Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players Spring Concert: A Garden of Divers Delytes
Event Ended- Where
- St. Stephen’s Anglican Church - 1121 14 Ave SW, Calgary, AB View Map
- When
- Price
- $25 Regular Buy Tickets
- Ages
- All
- Website
- https://www.renaissance-singers.com/
- Contact
- cathy121@shaw.ca 4032831074 (Cathy Ascroft)
Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players presents their spring concert on May 7, 2023.
This “divers(e)” program brings together works from Renaissance and modern periods, and from both European and Indigenous cultures. In the Indigenous tradition, special guest Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes will perform a Welcome Song. Our concert will feature several pieces by Canadian Cree composer, Andrew Balfour, with music by Renaissance/Baroque composers (Gibbons and Purcell) and new Cree texts. Selections from the early music repertoire will include beloved works such as Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus and Tallis’ If Ye Love me.
You will also be introduced to the obscure and innovative English early Baroque composer, George Jeffreys (c.1610-1685). Organist Jim Picken will join the choir to perform Jeffreys’ He Beheld the City. And because 2023 is the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, there will be a madrigal by each of them for this concert. Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players are delighted to present original compositions by CRSP Artistic Directors, past and present: Anthony Petti, Peter Togni, Jane Perry and Paul Grindlay.