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| Event: |
Renaissance Glory - A Christmas Concert with the Festival Consort |
| Summary: | Founded in 1976, the Festival Consort is one of the Bay Area’s longest performing early music ensembles. With acclaimed singers Carol Menke, soprano, Chris Fritzsche, countertenor, and Douglas Mandell, tenor, the Consort offers medieval and renaissance secular and sacred songs, as well as instrumental works. The instruments used by the Consort are all authentic historical reproductions: recorders, shawms, crumhorns, pipe and tabor, sackbuts and trumpets. The Consort’s David Hogan Smith maintains the double reed instruments (the shawms and crumhorns) and also researches works for the program. Some of the works are being performed for the first time since the sixteenth century. Joanna Bramel Young, a founding member of the Consort, and Alan Paul complete the ensemble. The Consort’s Christmas repertoire combines instrumental fantasies with traditional yuletide carols to celebrate the season. |
| Admission: |
$15 General Admission available at the door or by calling 707-528-6370 |
| Date & Time: | December 18, 2009, 8 pm |
| Location: | Church of the Incarnation |
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| More Information: | A CD by the Consort, called "Renaissance Glory, Christmas with The Festival Consort," will be for sale at the concert. |