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Les Canards Chantants in concert at Glencairn Museum May 26
Solo-voice ensemble offers sacred music from before and after the Reformation.
Renowned early-music vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants presents Transcendence to Transparency, a before-and-after look at the changing face of sacred music in Europe during the Reformation, in Glencairn Museum’s Great Hall on Saturday, May 26, at 7:30pm.
The program will include Latin and vernacular works by some of the greatest composers who lived through this tumultuous time: Johann Walter, Jacob Clemens non Papa, and Thomas Tallis.
Doors open at 7:00pm. $20 General Admission, $15 Basic Members/Seniors/Students, Free for Gold and Patron Members. Advance tickets available through May 24 at the Museum or call 267.502.2990; after May 24, only at the door. Reserved seats for Patron Members only: call 267.502.2990.
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For more information: 267.502.2990 or www.GlencairnMuseum.org. Glencairn Museum: 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn 19009.
Praised for their “polished singing” and for “instilling their superb performances with liveliness and theatricality” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer) and for their “brilliant and moving” programming (Early Music America magazine), Les Canards Chantants is a solo-voice ensemble committed to dynamic interpretation of renaissance polyphony. The “singing ducks” have performed to high acclaim in the UK, Germany, and China, and are now based in Philadelphia, where they are musical Ensemble in Residence at Glencairn Museum.