Lenten Devotions Through the Ages March 6, 2010

Bay Choral Guild's March concert is an unusual collection of gorgeous, and thought provoking, a cappella music written for the Lenten season. In the first half, Lobo's Requiem and the Tenebrae of Gesualdo by two Renaissance contemporaries-the director of a Portuguese seminary and a guilt-ridden Italian prince-display a range of highly experimental and expressive chromaticism and elaborate counterpoint, but in utterly different harmonic language. The rich tapestry of sound soars and dips as the different voices and themes come and go, and transports both singer and listener to an utterly different world. A superb earlier, although denser, contrapuntal technique is illustrated in three highly personal and intense Motets by Morales, the first internationally renowned Spanish composer. In contrast, a set of beautifully lyric motets by the Romantic composer Josef Rheinberger, and Lenten works by two living composers, England's John Tavener and the Bay Area's own Frank Ferko, finish this extraordinary a cappella concert! Please join us - you will really enjoy it! Preview lecture will be given half an hour before each concert.

Official Website: http://www.baychoralguild.org