Sequentia

Oct 23, '05, 7 pm

Venue: Hertz Hall

Price: $42

Sequentia is among the world's most respected and innovative medieval music ensembles, and today looks back on more than a quarter-century of memorable musical activities. The group's latest recording for BMG Classics, Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper, explores what secular European songs sounded like 1,000 years ago, and has deservedly received wide critical acclaim. Led by Benjamin Bagby, Sequentia's co-founder and guiding spirit, and featuring singers Eric Mentzel and Agnethe Christensen, and flutist/harpist Norbert Rodenkirchen, the ensemble will perform selections from the album—songs culled from a millennium-old collection of Latin and German works recently discovered at Cambridge University. "Bagby's reconstructions mix scholarly assurance and a showman's inspiration," says the San Francisco Chronicle.

PATRON INFORMATION

Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.

Education and Community Events:
Sightlines event
Sun, Oct 23, 6-6:30 pm, Hertz Hall
Pre-concert talk by director Benjamin Bagby

Artists links:
Official Sequentia site

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