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ModernMedieval Trio of Voices
MUSIC | Program features some of Hildegard of Bingen’s most ecstatic chants, including O Jerusalem & O Viridissima Virga, reflecting her most important sources of inspiration.

ModernMedieval Trio of Voices – Words of Love and Wisdom

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Date(s) - 11/11/2018
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values

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This program features some of Hildegard von Bingen’s most ecstatic chants, including O Jerusalem and O Viridissima Virga, reflecting her most important sources of inspiration: Mother Church, Saints, The Virgin Mary, and The Divine Feminine, as represented by Love and Wisdom. These chants are interwoven with new works by acclaimed composers Caroline Shaw, the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Caleb Burhans, “New York’s mohawked Mozart” (Time Out New York), Joel Phillip Friedman, Daniel Thomas Davis, and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, making her compositional debut. The new works are based on, or influenced by, Hildegard’s philosophic writings, her music, and her visions, and each composer presents their own unique and personal interpretation. The resulting program is an exciting a tour de force for both singers and composers.

The largest, most ambitious work was Joel Phillip Friedman’s “All Things Are Set Ablaze,” during which the singers accompanied themselves on triangle, drum and tambourine, providing an earthy undergirding for more abstract elements in a diverse yet cohesive work of considerable power.
Patrick Rucker, The Washington Post

ModernMedieval Trio is a new, all female ensemble created by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, former member of the world renowned vocal quartet Anonymous 4.  She is joined by Martha Cluver and Eliza Bagg from the celebrated ensemble Roomful of Teeth to present programs that combine medieval chant and polyphony with new commissions and music from later eras.

Words of Love and Wisdom is part of the Damron Concert Artist Series

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