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10 Mar

2013

Concert: Sacred Song 1500 – 1650

Posted by Stuart Chessman 

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Yesterday evening St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, was the site of a remarkable performance of sacred music from the Renaissance and early Baroque by Elizabeth Baber Weaver, soprano, and Charles Weaver, lute. The music was appropriate for the season of Lent and Passiontide, including Josquin’s Stabat Mater, Timor et Tremor of Lassus, Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla Nanna of Merula and the Pianto della Madonna of Monteverdi. It was a remarkable tour through the repetoire written for (or adapted to ) lute and solo voice, and at the same time a concise lesson in musical history. The concert was a benefit performance of the St Cecelia Society, which sponsors the musical program of St. Mary’s (Charles Weaver sings in the schola of St. Mary’s at the 9:30 Solemn Traditional Mass every Sunday). We hope the success of this concert will inspire many more lovers of music and of the liturgy to contribute to that Society!

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A lute…

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..and a theorbo.

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David Hughes, director of Music at St. Mary’s.

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