Join Concordian Dawn for a festive concert, drawing on primary source material and focusing on socio-philosophical similarities between texts from centuries ago and the mindset of modern society. In doing so, the ensemble produces a musical experience accessible to contemporary audiences, relating the human condition of the past to the familiar experiences of the present.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

In anticipation of our soon-to-be released album, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera, Concordian Dawn is excited for you to join us for this pre-release celebration! We will perform selections from the album alongside some new material we've worked up for the coming season.

The Church of St. Luke in the Fields

“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.

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Dec 21, 2023

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Oct 2, 2023

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