Glories of Rome, Splendors of Venice: Palestrina and Gabrieli

Name: Glories of Rome, Splendors of Venice: Palestrina and Gabrieli
Start: 2024-10-27T16:00:00-04:00
Location: St Mary's Church

Schedule

Sun Oct 27 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

St Mary's Church | Columbus, OH

With this grand program the ensemble explores and contrasts the music of two towering figures of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, active in the more musically conservative churches of Rome, and Giovanni Gabrieli, working in the musically forward-looking Basilica San Marco in Venice! The program has been thoughtfully curated for audiences to experience both the elegant beauty of traditional a cappella polyphony as would have been heard in Rome’s Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica as well as the emerging declamatory style of composition and performance as heard in Venice’s Basilica San Marco supported by instruments.
Ohio citizens are rarely afforded the opportunity to hear vocal ensemble concerts with cornetto, sackbuts, and gut strings as performed in the high Renaissance and early Baroque. Such a program is a first for the ensemble as it performs under its new banner, ProArteOHIO!
Preparing to attend this extraordinary musical event, note how the intertwining polyphony of the ‘Kyrie’ from Palestrina’s mass might be compared to the serene reverence, perfection, and flowing drapery of Michelangelo Pieta in Rome, while Gabrieli’s extended motet In ecclesiis reflects the opulence and exuberant civic pride of Venice’s byzantine ‘jewel box’, San Marco where the this motet was first heard.