{"id":3534,"date":"2025-10-28T18:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrus-va.org\/wpdemo\/?page_id=3534"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:42:10","slug":"current-concerts-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zephyrus-va.org\/wpdemo\/current-concerts-3","title":{"rendered":"Current Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Sound from Heaven, As of a Great Wind:
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Saturday, April 25, 4:00 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
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In modern life the wind is often a hostile force of nature, blowing destruction through hurricanes, tornadoes, or wildfire.\u00a0 Our spring program focuses on the gentler winds of heaven that were celebrated in the Renaissance for their life-giving blessings.\u00a0 The featured work is John Sheppard\u2019s Western Wind Mass<\/i>, based on the early sixteenth-century song, The Westron Wynde<\/i>, a tiny fragment of verse longing for the gentle wisps of air brought by Zephyrus, the Greek god of westerly breezes, who, according to Chaucer, \u201cinspired the tendre croppes.\u201d \u00a0The program also combines madrigals in praise of Zephyrus with motets honoring the greatest of inspiring winds, the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus\u2019s disciples in Jerusalem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/section> \t\t\t\t

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A Spanish Renaissance Christmas:\u00a0
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Saturday, December 6, 7:30 pm
St. John’s Episcopal Church
410 Harrison Street, Scottsville<\/p>

Friday, December 12, 7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Ave, Charlottesville<\/p>

Saturday, December 13, 4:00 pm
Grace Episcopal Church
5607 Gordonsville Road, Keswick<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/section> \t\t\t\t

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This year\u2019s Christmas program visits seventeenth-century Spain for a collection of exquisite motets and festive villancicos<\/i> for Advent and Christmas.\u00a0 The music of Crist\u00f3bal de Morales, Francesco Guerrero, and Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria was famous not only in Spain but throughout Europe as well as the Americas.\u00a0 All three also traveled widely themselves, and Guerrero\u2019s nearly five-month trip to the Holy Land in 1588 inspired a popular collection of villancicos<\/i> for Christmas which was published the following year.\u00a0 The program concludes with the magnificent setting of Verbum caro factum est<\/i>, for twelve-part choir, by Philippe Rogier, a Flemish composer who spent his career working for the court in Madrid.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/section> \t\t\t\t

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Choral Evensong:
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Sunday, March 8, 6:30 pm
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
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The evening prayer service is one of the most beautiful liturgies of the church, and the music written for it is some of the most gorgeous sacred music ever written.\u00a0 At this service Zephyrus sings polyphony for the evening service from the early years of the English Reformation, with music by Christopher Tye, including his beautiful setting of the Nunc dimittis and the exquisite motet\u00a0In pace<\/i>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/div> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \t\t<\/section> \t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Sound from Heaven, As of a Great Wind:Music by Sheppard, Tallis & Byrd Saturday, April 25, 4:00 pmSt. Paul’s Memorial Church1701 University Ave, Charlottesville In modern life the wind is often a hostile force of nature, blowing destruction through hurricanes, tornadoes, or wildfire.\u00a0 Our spring program focuses on the gentler winds of heaven that … <\/p>\n

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