SACRED MUSIC IN A SACRED SPACEBy Joseph Romero
NEW YORK, 11 FEBRUARY 2008
Three a cappella masterpieces will be presented on Wednesday evening 13 February at the of Saint Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan. Now in its nineteenth season, and blessed with splendid acoustics and the Mander pipe organ (1993), the sometimes confidential, but chic concert series at the Park Avenue Jesuit church offers a broad range of organ repertoire and sacred works, from Renaissance masses and oratorio masterworks to premieres by living composers.
Wednesday evening's program at 8:00 pm:
Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 1592) : Ecce Beatam Lucem
Little known today, Alessandro Striggio was an Italian lutenist, composer and diplomat of noble birth from Mantua who worked as the principal composer at the court of Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence from 1560 to 1574. Striggio's polychoral Renaissance motet for forty voices Ecce Beatam Lucem belongs to Striggio's Florentine period and was the inspiration for Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium .
Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983): The Lamentations of Jeremiah (1946)
Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera's dramatic three-part Lamentations of Jeremiah portrays the sorrow and grief over the fall of Jerusalem: O vos omnes, Ego vir videns and Recordare, Domine.
Alfred Schnittke (1934 - 1989) : Concerto for Choir
The Russian Jewish composer Alfred Schnittke's 1984/85 setting of words from The Book of Lamentations by the Armenian monk Grigor Narekatsi (951-1003) owes its inspiration to the Russian liturgical tradition and its use of the basso profundi . Entitled Concerto for Choir, the work is rarely heard and another reason why this concert is a welcome change from the usual Bach to Mahler fare at the major concert venues in New York.
The Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola was founded in 1851 and entrusted to the Jesuits in 1866.
Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola980 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10028 Concert Hot Line Tel: (1) 212 288 25 20
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space Concert Series Web Site
Wednesday evening's program at 8:00 pm:
Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 1592) : Ecce Beatam Lucem
Little known today, Alessandro Striggio was an Italian lutenist, composer and diplomat of noble birth from Mantua who worked as the principal composer at the court of Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence from 1560 to 1574. Striggio's polychoral Renaissance motet for forty voices Ecce Beatam Lucem belongs to Striggio's Florentine period and was the inspiration for Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium .
Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983): The Lamentations of Jeremiah (1946)
Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera's dramatic three-part Lamentations of Jeremiah portrays the sorrow and grief over the fall of Jerusalem: O vos omnes, Ego vir videns and Recordare, Domine.
Alfred Schnittke (1934 - 1989) : Concerto for Choir
The Russian Jewish composer Alfred Schnittke's 1984/85 setting of words from The Book of Lamentations by the Armenian monk Grigor Narekatsi (951-1003) owes its inspiration to the Russian liturgical tradition and its use of the basso profundi . Entitled Concerto for Choir, the work is rarely heard and another reason why this concert is a welcome change from the usual Bach to Mahler fare at the major concert venues in New York.
The Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola was founded in 1851 and entrusted to the Jesuits in 1866.
Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola980 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10028 Concert Hot Line Tel: (1) 212 288 25 20
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space Concert Series Web Site
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3 comments:
Thanks for this post.
I have just started a section on my website on Ignatian spirituality
http://www.liturgy.co.nz/spirituality/ignatian.html
and so I thought I would look around the web to see what else there is about Ignatius Loyola.
If you are interested in linking sites to my “Liturgy” www.liturgy.co.nz let me know (contact - bottom of each page)
Lenten blessings
Fr. Bosco,
You are now in the links page. I look forward to posting some of your good Ignatian finds.
JMJ
Joe
Thanks
I've linked back at
http://www.liturgy.co.nz/links/blogs.html
Blessings
AMDG
Bosco
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