on topics such as historic performance practices and Olivier Messiaen. Jodry has served as Music Director at the First Unitarian Church of Providence. He has led the Brown Chorus throughout New England, and has toured with them on five continents. Since 1991 he has been Director of Choral Activities at Brown University, where he is also an instructor in music theory and history. Jodry has appeared with the Providence Singers, the RI Civic Chorale, Boston Cecilia, the Boston Camerata, Musique Ancienne de Montreal, and at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute under Gustav Leonhardt. During the past thirty years, the group has presented concerts throughout New England, and has frequently been heard at the Boston Early Music Festivals. Jodry founded the Schola Cantorum of Boston, a twelve-voice ensemble dedicated to the performance of Renaissance sacred music. He continued at NEC, being awarded a Master’s degree in the Performance of Early Music in 1987 and was an organ pupil of William Porter. Upon graduation, he was awarded the prestigious Chadwick Medal, given each year to the most promising graduate who shows distinction both in musical performance and academic excellence. Frederick Jodry holds the Bachelor’s degree in Organ Performance from New England Conservatory where he studied organ with Yuko Hayashi and conducting with Lorna Cooke de Varon and Donald Teeters. In 1979, the Chorus was the first American collegiate performing group to tour China, and in 1976 the group spent one month in India singing in India for Prime Minister Indira Ghandi and Mother Teresa. The chorus also enjoyed touring through Iberia, Greece, Israel and Egypt, the USSR and Scandinavia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Previous trips include concert tours of Vienna and Prague, Argentina and Uruguay, Russia and Finland, and Italy. Under the 30-year tenure of Frederick Jodry, the Choir has toured extensively, most recently on a 2019 tour to Ireland, a 2017 tour of Croatia, and a 2015 concert tour of Cuba, adding to their already impressive legacy as University ambassadors. As well as performing regularly in Providence and New England, the choir has earned an international reputation over the past 30 years for the quality of its performances. The Brown University Chorus, 50 dedicated singers drawn from all concentrations within the University, is one of the oldest groups on campus. When a strong-armed man guards his palaceīut any kingdom that is divided amongst itself will be laid waste, Wenn ein starker Gewappneter seinen Palast bewahret,Īber: ein jeglich Reich, so es mit ihm selbst uneins wird, das wird wüste Ah, thou false world, thou art not true,ģ. Thou who art keeping mercy for thousands,Īnd transgression and sin, and iniquity forgiving,Īnd that will by no means the guilty clear:Ģ. Und vergibst Missetat, Übertretung und Sünde,Īll merciful and gracious and longsuffering, Ich aber ebin elend, und mir ist wehe Herr Gott, What do you want to worry about from day to day? Laß dich nur nichts nicht dauren mit Trauren, That I didn’t notice the rain, and became completely drenched.
So absorbed I became on that day whole I watched She considers herself lucky who can run the fastest. One leaves behind what she has gathered, and another retrieves it Tal ciò c’ha tolto, lascia, e tal percote. I hear something, and I don’t know what it is We stay too long - for the sky grows dark When I spied some maidens gathering flowers