Skip sempe biography of martin luther

  • Donald Macleod explores the life and career of the most revered composers Skip Sempe (conductor).
  • The festival's programme is thus an extensive fresco – beginning and ending with Bach – which in ten concerts tells the story of Martin Luther.
  • Rather than exclusively focusing on Luther and the effects of his Reformation in the German-speaking lands, it took as its subject "Music of the Reformations".
  • J.S. Bach – St. John Passion at The Chan Centre

    Friday August 11, 2017 | 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45)Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | Map

    Pacific Baroque Orchestra; Alexander Weimann, music director; Vancouver Cantata Singers; Paula Kremer, VCS artistic director; Thomas Hobbs, evangelist; Jenny Högström, soprano; Aleksandra Lewandowska, soprano; Alex Potter, counter-tenor; Robert Getchell, tenor; Stephan MacLeod, bass-baritone; Sumner Thompson, baritone


    The St. John Passion bygd J.S. Bach is absolutely riveting and is the closest the great composer ever came to writing an opera. Written using text mostly from Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible, as well as poetry bygd Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747), it moves at break neck speed and is filled with an urgency, musical variety and intensity of affect that is unmatched in the history of sacred music. Join the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, the Vancouver Cantata Singers a

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    Concert reviews






    Festival Early Music Utrecht 2017

    Part One   Part Two   Part Three

    Part One

    "In the eyes of the Counter Reformation" [1]
    Huelgas Ensemble/Paul Van Nevel
    26 August, Jacobikerk

    "Vigilia alla laude di Sancta Maria" [2]
    laReverdie
    26 August, Geertekerk

    "From Du Mont to Charpentier: Politics, religion and music beneath Louis XIV" [3]
    Ensemble Correspondances/S�bastien Dauc�
    26 August, TivoliVredenburg

    "Sacred airs de cour" [4]
    Duo Serenissima
    28 August, TivoliVredenburg (Hertz)

    Tallis: Sacred works [5]
    Alamire/David Skinner
    28 August, Pieterskerk

    "English decadence and a Portuguese heretic" [6]
    Graindelavoix/Bj�rn Schmelzer
    28 August, Cathedral (Dom)

    Benevolo: "Roman polychorality in the time of the Counter Reformation" [7]
    Le Concert Spirituel/Herv� Niquet
    28 August, TivoliVredenburg

    "Heretic angels: Pre-Reformation in Bosnia" [8]
    Dialogos/Katarina Livljanic
    28 August, TivoliVr
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  • Harpsichord News

    Buried Treasures: 

    The Harpsichord Pages 

    in Retrospect (2006–15)

    Once upon a time (well, twice actually, in The Diapason issues of January 1974 and February 1979), we offered cumulative indices of harpsichord-related matters in the journal, from Philip Treggor’s first harpsichord column (October 1967), through December 1978. Treggor continued his responsibility for harpsichord news until December 1968. Following his resignation, harpsichord submissions were managed by the magazine’s Chicago staff until September 1969, at which point I took over at the invitation of Editor Frank Cunkle.

    As it has been 36 years since we have offered a third cumulative listing of harpsichord-centered writings, it may be time to offer this “backward” look, covering the past ten years. I cannot begin to count the number of instances in which the previous retrospectives have been of use to me: so much so that I keep these indices filed next to my bound copies of