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2017-10-05 23:00:00
En Attendant - Mala Punica
En AttendantL'Art de la citation dans l'Italie des Visconti, 1380-1410Musico nell'autunno del medievoMala PunicaPedro Memelsdorff, Kees Boeke, Jill Feldman, et alArcana A2353:05 (flac and scans)Download......The program is enhanced by a fascinating note by Pedro Memelsdorff (the group's flutist) that explains the nature of the collection and its subtitle, "The Art of Citation in Visconti Italy." Fascination, of course, is the whole point of the Ars Subtilior. The art of citation involves the custom of beginning a text with "en attendant" ("waiting") followed by a motto, in Phillipot's case the heraldic motto of Bernabò Visconti, whose murder is lamented here. This and other works are quoted in Sus une fontayne, following Phillipot's quotation of text and music from a Machaut piece. The selections recorded here can furnish an interested listener with endless opportunities to explore the relations brought out in the notes. On the other hand, the music is enjoyable at first […]
2017-05-10 09:41:00
[…] funded by the revenue Google generates by harvesting and selling the personal data of users, as are 'free' services from Apple and Microsoft. In an age where the virtual is rapidly displacing the experiential, we must seek out and cherish real world experiences. As a small contribution to this I am now posting some notes on my recent listening and travelling. My recent listening has included Mala Punica which is composed by James Weeks and sets texts from the Song of Songs. In his introductory essay James Weeks explains that he was attracted to the ancient biblical text by "its mysterious ordering, the entangling of male and female voices, its echoes and symmetries..." The new music vocal ensemble Exaudi of which James Weeks is a co-founder has featured here in projects including John Cage's Songbooks and the infrasound-enhanced performance of Antoine […]
2015-06-05 16:41:20
Christ Church, Spitalfields, LondonWeeks and his eight-part choir bring extraordinary light and colour to the poetry of the biblical Song of SongsFor centuries, the erotic poetry of the biblical Song of Songs has attracted choral composers. Completed in 2009, James Weeks’s Mala Punica – which takes its title from the Latin text’s references to pomegranates – consists of eight settings for eight-part choir, each utilising canon as a structural device. In this Spitalfields Music Summer festival programme, it was performed by its originators, the choir Exaudi (which Weeks co-founded along with soprano Juliet Fraser in 2002) under the composer’s baton. Since its first full performance five years ago, Weeks has further added to the piece, framing and dividing it with instrumental movements scored for string and flute trios numbered Walled Garden I, II and III. In this premiere of this new version they were played by the Hortus Ensemble, also named […]
2014-03-01 23:16:50
[…] & the Alibis at Hank’s where all hell originally broke loose when they got started. 3/1, 11 PM Florida band Roadkill Ghost Choir – who play a more rocking take on haunting Nashville gothic sounds – at the Knitting Factory, $10 adv tix rec 3/2, 3 PM the NJ Symphony Orchestra plays the Grieg Piano Concerto plus Sibelius’ Spring Song and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 at NJPAC in Newark, $20 seats avail. 3/2, 4 PM Mala Punica perform motets by the intricate 14th-century Franco-Flemish composer Johannes Ciconia at Corpus Christi Church , 529 W 121st St., $10 tix avail. 3/2, 4 PM violinist Akiko Kobayashi and pianist Eric Siepkes perform works from Beethoven to Bartok at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-6′s admitted. 3/2, 7:30 PM bassist Patrick Derivaz and violinist Cornelius Dufallo join with violist Martha Mooke for a set of atmospheric soundscapes at […]
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