CLASSICAL: A taste of Milan 350 years ago; GO2.Byline: JENNY MACKENZIE VESPERS vespers (vĕs`pərz) [Lat.,=evening], in the Christian Church, principal evening office. In the Roman rite, vespers have consisted since the 6th cent. of a few prayers, five psalms, a lesson, the Magnificat, and an antiphon. by a nun from Milan written 350 years ago promises to be the biggest discovery made by audiences in the Warwick area this year. The Vespers by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602 — c. 1678) was a Baroque composer, unusual in that she was a Benedictine nun, who spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where she became abbess and stopped composing. will be performed by the group Musica Secreta secreta /se·cre·ta/ (se-kre´tah) [L., pl.] secretion (2). se·cre·ta n. Substances secreted by a cell, a tissue, or an organ; the products of secretion. secreta [L. at St Mary's Church on Tuesday, as part of the prestigious monthly early music series promoted by Warwick Arts Society. Musica Secreta brings a top line up of eight singers to Warwick - sopranos Deborah Roberts and Tessa Bonner, mezzo mez·zo n. pl. mez·zos A mezzo-soprano. mezzo Adverb Music moderately; quite: mezzo-forte Noun pl -zos sopranos Catherine King, Sally Dunkley and Victoria Rowcroft, and altos Mary Nichols, Caroline Trevor and Penny Vickers.s They will be accompanied by David Miller on chitarrone and John Tollon on organ, two other big names in the early music field, in which Warwick is now one of the leading promoters in Britain. Cozzolino, who had been known as a singer before she entered a convent in Milan in 1620, was definitely influenced by Monteverdi, but her Vespers were brilliantly written for her companion nuns. Musica Secreta takes it name from the group of legendary women singers in the Court of Duke Alfonso II in Ferrara in North Italy, who would only allow chosen guests at private concerts to hear their superb singing. That was in the late sixteenth century and Italian convents during the next century were filled with musically educated women who were made to take the veil (Eccl.) to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun. See also: Veil as a cheaper alternative to marriage. We may not approve, but it produced glorious music from a number of nun composers and none was greater than Cozzolani. Warwick Arts Society, in the first three months of 2001, will promote three very different concerts of vocal music at St Mary's Church. In February the Trigon Ensemble will transport the audience with French mediaeval music of the early 1200s and in March, the Renaissance Singers will return them to Italy for the Lamentations of Palestrina, dated 1588. Tickets are available at the Warwick and Leamington Festival box office on 01926 496277. WARWICK Arts Centre's International Celebrity Concert Series has gone from strength to strength this season with subscriptions for the current series continuing to climb. Some of the spring season's classical highlights include the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. The orchestra was founded as the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1920, with Edward Elgar conducting its first concert in September of that year. which will be returning to the Coventry Arts Centre on February 2. Their programme will include Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - with Joseph Swensen conducting and Stephen Kovacevich as soloist in Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto. On February 21, Volodymyr Sirenko conducts the National Symphony Orchestra National Symphony Orchestra is used for the name of many orchestras in different countries. It may refer to the:
n. One that wins a prize. prizewinner n → premiado/a prizewinner prize n → gagnant(e) of the Robert Schumann Competition in 1989. Internationally-acclaimed Solihull pianist Peter Donohoe returns to Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, attracting around 280,000 visitors a year to over 2,000 individual events embracing music, drama, on March 9 with a solo recital, playing pieces by Chopin, Schumann, Ravel Liszt. Each concert is preceeded by a talk. Details are available from the box office on 024 7652 4524. CAPTION(S): DISCOVERY: Musica Secreta perform The Vespers |
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