Our Lady of Sorrows: Music by Josquin, Isaac & Senfl
Friday, February 28, 7:30 pm
Cove Presbyterian Church
5531 Covesville Lane, Covesville
Saturday, March 1, 4:00 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue, Charlottesville
Zephyrus presents “Our Lady of Sorrows,” a program focusing on one of the most popular chansons of the fifteenth century, Gilles Binchois’s Comme femme desconfortée. Setting a text in the voice of a woman whose lover has been taken by death, the chanson was repurposed in sacred polyphony in the Renaissance, transforming its original meaning to refer to Mary’s grief over the death of Jesus. A small vocal ensemble is joined by viola da gamba players Amy Domingues, Risa Crowder, and John Moran for music by Agricola, Josquin, Isaac, Senfl, and Ghiselin.
Faire Is the Heaven: Music by Harris, Gjeilo & Lambe
Saturday, May 3, 7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue, Charlottesville
In May Zephyrus presents a program entitled “Faire Is the Heaven,” exploring the music of the spheres from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. The concert features heavenly music by a star-studded list of composers: Walter Lambe and William Byrd, William Harris and Charles Villiers Stanford, Eric Whitacre and Ola Gjeilo.