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Baroque Transitions
Experience the Drama of the Emerging Baroque

Saturday, October 18, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
1220 Second Street, Santa Monica
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Sunday, October 19, 7:30 p.m.
Church of the Angels
1100 Avenue 64, Pasadena
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The musicians, theorists and critics of the early Baroque rejected much that was past, indulging in wild experiments in text expression, harmony and texture. Hear excerpts of the landmark Florentine wedding celebration of 1589, Carissimi’s sumptuous Jephte, Cavalieri’s Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo, and daringly innovative madrigals and motets by Monteverdi, Caccini, d’India, Viadana, Gabrieli, and Grandi.


A Twelfth Night of Jouyssance Favorites

Saturday, January 3, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
1220 Second Street, Santa Monica
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Sunday, January 4, 7:30 p.m.
Church of the Angels
1100 Avenue 64, Pasadena
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Over the past 10 years, Jouyssance’s Twelfth Night concerts explored Europe, the New World, the Far East and Africa.  This year, we come home. Come share favorite seasonal early music, including excerpts from our new CD, A Tour of Christmases Past.


Renaissance Transitions

Experience the Mysteries of the Dawning Renaissance

Saturday, June 6, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
1220 Second Street, Santa Monica
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Sunday, June 7, 7:30 p.m.
Church of the Angels
1100 Avenue 64, Pasadena
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The early 15th century saw new sonorities as the jagged rhythms and harmonies of the Ars Nova and Trecento yielded to the smooth sounds of Franco-Flemish Polyphony. This transition was centered in England and at the opulent court of Burgundy.  Enjoy simply gorgeous music by Dunstable, Dufay, their contemporaries, and excerpts from the Old Hall Manuscript.


Stay tuned to hear more about special Spring 2009 concerts featuring the music of Hieronymous Praetorius.  We will be joined by Dr. Fred Gable, a leading authority on this transitional early-Baroque master.

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