SNEATON CASTLE CENTRE, WHITBY
Friday 22nd
November to Sunday 24th.
St.
Charlemagne and the Play of Antichrist
Sing, study
and learn about music from the early Middle Ages in honour of the first Holy
Roman Emperor and his successors, and chants for the Feast of Christ the King.
The programme
will include excerpts from the early 13th c. Office of 'St. Charlemagne'
together with hymnody from the Carolingian renaissance and some of the earliest
polyphony, and a speculative edited reconstruction of the semi-liturgical drama
'Ludus de Antichristo' from 12th c. Germany, in which the Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I 'Barbarossa' is first seduced by Antichrist and then won back to
the true faith.
This programme
will be the basis of a concert to be performed by the Schola with the Bristol
University Schola Cantorum on Saturday 30th November, 7.30 pm, at the Temple
Church, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 7HL
The inclusive
cost of board, accommodation, music and tuition is £200.
For full
details, and non-residential participation, please address enquries toscholacambridge@aol.com,
or St. Benedict's, 124 Cambridge Road, Barton, Cambridge, CB23 7AR Tel:
01223 263063
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