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URL:https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/events/early-music-missouri-presents
 -darkness-in-paris-tenebrae-lessons-by-charpentier-and-clerambault-2/
SUMMARY:Early Music Missouri presents “Darkness in Paris: Tenebrae Lesson
 s by Charpentier and Clérambault"
DESCRIPTION:Early Music Missouri presents a concert of intimate and moving 
 French vocal music for the Lenten season by two 17th-century French master
 s. This concert feature some of the finest Baroque Tenebrae Lessons by Mar
 c-Antoine Charpentier and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault\, sung by a trio of s
 opranos (Arianna Aerie\, Samantha Arten\, and Olivia Roland) accompanied b
 y period instruments (Sarah Bereza\, chamber organ\; Stephanie Hunt\, viol
 a da gamba\; and Jeffrey Noonan\, theorbo).\n\nThe Tenebrae services\, hel
 d on the Thursday\, Friday\, and Saturday of Holy Week\, are a liturgical 
 chiaroscuro\, a play of shadow and light\, inviting reflection on Christ
 ’s suffering and death. In addition to the psalms\, a traditional part o
 f all Daily Office services\, the Tenebrae services feature lessons taken 
 from the biblical book of Lamentations: songs of grief and sorrow composed
  after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. From the fifteenth
  century\, as early as Guillaume Du Fay\, Renaissance composers ornamented
  the Lamentation plainchants with polyphonic settings in the motet style\,
  some simple and graceful and other stunningly elaborate. Nowhere was the 
 genre more cultivated than in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France\,
  where the leçons de ténèbres took root and continued to develop as a g
 enre. Highly melismatic\, deeply chromatic\, poignantly dissonant\, and di
 stinctly French Baroque in style\, these Tenebrae lessons offer scope for 
 tremendous expression and drama.\n\nThis concert features two Leçons de t
 énèbres by Marc-Antoine Charpentier along with Louis-Nicolas Clérambaul
 t’s extended motet Miserere mei\, Deus\, a highly operatic setting of th
 e penitential Psalm 50 for three sopranos. The performance includes solos 
 for theorbo and chamber organ by Robert de Viseé and François Couperin.\
 nEMMo's six-concert Mainstage Series takes place at St. Peter's Episcopal 
 Church in Ladue MO. The space offers an exquisite sound and a beautiful se
 tting for this music. Parking is free and both parking and the performance
  space are handicapped accessible.\nEarly Music Missouri is the region's f
 oremost promoter and presenter of Early Music concerts. Its performances f
 eature Medieval\, Renaissance and Baroque repertoire performed on period i
 nstruments by expert performers from the region and nation. For more infor
 mation\, visit earlymusicmissouri.net.
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LOCATION:St. Peter's Episcopal Church\, 110 North Warson Road\, St. Louis\,
  MO\, 63124\, United States
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