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Friday, October 11, 2019
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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https://glencairnmuseum.org/upcoming-events/2019/10/11/concert-les-canards-chantants
Renowned early-music vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants presents a concert exploring the “Song of Songs: joie de vivre in 16th-century Munich,” in Glencairn Museum’s Great Hall.
The group performs passionate settings of the Song of Songs by Renaissance composers Senfl, Lechner and Lassus, intermingled with madrigals, chansons and lieder in “a spread of music to satiate both the spirit and the flesh,” according to Robin Bier, one of the group’s co-directors.
“Despite living in a time where in certain circles the act of composing madrigals could get you fired from your church job, it seems that few composers could resist the temptation. Ludwig Senfl, Leonhardt Lechner, Orlande de Lassus and Johannes Eccard, who rubbed shoulders as teachers, students and colleagues in Munich over the course of the sixteenth century, all brought forth songs in celebration of the triple muse of love, music, and alcohol with such alacrity and stylistic abandon that it is not always clear whether the subject is divine or earthly in nature.”
Highlights of the evening’s program include “Das Hohelied Salomonis” by Lechner, “Tota pulchra es” and “Ach Elslein, liebes Elslein mein” by Senfl, “Veni dilecte mi” and “La terre, les eaux va buvant” by Lassus and “Gut singer und ein Organist” by Eccard.
Doors open at 7pm. $20, $15 Basic Members/Srs/Students w ID, Free for higher membership levels. Advance tickets available through 10/9; after 10/9, only at the door. Reserved seats for Patron Members only: call 257-502-2990.
The group performs passionate settings of the Song of Songs by Renaissance composers Senfl, Lechner and Lassus, intermingled with madrigals, chansons and lieder in “a spread of music to satiate both the spirit and the flesh,” according to Robin Bier, one of the group’s co-directors.
“Despite living in a time where in certain circles the act of composing madrigals could get you fired from your church job, it seems that few composers could resist the temptation. Ludwig Senfl, Leonhardt Lechner, Orlande de Lassus and Johannes Eccard, who rubbed shoulders as teachers, students and colleagues in Munich over the course of the sixteenth century, all brought forth songs in celebration of the triple muse of love, music, and alcohol with such alacrity and stylistic abandon that it is not always clear whether the subject is divine or earthly in nature.”
Highlights of the evening’s program include “Das Hohelied Salomonis” by Lechner, “Tota pulchra es” and “Ach Elslein, liebes Elslein mein” by Senfl, “Veni dilecte mi” and “La terre, les eaux va buvant” by Lassus and “Gut singer und ein Organist” by Eccard.
Doors open at 7pm. $20, $15 Basic Members/Srs/Students w ID, Free for higher membership levels. Advance tickets available through 10/9; after 10/9, only at the door. Reserved seats for Patron Members only: call 257-502-2990.
