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CHANTRY AT ST. BERNADETTE – SUNDAY OCTOBER 15, 2023

CHANTRY AT ST. BERNADETTE ~ SUNDAY OCTOBER 15

 

Chantry returns to St. Bernadette on Sunday October 15 at 3:00 p.m. to sing rarely-heard Renaissance masterpieces by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spain’s greatest composer (and Msgr. Smith’s favorite). Most of the beautiful motets and Masses by this priest-composer have a joyful character. Victoria’s motet Quam pulchri sunt takes its text from the Song of Songs, traditionally associated with the Virgin Mary. Victoria sets it and his Mass based on it in the sunny Lydian mode. His supremely beautiful setting of Pange lingua “more hispano” (in the Spanish manner) sets the ancient Mozarabic plainchant melody for the hymn. Reviewing a Chantry performance of Renaissance polyphony, Washington Classical Review said Chantry “sings this music extremely well,” with pieces “crystalline in structure and balance,” sound with “a virtuosic sheen,” and singing with “delightful rhythmic alacrity.” The Washington Post has hailed Chantry’s “vast expressive capacity and deeply ingrained sense of style.”

Discounted half-price tickets for St. Bernadette’s parishioners are available through the Rectory (visit the Rectory by Friday October 13).
General admission tickets ($50 adult, $20 youth ages 22 and under) are available on chantrydc.org, or at the door.
More information is available at chantrydc.org or 202-625-2855.