Queen of Heaven: Polychoral music for Mary - a workshop day for North East Early Music Forum

Name: Queen of Heaven: Polychoral music for Mary - a workshop day for North East Early Music Forum
Start: 2025-01-25T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-25T16:30:00+00:00
Location: St Francis High Heaton

Schedule

Sat Jan 25 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Francis High Heaton | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

* A workshop for singers and instruments *
* for the North East Early Music Forum *
What better antidote to the gloom of late January than a day of lavish motets for the Virgin Mary? With this day of music for voices and instruments, David Allinson explores some of the sunniest music of the Renaissance: settings of texts such as Regina Cæli and Ave Maria.
The final programme is dependent upon the forces signing up, but we expect to include motets and anti- phons by composers including Victoria, Guerrero, Alonso Lobo – and the criminally underrated Giovanni Croce. Many of these motets are richly scored for double choir: some of their texts draw upon the romantic poetry of the Song of Songs, inspiring composers to mystical heights as they honour the Mother of God.
Advance booking required: £18; concessions £9 (people aged ≤26 or on a very low income e.g. solely dependent on state benefits). Students free.
https://neemf.weebly.com/neemf-workshop-diary.html