BRATTLEBORO-The vocal ensemble Brattleboro Camerata presents the music of Arvo Pärt and Johannes Ockeghem in a program titled “White Light Which Contains All Colors,” Sunday, April 19, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way.
The Brattleboro Camerata is “devoted to exploring the beauty and power of Renaissance-era and Renaissance-inspired music” according to their promotional materials.
They will perform Ockeghem’s “Ave Maria” and “Salve Regina” and Pärt’s “Magnificat,” “Nunc dimittis,” and “Missa syllabica.”
“Our featured composers are separated by centuries, and their work can sound otherworldly and distant from the sounds of modern music,” Music Director Jonathan Harvey explains. “That sense opens a space for a deeply mystical, awe-inspiring, and meditative listening experience. Pärt once wrote, ‘I could compare my music to white light which contains all colors. Only a prism can divide the colors and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.’”
Harvey said the Camerata’s program takes that idea “as its starting point, with music of striking starkness or severity that nonetheless has the power to unlock a profound kaleidoscope of feelings in listeners and performers.”
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door and are available at bmcvt.org, 802-257-4523, and info@bmcvt.org.
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