University Choir & The City Musick at Central Hall, Campus West, York on Saturday 18th March 2023

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

University Choir & The City Musick

Add to my Calendar 18-03-2023 19:30 18-03-2023 21:30 36 University Choir & The City Musick   Featuring the exotic wind and brass instruments of The City Musick, this most unusual event presents multi-choir works from the 'Colossal Baroque' of seventeenth-century Rome: four-choir music by Benevoli (with four more doubling choirs!), his Venetian teacher Ugolini and others. The music features a curious technique called 'reining in the donkey' in which lower parts move hastily underneath a static soprano line, supposedly like a priest sitting on and trying to hold back a frenetic donkey (think 'King of Kings' in the Halleluiah chorus). Central Hall, Campus West, York DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Central Hall, Campus West
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
England

Saturday 18th March 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Orazio Benevoli – Missa Si Deus pro nobis

Performers

Robert Hollingworth – Conductor

University Choir
The 24
The City Musick

Programme Note

Featuring the exotic wind and brass instruments of The City Musick, this most unusual event presents multi-choir works from the 'Colossal Baroque' of seventeenth-century Rome: four-choir music by Benevoli (with four more doubling choirs!), his Venetian teacher Ugolini and others. The music features a curious technique called 'reining in the donkey' in which lower parts move hastily underneath a static soprano line, supposedly like a priest sitting on and trying to hold back a frenetic donkey (think 'King of Kings' in the Halleluiah chorus).

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