The Madrigal Festival is an annual event at Rutgers-Camden, which brings selected groups of students from area high schools together to perform Madrigal music and dance. Madrigals, complex polyphonic vocal pieces of the 16th and 17th centuries, have become quite popular in the our region, explains Dr. Julianne Baird, who organized the first regional Madrigal Festival in Fall 1999 to place the resources of Rutgers University at the disposal of area high school Madrigal Groups.

This year's Madrigal Groups came from four South Jersey high schools, Moorestown, Haddonfield, Cherry Hill East and West Windsor-Plainsboro North. The young singers, chosen from among larger choruses at their schools, bring particular dedication to the music, which usually is more challenging to learn and sing than conventional choir pieces.

One of the highlights of each year's Madrigal Festival is a performance by Julianne Baird. This year's recital was titled Crazy for Love and Music, featuring Julianne Baird, Karen Flint, Ed Mauger and Jessica Peyton.

   
 

Crazy for Love and Music:
Also gin, money, food, politics and laundry
(featuring Mad Songs by Henry Purcell with diary accounts from Bedlam)

The "mad songs" were inspired by 17th and 18th century nobility's voyeuristic relationship with Bedlam, London's public insane asylum. Not only did renowned composers such as Henry Purcell, John Eccles and John Blow turn their talents to the composition of "mad songs" but the concept of madness caught the fancy of popular songwriters and authors. Authors, such as Jonathan Swift of Gulliver's Travels and Tale of a Tub, turned this fascination with madness into enduring literary art treasures. Readings were taken from Ned Ward's The London Spy, Daniel Purcell's Letter on Music, Thomas D'Urfey's Music Commended and Scraping Ridiculed, and Deprote's Nightmares and Hobbyhorses.


Julianne Baird, soprano
with
Karen Flint, harpsichord
Edward Mauger, narrator
Jessica Peyton, violin

To view selections from the Crazy for Love and Music recital, click here.
   
 
 
High School Madrigal Performances
 

Moorestown High School
Moorestown, New Jersey


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Jeanne Haynes
Director
Moorestown Madrigals

2002 Program

Come to the Music - Martin
Ave Maria - Bruckner
Sigh No More Ladies - Larkin *
Cantate Medley - Pitoni/Clausen
You Stole My Love - MacFarren

Selections from the 2002 Program (3:51min)
Fire, Fire (2:52 min) - Selection from the 2001 Program

Moorestown High School Madrigal Singers:
Michaela Anthony, Natalie Barbarese, Todd Bigley, Corinne Bostic, Kourtney Burris, Ryan DeLaney, Robert Ellison, Laura Esche, Daniel Greenwood, Karinne Hovnanian, Bradley Kenney, Emily Kuder, * Brian Maley, Jacqueline Marmo, Elizabeth Marmo, Peter Noel, Norman Payne, IV, Rachel Pinkstone, Kori Shelden, David Toniatti, Alexander Tuttle, Emily Weitzel, Laura Wilkinson * *
* Student conductors, 2002-2003


Haddonfield Memorial High School
Haddonfield, New Jersey

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Paula Meyer
Director
Haddonfield Madrigals

2002 Program

Amor Vittorioso - Gastoldi
Weep, O Mine Eyes - Bennet
Gaudete - Traditional, arr. Kay (boys)
Four Arms, Two Necks, One Wreathing - Morley (girls, choreographed)
A Little Pretty Bonny Lass - Farmer

Selections from the 2002 Program (4:59 min)
Rest, Sweet Nymphs (2:56 min) - Selection from the 2001 Program

Moorestown High School Madrigal Singers:
Jean Bentley, Abby Booker, Missy Conley, Maura Connell, Elyse Coyle, Chelsea Dalsey, Jennifer Krystek, Laura Macier, Margaret MacGibeny, Carolyn Scott, Stephanie Scott. David Beiler, David Caulk, Ben Coleman, Joe Goldberg, Tim Green, Tom Hagner, Cale Krise, Alex Podgor, Phil Saynisch, Brendan Stuart.


