French Baroque Masterpieces: Prof. Geoffrey Burgess performs with the Choir of Trinity Church

Submitted by MPPUser on May 13, 2008 - 12:56pm.
05/20/2008 - 7:30pm
05/20/2008 - 9:30pm
Etc/GMT-4
Location:
Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street


Geoffrey Burgess, who has been visiting on the Columbia Historical Musicology faculty this
year, is also a renowned oboist, and next week will collaborate with the Choir of Trinity
Church at Wall Street in music of the French Baroque: not his usual area of opera, but in
a program of music from the Chapelle Royale.


Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 7:30 pm

French Baroque Masterpieces by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Michel-Richard de Lalande, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Henry Desmarest, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

Guest Conductor: Simon Carrington

Some of the most noble and sumptuously beautiful, heroic, and yet sensual music ever
composed in France was in the form known as the Grand Motet-a French genre developed at
the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV which lasted until the end of the Ancien Régime.
It was the main ornament of the king's Mass from Louis XIV up to Louis XVI, allowing a
sort of dialogue between musicians, composers,courtiers and their king.

Trinity Church is located on Broadway at Wall Street.

To Trinity Church by Subway:

4 Line5 Line2 Line3 Line
to Wall Street


1 LineW LineR Line
to Rector Street


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to Broad Street


Tickets:
$40 Reserved Premium Seating
$25 General Admission
$15 at the door for Students and Seniors

Purchase tickets via TicketWeb at www.ticketweb.com or call 1-866-468-7619.

Questions? Contact music associate Richard Lippold at 212-602-0873.

 

There is also an abbreviated version of the concert being presented in St. Paul's Chapel @
Broadway and Park Row, 1pm Monday 19th.

If you can't make the concert in person, it will be available live towatch-on-demand on
the internet. see: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music/?choir-season