Ars Musica Chicago
at the
CHICAGO
HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Ganz
Hall of Roosevelt University
430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Call
312-661-1028 for CHF info
Water in Sound
and Symbol
The title and concept of this concert comes from
one of the major themes of this year's Chicago Humanities Festival,
"The Climate of Concern." Water, both physically and symbolically,
is essential to sustaining life. Indeed, our city owes its birth
and continued growth to its proximity to Lake Michigan.
Ars Musica
Chicago will present an original program of works "in the key of H2O" with
Renaissance and early Baroque compositions such as:
Jacques Maudit's Eau vive, source d'amour (Living water, source of love)
Francisco Guerrero's Rorate caeli desuper (Drop down dew, ye heavens and
let the clouds rain the Just One)
Thomas Campion's "As by the
streams of Babylon"
Solomone Rossi's "Y'susum midbar" (The wilderness
and the partched land
shall be glad)
Giovanni
Palestrina's Sicut servus (As the heart yerns for the water
springs)
The performance will be enhanced by a series of selected
readings dating from ancient times to present day from the likes of
Lao Tzu, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickenson, John of Damascus and more.
For
more information, contact the Chicago Humanities Festival at 312-661-1028
or www.chfestival.org.
