METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS
Diana's Hunt: Songs of the Bestiary
Elliot Cole and Alkemie perform new arrangements of stunning 14th-century music and newly-composed repertoire inspired by the medieval bestiary
Friday, November 9, 2018
1 Rivington Street / 2nd Floor (Buzzer #1) / New York, NY
6:30pm (doors) / 7:00pm (event)
Tickets: $15 general / $10 students / free for members
Alkemie members Tracy Cowart, Elena Mullins, David McCormick, Sian Ricketts, and Niccolo Seligmann are joined by composer/performer Elliot Cole in performances of new arrangements of stunning music from 14th-century Italy and newly-composed repertoire inspired by the medieval bestiary. Vielles, harp, recorders, percussion and voices evoke soaring birds, slithering reptiles, wondrous creatures, and the goddesses Diana and Venus. Serving as both mythology and Christian allegory, these fantastic visions of the animal kingdom continue to provoke the modern as well as the medieval imagination.
on the program
Donato de Firenze: Segundo'l canto d'un uccel selvaggio
Lorenzo da Firenze: A poste messe
Paolo da Firenze: Firando unbel falcon
Anonymous: Canta lo gallo
Codez Faenza: Alquil' altea
Jacopo da Bologna: Alquil' altera - Creatura - Ucel de Dio
Paolo da Firenze: Una fera gentil
Elliot Cole: Unicorn*
Donato da Firenze: L'aspido sordo
Elliot Cole: Hedgehog*
Add MS 29987: Ghaetta
Bartolino da Padova: Alba Colnba
Johannes Ciconia: Una panthera
Elliot Cole: Basilisk*
Paola da Firenze: Era Venus al termin del suo Giorno
Niccolo da Perugia: Passando con pensier
*World Premiere
“Elliot Cole is ‘a charismatic contemporary bard’”
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