BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Camerata presents "Seeing Double: Music for Two Choirs" Sunday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center.
Directed by Jonathan Harvey, the chamber choir will perform "Great Service" by William Byrd and Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
"Our program is all about dialogue, on multiple levels," Harvey said in a news release. "First, physically, as both works are composed for double choir, meaning that there are two distinct vocal ensembles on stage singing back and forth to each other. Hence the 'Seeing Double' program title."
A more metaphorical dialogue is the conversation between the two composers, he says, "as Byrd 'speaks' from the late 16th century and Vaughan Williams 'responds' from the early 20th century."
Harvey points out Byrd was the most powerful and influential British musician of his time, his influence echoing through centuries, and Vaughan Williams consciously wrote the Mass in G minor as an homage to the music of Byrd and his Renaissance-era colleagues.
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door; youth admission is $10 with those under 12 free. Tickets are available online at bmcvt.org, by calling the BMC at 802-257-4523, or emailing info@bmcvt.org.
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