BRATTLEBORO-Tessitura, directed by Mark Nelson, is a chamber choir that explores music of the Baroque and Modern eras. This concert features “Music of Monteverdi and Poulenc,” Sunday, March 22, at 3:30 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC), 72 Blanche Moyse way.
Claudio Monteverdi and Francis Poulenc, despite their living in different eras, “are linked through the evolution of choral and sacred music,” wrote event promoters in a news release. “Poulenc found inspiration in Monteverdi’s works to develop his own a cappella style.”
The concert will include Monteverdi’s “Lamento d’Arianna,” Louis Andriessen’s “Un beau baiser,” Poulenc’s “Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence,” Fenno Heath’s “Kyrie,” from Mass, and Eric Whitacre’s “Sleep.”
Nelson explains Monteverdi’s “Lamento d’Arianna” is the only surviving fragment of the composer’s second opera, Arianna, which marked his launching of le nuove musiche, or “new music.”
Poulenc’s “Quatre Motets” has “daring harmonies with a profound Catholic piety,” organizers wrote. As Nelson says, “In Poulenc, there is something of the monk and something of the rascal.”
Tickets are $20 for advance general admission, $25 at the door and are available at bmcvt.org, 802-257-4523, and info@bmcvt.org.
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