Music & Arts at St. George's: Upcoming Events
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~ Spring 2012 Concerts at Saint George's ~
Armonium Nova Spring Concert • ‘Women’ Saints & Sinners • 24 March 2012 @ 8pm
“…a spellbinding performance…” “chill beauty – an operatic level of engagement”
~ Washington Post
Join the modern women of Armonia Nova as they offer you a glimpse of women living in medieval times expressing a gamut of sacred to secular passions. This is music of and about women and their daily lives; how they were viewed and how they viewed themselves. Women dedicated to love of the sacred and women focused on the secular things of life – women behaving nobly and women behaving ‘badly’. The time is remote, the glimpse is small, but the thoughts and feelings of the women described are remarkably modern – we could expect to meet some of them today.
Armonia Nova, named by the Washington Post as “of the area’s most gifted early music virtuosos”, specializes in 12th-17th C. music. This Washington D.C. based ensemble of period instruments and voices applies scholarship for a historically informed performance with the desire for the listener to hear this remote yet remarkably beautiful music as it might have sounded when newly created. Armonia Nova is frequently praised for its intelligent and creative programming, and for performances that bring intensity and immediacy to the music, capturing its emotional content, while maintaining purity and clarity of tone essential to music of this early period’. www.armonianova.org
Vivre Musicale • 2012 Season “The Passion for the Arts”
Saturday, 10 March 2012 • 7:30pm | featuring the AM/PM saxophone quartet
Saturday, 21 April 2012 • 7:30pm | featuring music about Adam and Even and the Garden of Eden
Saturday, 12 May 2012 • 7:30pm | featuring music of Mozart, Debussy, Libermann, and others
Vivre Musicale is a non-profit chamber music society that seeks to provide young up and coming musicians a strong foot hold in the classical music world through the diversification of concerts, genres, and the melding together of various art forms that further enhance the concert going experience. It is a collection of select young classically trained artists and guest artists whose goal it is to push the limits of classical music leading the world into a future of living art, where classical music no longer place holds as an aural museum of the past but rather a vibrant, living expression of past impetus informed by contemporary knowledge and performance practice. Through the collaboration of visual and other performance artists as well as different musical genres, Vivre Musicale hopes to diversify the would-be classical music audience, not limiting or pigeon-holing itself in a narrow frame of works but continually seeking to make connections between works of various styles. In total, Vivre is life, the living music. It is the music that inspires, propels, and gives voice to those who otherwise would be silenced in a world where classical music is pronounced dead. It is the chamber group of the past, the present, and the future.
For more information: vivremusicale.org
Washington Early Music Festival • 8, 9, 10 June 2012
Saint George’s hosts the weekend events of the month long 2012 Washington Early Music Festival.
The Washington Early Music Festival, a biennial event, is designed for a wide audience, and particularly for lovers of early music from the medieval to the baroque, dance and visual arts. Thanks to the widespread and generous support of people in our community WEMF has been successful since its inaugural year, June 2004. A different country or cultural focus is featured each year.
www.earlymusicdc.org
