Past Event
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 2:30 p.m.
"Ecco la primavera! (Spring Is Here!)"
820 E Street, San Diego, 92101
Cost: Free
Local Renaissance-music group Courtly Noyse, with John Cassaboom, Laury Flora, Penny Hawkins, Vickie Jenkins, Jay Sacks, and Sandra Stram, plans family concert with musicians in period costumes performing vocal, instrumental Renaissance music related to theme of springtime. Listen for entertaining songs about a cricket ("El Grillo") and birds ("Le Chant des Oyseaux"), a madrigal sung by a cuckoo, an owl, a cat, a dog, and a cow ("Contraponto bestiale alla mente"). Composers to be performed include Josquin des Prez, Francesco Landini, Anthony Holborne, Christopher Tye, Clement Jannequin, others. 619-236-5810.