F - April 30, 2010 - Saturday - 5:00 Schwan
Concert Hall Wisconsin Lutheran College 8815 West Wisconsin
Avenue
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
This acclaimed quartet is joined by soprano Cecile Kempernaers in a musical portrait of the renowned flamboyant English king and his six wives. Contemporary compositions by the Dutch award-winning composer Piet Swerts are juxtaposed with original English ensemble music of Henry VIII and his court composers.
Additional Events free and open to the public In collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Music Department
Esteemed British musicologist and Renaissance scholar, David Fallows, will participate in aseries of events related to Renaissance music and music scholarship in general.Fallows is also a senior editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music.
April 28 (Thursday) 5:30 Golda Meier Library Room E281 -- Lecture on the evolution and current status of the New Grove Dictionary and Grove Music Online.
April 29 (Friday) 4:00 Golda Meier Library Room E281 -- Lecture on Josquin, Lucretia Borgia, and Leonardo da Vinci, with a reception to follow.
April 30 (Saturday) 10:00 am NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION American Geographical Society Library on the third floor of the Golda Meier Library (east wing)Professor Fallows will be joined by the Flanders Recorder Quartet for a discussion anddemonstration on Music in the Court of Henry VIII.
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