Name: Chamber Series: Vocal Polyphony William Byrd 400th
Start: 2023-05-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Live! at 10th & G

Organization

Washington Bach Consort

Chamber Series: Vocal Polyphony William Byrd 400th

Alexandria

United States

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Washington D.C.

Live! at 10th & G

Public

Concert

Approved

Each season, the singers of the Washington Bach Consort present a concert exploring sacred vocal polyphony of the Renaissance and Baroque. Arguably among the finest composers of the high Renaissance, William Byrd (c.1540–1623) left behind a repertory richly varied in its contrapuntal style, with a sense of individuality not often encountered among his counterparts in continental Europe. The program will be performed in observance of the 400th anniversary of the composer’s death. Much of Byrd’s Latin sacred music would have been prohibited in parishes of Elizabethan Protestant England. Like many Roman Catholics, Byrd had to exercise caution when it came to speaking—or composing—his religious views.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )