Santa Cruz Baroque Festival presents: In A Medieval Garden
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Feb 1, 2020 7:30pm-10pm
Location
Holy Cross Church
126 High St
Details
In A Medieval Garden is the first concert in the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival's 47th season. The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival presents early classical music as it would have sounded in its own time - seize this once-in-a-lifetime chance to time-travel from the comfort of your seat!
ABOUT THIS CONCERT: The roots of our beloved classical music spring from prehistory, from the primordial forest of sacred chant and sung poetry illuminated by an occasional star like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, the Twelfth Century mystic called The Sibyl of the Rhine. Visionary composers based in Nôtre Dame de Paris gave us intricately woven multi-part sacred music, while aristocratic troubadours and trouvères such as Guiot de Dijon, a Thirteenth Century Burgundian poet, sang of courtly love. A century later, Guillaume de Machaut, the last artist equally skilled in poetry and music, created a unique Gothic vocal architecture.
Vajra Voices – 5 singers, Medieval harp and bells,
Directed by Karen Clark, contralto
with Mary Springfels, vielle and citole
Hildegard of Bingen, Medieval French music (Trouvère Songs, Guillaume de Machaut)
Visit http://scbaroque.org/2020-season/ to see the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival's complete 2020 season.
