LIONHEART LIVE
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Spring 2011
Sunday, April 17, 1pm and 3pm:
The Cloisters, New York City
Holy Week in the Tudor Chapel Royal
The men of Lionheart return to The Cloisters with music for Passiontide and Easter from the volatile period of the English Reformation. Thirteenth-century Sarum chants and the astonishing six-voice votive antiphon O regina mundi clara from the late fifteenth-century Eton Choirbook represent the religious and musical tradition inherited by Henry VIII; Christopher Tye's obsessive If Ye Be Risen Again with Christ demonstrates the radical changes in religious, political, and musical discourse that took place under his son and successor, Edward VI. Thomas Tallis's masterful and heart-wrenching settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah are performed in alternation with their traditional Latin chant responsories�as they might have been heard in the chapel of Elizabeth I.
http://www.metmuseum.org/tickets/calendar/view.asp?id=3312
Sunday, May 15, 3pm: Merrill Auditorium, Portland, Maine with the Portland String Quartet and Ray Cornils
Phil Kline's "John the Revelator"
Considered one of the most significant works of the past decade, composer Phil Kline�s John the Revelator is a gorgeous and powerful Mass for the 21st century. John the Revelator finds inspiration in the writings of Samuel Beckett and poet David Shapiro, early American hymns, shape-note singing and the events of 9/11. Acclaimed for their �smoothly blended and impeccably balanced sound� (The New York Times), Lionheart is joined by municipal organist Ray Cornils and Portland String Quartet for this unique presentation. The concert will feature a new work for organ by Kline, commissioned in part by Portland Ovations and Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ.
http://portlandovations.org/shows/20010-11/phil_klines_john_the_revelator_featuring_lionheart/