ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
Choral Evensong
Sunday, October 20, 2019
5:00 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
214 West Beverley Street
Staunton, Virginia
Sunday, March 15, 2020
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue
Charlottesville, Virginia
Zephyrus sings English Renaissance polyphony in the context of the Evening Prayer service. The service will include canticle settings by John Sheppard and responses by Thomas Tomkins.
ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
A Renaissance Christmas in Rome
Friday, December 13, 2019
7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue
Charlottesville, Virginia
Saturday, December 14, 2019
3:30 pm
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
7599 Rockfish Gap Turnpike
(U. S. 250 West)
Greenwood, Virginia
Zephyrus recreates the sounds of a 17th-century Christmas in Rome with music by two of the most famous musicians employed at the Sistine Chapel—Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina and Girolamo Frescobaldi—as well as their colleague Tomás Luis de Victoria. The featured work is Palestrina’s joyful Missa Hodie Christus natus est for eight-part double choir, based on the composer’s motet of the same name.
ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
Lutheran Choral Vespers: The Reformation in North Germany
Friday, February 21, 2020
7:30 pm
Westminster Presbyterian Church
400 Rugby Road
Charlottesville, Virginia
Sunday, February 23, 2020
4:00 pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
1000 Langhorne Road
Lynchburg, Virginia
In prosperous North Germany during the Renaissance, afternoon vespers in Lutheran churches were occasions for lavish musical productions featuring choir and organ. In this concert, Zephyrus performs some of the finest 17th-century music written for vespers, with chants from Franz Eler’s Cantica sacra, elaborate choral works by Schütz and Praetorius, and organ music by Scheidemann and Scheidt. Zephyrus is joined by organist Jonathan Schakel for this program.
ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
Power & Polyphony: Music from the Court of Charles V
(THIS CONCERT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.)
Saturday, May 2, 2020
7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Avenue
Charlottesville, Virginia
Saturday, May 9, 2020
8:00 pm
Bruton Parish Church
331 West Duke of Gloucester Street
Williamsburg, Virginia
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, King of Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, was not only a powerful monarch but also was a great patron of music, counting as his court musicians some of the most celebrated composers of his day. Zephyrus explores the musical riches of Charles’s reign by tracing his life through music—from his favorite chanson, written by Josquin, and wedding and coronation masses by Gombert and Morales to motets marking political victories and music composed for the emperor’s funeral.