Medieval Women's Choir 2007-2008 Concert Season
MWC's 18th season promises exceptional variety, as the choir presents favorite carols and composers from 15th-century England (Nowel syng we), rarely heard Jewish music from the Middle Ages, and an original production about 12th-century lovers Heloise and Abelard. Please join us!
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Single Concerts
Nowel syng we: An English Christmas
Saturday, December 15, 2007, 8 PM St. James Cathedral, 804 9th Avenue, Seattle
Guest conductor Nancy Zylstra led the choir, with soloists Ann Glusker, Marian Seibert, and Stacey Sunde, in a program of 15th-century English music: celebratory carols with their intricate rhythms, punctuated by the lush harmonies of Lionel Power and John Dunstable, the two most famous English composers of the period.
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Program Notes
Guest Conductor
Medieval Jewish Music
Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8 PM & Sunday, March 9, 2008, 3 PM Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th Street, Seattle
This rarely heard repertoire-which at one point co-existed with, and influenced, Western tradition-has left few but tantalizing traces. Margriet Tindemans, with singer/instrumentalist Shira Kammen, soloist Linda Strandberg, and the choir, presented Sephardic romances, works by the 14th-century Matteo le Juif, Hebrew psalms, and compositions by the 13th-century King Alfonso X of Spain, at whose court Jews, Christians, and Muslims worked and lived together.
Concert SOLD OUT
Program Notes
Heloise & Abelard
Friday, May 16, 2008, 8 PM Town Hall, 8th Avenue & Seneca Street, Seattle
A fresh look at these most famous 12th-century lovers, a bright young French woman and her Breton teacher-philosopher, often at odds with the authorities. The program, with script by Judith Suther, will include excerpts from the letters they exchanged, songs Abelard wrote for Heloise's convent and two of his laments, as well as secular songs, and settings of Abelard's poems by director Margriet Tindemans. Soloists Anne Azéma and Eric Mentzel in the title roles, and instrumentalists Ronnee Fullerton and Bill McJohn, join the choir.