Medieval Women's Choir presents: Songs of Ecstasy and Devotion
$30/$25/$15
The religious communities of the middle ages were not only places of prayer and contemplation. They were also hotbeds of intense spirituality and lavish ceremony, where the magnificence of God was reflected in liturgical music cultivated there. In an age before opera houses or public concerts, ambitious singers found an outlet for their art in an ecstatic, highly ornamented repertoire of vocal music which was the preserve of the most virtuosic among them; the musical equivalent of soaring gothic architecture, richly colored stained glass, or sumptuous manuscript illumination.
Marian Seibert, Erika Chang, Aaron Cain, and Bill McJohn join Artistic Director Eric Mentzel to rediscover the link between devotion and ecstasy.
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 door, $15 students
--> LMP Critic's Pick: "Members of the Medieval Women’s Choir plus director Eric Mentzel perform some of the highly ornamented ecstatic sacred music in the Middle Ages where the most accomplished singers could give voice, literally, to their passion and talent." ~ Seattle music critic Philippa Kiraly.