The Consort will perform a one hour concert of carnival music from Venice at the Bata Shoe Museum on February 5, 2010. The performance is complementary to the exhibition On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels.
Event Details:
Carnival in Venice: Party Music of the 16th Century
Friday, February 5, 2010
8-9 pm; doors open at 7:30 pm
Renaissance Italy celebrated Carnival in style, with elaborate processions, masquerades, songs and parties being a feature of life particularly in Florence and Venice in the days leading up to Mardi Gras. The Toronto Consort will perform a delectable selection of carnival songs and dances from the early 16th century, with voices, lute, recorder, hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord and viola da gamba.
$25 per person
$20 for students and seniors
$10 for members of the Bata Shoe Museum
Pre-registration required; call 416-979-7799 x242
www.batashoemuseum.ca/events/index.shtml
In February 2010, the Consort will present two performances of our newest education program, based on The Marco Polo Project concert that was performed in early October 2008.
This new concert debuted in Spring 2009 with a script of selected readings from The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian’s own account of his adventures through the Middle East and southern Russia to China. Students hear examples of Chinese musical styles and instruments and traditional Georgian music, which features incredible vocal gymnastics, including nimble counterpoint and strident dissonant chord tunings. Around these pieces from Georgia and China, the Toronto Consort plays examples of the lively dances and haunting laude (Italian spiritual songs) which would have been known by Marco Polo and his family.
The new education program will be of special interest to the many students from diverse cultural backgrounds who have been attending our programs in recent years.
The Toronto Consort newest CD, The Queen, was released on the Marquis Classics label in May 2009. This new recording features examples of a uniquely English combination of instruments called the “mixed consort”, consisting of lute, bandora, cittern, viola da gamba, flute and violin with all the glorious music relating in some way to the remarkable monarch, Elizabeth I.
The Queen and the Consort’s seven other CDs are now available at Toronto Consort performances, or contact us at 416-966-1045.
Toronto Consort members and David Fallis have continued their work on music for The Tudors. During summer 2009 the Consort was working on the music for Season Four, the final season of this epic series. Season Three of the TV series was shown on CBC Television this Fall and is currently online at www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_Tudors if you would like to watch the episodes.
