Concert on Saturday

[Syrimis, George]

Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble: Renaissance Encounters: Greek East and Latin West

The concert program explores the musical results of two kinds of encounters between Greeks and Latins during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The first half of the concert is concerned with real encounters, offering musical witnesses to the complex patterns of cultural, ecclesiastical, economic and political overlap in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Crusades. Its second half surveys the similarly broad range of music composed by Renaissance composers seeking to recover and adapt for their own purposes the musical legacy of Classical Hellenism.  The Renaissance was fed by encounters, both real and imagined, between Western Europeans and Greeks. Hear how Byzantine and Latin musicians of the 15th and 16th centuries captured these cultural meetings in music. Cappella Romana is a vocal chamber ensemble dedicated to combining passion with scholarship in its exploration of the musical traditions of the Christian East and West, with emphasis on early and contemporary music. For additional information see http://www.cappellaromana.org/

Saturday, November 14, 7:30 PM
Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange Street (corner of Wall St.), New Haven

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Cosponsored by the Hellenic Studies Program and the Yale Institute for Sacred Music. The activities of the Hellenic Studies Program are funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Hellenic Studies at Yale University