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URL:https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/events/early-music-missouri-presents
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SUMMARY:East Central College presents Early Music Missouri performing “Da
 rkness in Paris: Tenebrae Lessons by Charpentier and Clérambault"
DESCRIPTION:East Central College Department of Music again welcomes Early M
 usic Missouri to perform a concert of intimate and moving French vocal mus
 ic for the Lenten season by two 17th-century French masters. This concert 
 feature some of the finest Baroque Tenebrae Lessons by Marc-Antoine Charpe
 ntier and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault\, sung by a trio of sopranos (Arianna
  Aerie\, Samantha Arten\, and Olivia Roland) accompanied by period instrum
 ents (Sarah Bereza\, chamber organ\; Stephanie Hunt\, viola da gamba\; and
  Jeffrey Noonan\, theorbo).\n\nThe Tenebrae services\, held on the Thursda
 y\, 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 of all Daily Office
  services\, the Tenebrae services feature lessons taken from the biblical 
 book of Lamentations: songs of grief and sorrow composed after the destruc
 tion of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. From the fifteenth century\, as earl
 y as Guillaume Du Fay\, Renaissance composers ornamented the Lamentation p
 lainchants with polyphonic settings in the motet style\, some simple and g
 raceful and other stunningly elaborate. Nowhere was the genre more cultiva
 ted than in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France\, where the leçons
  de ténèbres took root and continued to develop as a genre. Highly melis
 matic\, deeply chromatic\, poignantly dissonant\, and distinctly French Ba
 roque in style\, these Tenebrae lessons offer scope for tremendous express
 ion and drama.\n\nThis concert features two Leçons de ténèbres by Marc-
 Antoine Charpentier as well as Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s extended mot
 et Miserere mei\, Deus\, a highly operatic setting of the penitential Psal
 m 50 for three sopranos. The performance also includes solos for theorbo a
 nd chamber organ by Robert de Viseé and François Couperin.\n\nThis free 
 concert will be held in the John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center on th
 e campus of East Central College (1964 Prairie Dell Road\, Union\, MO 630
 84) in Hansen Hall (HH105). Parking adjacent the concert hall is free. Res
 erved parking\, elevators and ramps are available for anyone needing speci
 al accommodations.\n\nEarly Music Missouri is the region's foremost promot
 er and presenter of Early Music concerts. Its performances feature Medieva
 l\, Renaissance and Baroque repertoire performed on period instruments by 
 expert performers from the region and nation. For more information\, visit
  earlymusicmissouri.net.
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CATEGORIES:Concerts
LOCATION:East Central College\, 1964 Prairie Dell Road\, Union\, MO\, 63084
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