Friday, July 23rd, 2010, 7:30 PM; Frank & Katrina Basile Theater at the Indiana History Center on the Downtown Canal, 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN, $22, $12
Indianapolis Early Music Festival presents:
The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula
Cançonièr performs its acclaimed program at this international festival. The CD of the program will be available for sale!
Music of the 15th century, during the reign of the infamous Vlad the Impaler, whose cruelty and tyrannical rule of Wallachia (modern-day southern Romania) shocked Europe. And yet, despite his fearsome reputation, he is still revered as a hero in Romania, who successfully resisted an Ottoman Turkish invasion.
This program includes a setting of Michel Beheim’s German poem about Vlad, music of the Byzantine court, German songs, Italian and French dances, Balkan folk songs, Turkish classical music, the Lamentation for the Fall of Constantinople by Guillaume Dufay, and other works.
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 8:00 PM; Eureka Opera House, 31 S. Main St., Eureka, Nevada, 89316
The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula
Cançonièr performs in the historic Opera House in Eureka, NV. More details soon.
(775) 237-6006
eurekaoperahouse@eurekanv.org
http://www.co.eureka.nv.us/opera/opera05.htm
Sunday, September 12th, 2010; Saint Joseph's Cultural Center, 410 South Church St. Grass Valley, CA 95945
The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula
Cançonièr performs at St. Joseph's, Grass Valley, CA. More details soon.
(530) 272-4725
http://www.saintjosephsculturalcenter.org
Saturday, November 6th, 2010, 7:30 PM, St. Alban's Church, 1501 Washington St., Albany, CA, $20, $15
MusicSources presents:
Il Canzoniere: Music from the Age of Petrarch
Cançonièr presents virtuosic music from 14th and 15th-century Italy, a time that saw the birth of a “New Art” in music, and the seeds of the Renaissance in poetry, literature, painting, and sculpture. Chief among poets was Francesco Petrarch (1304-74), scholar, the first poet laureate since Antiquity, and the Father of Humanism.
This concert explores the musical treasures of Petrarch’s world, including works by Landini, Jacopo da Bologna, and Ciconia, and also includes poetry from Petrarch’s collection, Il Canzoniere, “the Songbook.”
(510) 528-1685
info@musicsources.org
http://www.musicsources.org
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 8:00 PM; House Concert, 383 61st Street, Oakland, CA 94618 $15-20
Wisteria Ways presents:
The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula
Cançonièr performs the Dracula program in an intimate house concert setting. Very limited seating!
http://wisteriaways.org for more information.
Sunday, February 6th, 2011, 7:00 PM, Parish Hall, St. Alban's Church, St. Albans’ Church, 1501 Washington St., Albany, CA, $20, $15
MusicSources presents:
A Cask of Alban Wine: Graeco-Latin Verses and Music from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Tim Rayborn presents a fascinating program of musical and poetic works in the Greek and Latin languages, from Classical times to the Middle Ages. The ancient world has left us more than 50 pieces of music, miraculously preserved, though many only in fragments. He will perform this concert by candlelight, which will feature spoken and sung voice, and a variety of rare instruments, including sistrum, barbitos, pandoura, lyre, and citole.
Tim (with special guest Annette Bauer) will present Graeco-Roman works, including the two Delphic Hymns to Apollo, the Ode Ad Phyllidem by Horace, the Invocation of Calliope, and medieval pieces such as the early 9th-century Lament for the Death of Charlemagne.
(510) 528-1685
info@musicsources.org
http://www.musicsources.org
