Join us for a special festal choral evensong, followed by a 'Pimms and Palestrina' talk given by Rob Howarth, Director of Music at the University Church, with music from the University Church Choral Scholars.
This year we are celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the birth of Palestrina, and the Choir have been singing a mixture of his lesser-known Mass settings, alongside a great number of his motets. In this talk we will explore the legacy of Palestrina's work, focussing on the work of his students, and how music ultimately moved from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Alongside his legacy we will look at how Palestrina was a master of both polyphony and homophony, and how he used music to support the text and emotion, and how that would move the passions of his congregations. We will illustrate this with a few live musical examples. There is no charge for this event but there will be the opportunity to make a donation in support of the Christian Aid Burkina Faso Project.