Date/Time
Date(s) - 21 Apr 2013
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
The Cloisters
Category(ies) No Categories
Concerts at The Cloisters continues its 2012-2013 season
with three exciting programs in March and April.
Join us as we celebrate our 75th anniversary year!
Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 1 and 3 p.m. $75
Pomerium and Guests
Music for Mary Tudor, Triumphant Catholic Queen
Concluding the 2013 Cloisters Anniversary series and in honor of the 40th anniversary of the a cappella ensemble Pomerium, current and past members of the group will perform a concert featuring grand choral works from the court of Mary Tudor, Catholic Queen of England (1553–1558). The program of large-scale works by Christopher Tye, Robert White, Robert Parsons, and Thomas Tallis will conclude when 40 vocalists line the walls of the Fuentidueña Chapel to perform the massive Spem in alium, scored for eight 5-voice choirs. Long thought to be a work written for Queen Elizabeth I, Tallis’s Spem in alium has recently been reassigned to the reign of her sister Mary, who commissioned sacred music of unprecedented grandeur and complexity to highlight England’s short-lived return to Catholicism.
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Concerts at The Cloisters is an early music series presented by the Education Office of The Cloisters, with an aim to complement the collection of medieval art and architecture at The Cloisters through vocal, instrumental, and dramatic music of western and central Europe from the 9th through the early 16th century. Performances are held in the Fuentidueña Chapel, its stage set in the 12th-century apse from the church of San Martín in Fuentidueña in the Spanish province of Segovia.
Concert tickets include same-day admission to the Museum. All tickets are for general seating. To purchase tickets, or for further information, call (212) 650-2290 or visit our website at www.metmuseum.org.
A discounted student price is offered for tickets bought at the door on the day of the concert. Please present your current student ID. Availability is limited.
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Concerts at The Cloisters
Fort Tryon Park
New York, NY 10040
The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.