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50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118 San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music presents: Tim Rayborn and Phoebe Jevtovic perform a short program of medieval Spanish, Italian, and French music as part of Chamber Music Day at the De Young Museum. For further information:
(415) 710-0551
Built on the site of a Roman basilica and restored over a dozen centuries, Notre Dame long reigned in splendor as the cultural, intellectual, religious, and economic center of Paris, the most powerful city in northern Europe during the Middle Ages. The cathedral’s powerful towers, grand gargoyles, flying buttresses and soaring interior represent amazing achievements in medieval Gothic architecture. Its magnificent stained glass, sumptuous art, and glorious music have inspired awe and creative expression throughout the ages.
On November 5th, at 1:30 PM, Tim will present a lecture and performance, Tim explores the rise of secular culture in mid-thirteenth-century Paris and the conflicts with religious organizations that followed from it. He focuses on the arguments between the secular masters and the mendicant orders at the University of Paris, and how this debate found its way into the secular music and poetry of the time. He will present examples of this poetry and music, performed with medieval instruments, and show how anti-clericalism became an important part of medieval French artistic culture, despite the inherent dangers of angering Church authorities. For further information: http://www.humanitieswest.org/upcoming.html
Sunday, November 13th, 2011, 3:00 PM. St. Luke's, MusicSources presents: Choreomania: Music for the Dancing Plagues of Medieval and Renaissance Europe Cançonièr presents music for a fascinating and little-understood phenomenon: during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, certain areas (especially in Germany) experienced brief outbreaks of manic, “contagious” dancing that often afflicted dozens, or even hundreds. Otherwise ordinary people would succumb to a compulsion to dance furiously for days or weeks on end, some to their deaths. Many feared that they had been cursed by saints, and perhaps gave in to mass hysteria; the true causes are still debated. Music was offered for the dancers in the hope that it would ease their suffering, or appease divine wrath. Instrumental and vocal dance music, flagellant songs, penitential prayers, tarantellas, and more! With our special guest, Tom Zajac. Tom is a master multi-instrumentalist famed for his work with the Renaissance wind band Piffaro, as well as several other excellent early music groups. We are delighted to have him join us for both of our concerts this season!
MusicSources presents: Lycanthropos: The Werewolf in Story and Song Tim Rayborn presents an eerie look into the enduring legend of werewolves, a belief which evoked fear from the Balkans to Ireland. He will perform ancient, medieval, and Renaissance tales of shape-shifters, from the Lai of Bisclaveret by Marie de France (late 12th c.) to the Scandinavian Volsunga Saga. He will recount legends of the Balkan varcolac, the French loup-garou, Dionysian Maenads, and Ovidian shape-shifters.
(510) 528-1685
Arizona Early Music Society presents: The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula Cançonièr performs its acclaimed Dracula program in Tucson. For further information:
Sunday, March 11th, 4:00 PM. St. Alban's Episcopal Church, MusicSources presents: The Blood Countess: Music from the Time of Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) Cançonièr offers a perfect complement to its acclaimed Black Dragon program: music from the age of the infamous “blood countess,” Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian noblewoman accused of all manner of crimes, the most infamous of which was bathing in the blood of murdered servants and peasants in the belief that this would keep her eternally young. The truth is unclear, and there is evidence that she was innocent of many of the atrocities of which she was accused, but her ghastly legend has endured through the centuries, rivaling that of Vlad Dracula. Music of the Habsburg Court, songs of Sebestyan Tinodi, Balkan and Romany folk songs, Ottoman pieces, and Italian music of the Bathory Court. With special guest, Tom Zajac.
(510) 528-1685
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