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Treat yourself to an evening of Early Music

Carole
April 25, 2003

The St. Olaf Early Music Singers and Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Gerald Hoekstra, will present their spring concert on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Urness Recital Hall. The program will feature music from 16th- and 17th-century England. Composers on the program include William Byrd ("Mass for Five Voices"), John Ward, John Coperario and others working at the royal court or in the households of English nobility.

Other works to be performed by the singers include the psalm Laudebus in sanctis, madrigals by John Ward and Orlando Gibbons, and an anthem by Matthew Jeffries. The Collegium will perform dances, fantasias and other types of instrumental music by John Coperario, John Jenkins and Anthony Holborne. The St. Olaf Early Music Singers is an ensemble of 18 select singers who devote their efforts to performance of early historical choral music. The Collegium Musicum performs on instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as viols, recorders, crumhorns, shawms, cornetts and sackbuts.

Contact Carole at 507-786-3315 or leigh@stolaf.edu.