Date/Time
Date(s) - 30 Mar 2013
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
The Cloisters
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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!
Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 1 and 3 p.m. $45
Pomerium
Passion and Resurrection Motets of the Renaissance
Pomerium returns to The Cloisters for an exploration of the great Renaissance choral music for Passiontide and Easter. The program progresses from Palm Sunday to Easter Day, with emphasis on music for Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Stylistically, the progression leads from chant to its elaborations by Du Fay and Senfl, to the increasingly grand and expressive motets of Lassus, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and Byrd. Expressively, the program moves from the fervent and austere music associated with the Crucifixion to the splendid celebrations of the Resurrection.
Pomerium was founded by Alexander Blachly in New York in 1972 to perform music composed for the famed chapel choirs of the Renaissance. Its name—“garden” or “orchard” in medieval Latin—derives from the title of a treatise by the 14th-century music theorist Marchetto da Padova, who explained that his book contained the “fruits and flowers” of the art of music. Widely known for its interpretations of Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Palestrina, and Lassus, Pomerium has appeared at many important venues and festivals, including the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, Germany; The Flanders Festival in Antwerp; and Music Before 1800 in New York. Pomerium has released four CDs for Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv, including A Musical Book of Hours and Creator of the Stars: Christmas Music from Earlier Times. The group is recording a CD series for Glissando of the masterpieces of Renaissance a cappella choral music, the most recent of which are Musica Vaticana: Music from the Vatican Manuscripts (1503–1534), Carolus Maximus: Music in the Life of Charles V (1500–1558), and Josquin Desprez: Missa Hercules dux Ferrarie, Motets and Chansons.
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.