West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
Plainsboro, New Jersey

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Mary Jacobsen
Director, West Windsor- Plainsboro North Madrigals

2002 Program

Fair Phyllis - John Farmer
O, Mistress Mine - Gyorgy Orban
I vostr' acuti dardi - Philippe Verdelot
Fa una canzona - Orazio Vecchi

Selections from the 2002 Program (4:07 min)

West Windsor-Plainsboro North High School Madrigal Singers:
Eden Casalino, John Fang, Mark Fields, Gillian Fruh, Vanessa Gibens, Elizabeth Johnston, Asami Kondo, Tim Nowak, Eric Paulsen, Eugenia Shneyder, David Singh, Gianni Simplicio, Kara Smith, Jozal Waroich, Evan Wisser


Cherry Hill East High School
Cherry Hill, New Jersey


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Laurie Lausi
Director
Cherry Hill Madrigals

2002 Program

Glad We Be This Day - Phyllis Farmer
Tutto Lo Di Mi Dici "Canta" (Day after day they all say "sing") - Orlando di Lasso
Weep, O Mine Eyes - John Bennet
Fair Phyllis I Saw - John Farmer
Greensleeves (Trad. English, arr) - Bob Chilcott
Thirty Second Fa-La-La - Donald Moore

Selections from the 2002 Program (4:55 min)

Welcome Sweet Pleasure (1:34min) - Selection from the 2001 Program

Cherry Hill East High School Madrigal Singers:
Jeremy Bannett, Brian Cabalo, Shirley Fan, Rachel Karpf, Rohini Khillan, Susan Ko, Dan Kober, Beth Martino, Kim Pajdak, Danny Rose, Amanda Ross, Amber Shernoff, RJ Weaver, Claire Wesley, Debra Winter, Kyle Wislocky, Mo Wei Yang

NOTE: The Cherry Hill East Madrigals received Her Majesty’s Highest Accolades in an Oct. 8, 2002 competition at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. Laurie Lausi, vocal music director at East, directs the group. East drama students placed second in an acting competition at the Faire.
 

Madrigal Festival 2002 SCHEDULE
Wednesday, November 13, 2002

WHEN
WHO
WHAT
WHERE
8:15 - 8:45am All Participants Breakfast Lobby of the Fine Arts Building
8:45 am All Participants Welcome Gordon Theater
9:00 - 9:40am West Windsor-Plainsboro North and Cherry Hill East Renaissance Dance
(with Eva Brothers)		 Black Box
9:45- 10:25 Haddonfield and Moorestown Renaissance Dance
(with Eva Brothers)		 Black Box
9:00 - 9:40 am Haddonfield Reviews of choreographed Madrigal
(with Bob Skiba)		 Gordon Theater
9:45- 10:25 Moorestown Reviews of choreographed Madrigal
(with Bob Skiba)		 Gordon Theater
10:30- 11:10 West Windsor-Plainsboro North Reviews of choreographed Madrigal
(with Bob Skiba)		 Gordon Theater
11:15-12:00 Cherry Hill East Reviews of choreographed Madrigal
(with Bob Skiba)		 Gordon Theater
       
12:00 (noon) - 12:40 pm Julianne Baird, Karen Flint, Jessica Peyton and Edward Mauger

Concert: Crazy for Love and Music: also gin, money, food, politics and laundry

 Gordon Theater
       
12:40- 1:05pm
Moorestown High School
Madrigal Performance
Gordon Theater
1:05 -1:30 pm

Haddonfield Memorial High School Madrigal Singers

Madrigal Performance
Gordon Theater
1:30 -1:55 pm
Cherry Hill East HS
Madrigal Performance
 Gordon Theater
2:00 -2:25 pm
North Plainsboro High School Madrigal Group
Madrigal Performance

 Gordon Theater
       
2:30 pm All Departure for Home Rutgers - Camden
       
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SUPPORT for the
2002 Madrigal Festival
has been provided by the
Rutgers Admissions Office, Dr. Deborah Bowles, Camden Director
Rutgers-Camden Fine Arts Department
Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts

Thanks to Dr. Jon'a Meyer and Monika Wood for video taping this event and
to Dr. Robert Wood for editing the streaming videos.

The Rutgers-Camden 2002 Madrigal Festival was featured
on Channel 10 News and KYW 1060 Radio.

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Last updated July 11, 2007