Date/Time
Dec 15, 2013
3:00 pm
Location
Grace Episcopal Church
133 School St.
New Bedford, MA
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Tags
For all ages, Holiday
Sine Nomine choral ensemble welcomes Joseph Fort in his first season as artistic director as they present Scenes from the Nativity.
Fort writes “For the first concert in its twentieth-anniversary season, Sine Nomine visits one of the most famous scenes of all time—the Nativity. The group first sets the stage by way of medieval plainchant, Renaissance polyphony and twentieth-century minimalist music written for Advent, the preceding season of anticipation and expectation. In the second half, this growing restiveness gives way at last to elation at the birth: each of Poulenc’s beautiful Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël is paired with an earlier setting of the same text by the likes of Byrd, Palestrina and Victoria.”
A reception will follow each performance so audiences will have the opportunity to greet Mr. Fort.