Singer

Nola Richardson (soprano), Clifton Massey (countertenor), Gregório Taniguchi (tenor) and Jesse Blumberg (baritone) join the Festival Orchestra and Chorus in Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, “Eternal Source of Light Divine” (Kathryn Adduci, baroque trumpet) and Purcell’s ode Welcome to All the Pleasures. Plus, instrumental selections from Purcell’s stage work Dioclesian, a Purcell In nomine for solo strings, and Handel’s celebrated Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 11 with its beautiful violin solos.

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Festival Finale: Handel and Purcell Odes

St. Mark Presbyterian Church

With additional support from the Departments of French and Italian, Comparative Literature, and The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program at UC Davis, Concordian Dawn brings life to a fourteenth-century French allegory, “Le Roman de Fauvel,” illuminating its relevance to modern audiences through a multimedia presentation of music, text, and art.

Concordian Dawn: ”le Roman De Fauvel”

Ann E. Pitzer Center

This Christmas concert transports the listener back to the Middle Ages, highlighting some of the most beautiful and rarely heard repertoire from the medieval holiday season. With the earliest surviving polyphonic mass compilation, Missa Tournai, as the concert’s centerpiece, Concordian Dawn offers a true holiday commemoration through medieval liturgy and carols.

Midtown Concerts presents Concordian Dawn

St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church - The Actors' Chapel

“Almost everything we might wish to know about the sound of medieval music is lost to us,” warns Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Through the double medium of discursive speculation and live performance, Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn set out in this lecture-performance not to know medieval song – we agree that is not possible – but to relive some of its affective realities, which we locate not in the objective worlds of time, place, or historical circumstance, but in dynamic interactions between body and world inflected by imagination. The sounds of this song are conjured not just by birds and fountains, but by celestial beasts and alluring sirens. Some of these sung texts represent the singing subject captivated by beauty, others struggling between life and death, others at the limits of a dream world, or ecstatic with joy.

Clifton Massey

Countertenor

Events

Past events

Jun 23, 2024

Festival Finale: Handel and Purcell Odes · Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar

Feb 16, 2024

Concordian Dawn: ”le Roman De Fauvel” · UC Davis Arts

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne by Handel

Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar

Singer in Welcome to All the Pleasures by Purcell

Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar

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