TEXTURE - beauty for dark times
An a cappella concert that celebrates the music and influence of 16th century Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) and Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).
The program features Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli: an intricate, exquisite work written in defiance of a papal edict demanding that all sacred music be simple and stark. Our program will celebrate this work and incorporate works by German composer Anton Bruckner. Bruckner lived 300 years later, yet his music rings with the old master’s influence and style. With this unadorned, a cappella program, we, like Palestrina, stand in defiant defense of the necessity of beauty in dark times.
Anton Bruckner was a devoutly religious man, and composed numerous sacred works. He wrote a Te Deum, five psalm settings (including Psalm 150 in the 1890s), a Festive cantata, a Magnificat, about forty motets (among them eight settings of Tantum ergo, and three settings of both Christus factus est and Ave Maria), and at least seven Masses.There will be five selected a cappella works by Bruckner in this concert.
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