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- A Portuguese Advent Vespers
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Friday, November 13 at 8:00pm - A Portuguese Advent Vespers
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philad...
Saturday, November 14 at 8:00pm - A Portuguese Advent Vespers
Saint Andrew and Saint Matthew Chur...
Sunday, November 15 at 8:00pm
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Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Distinguished for the lavishness of their instrumental music and singing in the divine office of the Catholic Church, the Portuguese clerics, musicians, and composers maintained a notable reputation through the Iberian peninsula and beyond. A Marian Vespers for the season of Advent, such as heard in the great Portugues...e cathedrals of Lisbon, Coimbra or Evora in the 17th century, will present the grandiloquent polychoral Psalms and Magnificat of Joao Lourenco Rebelo, together with sacred works by Antonio Pinheiro and Estevao de Brito. The concert will also feature the rhythmically vital and textually earthy villancicos of native son, Gaspar Fernandez, and will climax with the stunning, highly intimate and devotional Salve Regina by Diogo Dias Melgas. Piffaro will be joined by the member of the Choral Arts Society, Matthew Glandorf, director, and guest brass players Kiri Tollaksen (cornetto) and Erik Schmalz and Mack Ramsey (sackbuts)Read More
Time:8:00PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:Saint Andrew and Saint Matthew Church, Wilmington, DE
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Distinguished for the lavishness of their instrumental music and singing in the divine office of the Catholic Church, the Portuguese clerics, musicians, and composers maintained a notable reputation through the Iberian peninsula and beyond. A Marian Vespers for the season of Advent, such as heard in the great Portugues...e cathedrals of Lisbon, Coimbra or Evora in the 17th century, will present the grandiloquent polychoral Psalms and Magnificat of Joao Lourenco Rebelo, together with sacred works by Antonio Pinheiro and Estevao de Brito. The concert will also feature the rhythmically vital and textually earthy villancicos of native son, Gaspar Fernandez, and will climax with the stunning, highly intimate and devotional Salve Regina by Diogo Dias Melgas. Piffaro will be joined by the member of the Choral Arts Society, Matthew Glandorf, director, and guest brass players Kiri Tollaksen (cornetto) and Erik Schmalz and Mack Ramsey (sackbuts)Read More
Time:8:00PM Saturday, November 14th
Location:St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Distinguished for the lavishness of their instrumental music and singing in the divine office of the Catholic Church, the Portuguese clerics, musicians, and composers maintained a notable reputation through the Iberian peninsula and beyond. A Marian Vespers for the season of Advent, such as heard in the great Portugue...se cathedrals of Lisbon, Coimbra or Evora in the 17th century, will present the grandiloquent polychoral Psalms and Magnificat of Joao Lourenco Rebelo, together with sacred works by Antonio Pinheiro and Estevao de Brito. The concert will also feature the rhythmically vital and textually earthy villancicos of native son, Gaspar Fernandez, and will climax with the stunning, highly intimate and devotional Salve Regina by Diogo Dias Melgas. Piffaro will be joined by the member of the Choral Arts Society, Matthew Glandorf, director, and guest brass players Kiri Tollaksen (cornetto) and Erik Schmalz and Mack Ramsey (sackbuts)Read More
Time:8:00PM Friday, November 13th
Location:Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Source: piffaro.org
[On Monday], I heard from Marvin Rosen at Princeton’s WPRB. As far asI know this is the premiere broadcast of the complete Vespers:
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band A fantastic review of the new Vespers disc on Audiophile. Check it out!
KILE SMITH: Vespers – Piffaro/ The Crossing/ Joan Kimball, Robert Wiemken, directors – Navona Record
Source: www.audaud.com
KILE SMITH: Vespers – Piffaro/ The Crossing/ Joan Kimball, Robert Wiemken, directors – Navona Records 5809, 65:13 *****:Mr. Smith is a composer based in Philadelphia who is very active in the creation of church music, as well as other compositional and musical activities. ...
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Piffaro concert this weekend in Philadelphia & Wilmington! Don't miss it!
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Saturday, 5/9/09, 8:00 p.m.Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill8855 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia(with special after-party celebrating the release of our Piffaro’s newest CD)
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band CD Release Party! Be there! Sat. 5/9/09, Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
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Join members of Piffaro, the Crossing Choir, conductor Donald Nally, and composer Kile Smith after Piffaro’s concert on Saturday, May 9, 2009 for a VESPERS CD RELEASE PARTY. The concert is at 8:00 p.m. ...
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Piffaro to perform this weekend in Pittsburgh, PA at the Renaissance & Baroque Society. Details at www.rbsp.org.
Source: www.rbsp.org
Renaissance and Baroque - Presenters of Early Music performances in Pittsburgh
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Soprano Ellen Hargis joins Piffaro for Philadelphia area concerts, May 8-10.
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Piffaro audiences have heard Ellen in our 2001 and 2004 programs with The King’s Noyse. We are delighted that she returns to enchant us all, audience members and performers alike, with her beautiful voice and gracious stage presence.
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Piffaro in the News: David Patrick Stearn's article on the world premiere of "The Loathly Lady", featuring Piffaro, Parthenia, Susan Hellauer (Anonymous 4), Julianne Baird, and more.
...at piffaro.org.
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From the Philadelphia Inquirerhttp://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/david_patrick_stearns/20090331_What_do_women_want__Go_ask_Chaucer.htmlPosted Tue. Mar. 31, 2009
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Priscilla Smith talks about performing and recording Kile Smith's VESPERS (plus living in the composer's house... he's her father.)
Source: piffaro.org
Now that the final product is actually out there, for everyone to hear, I find myself looking back on the beginning stages of the Vespers. In case you don’t know, the composer, Kile Smith, is my father. ...
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Listen to Piffaro on the radio and/or online this weekend.
Source: piffaro.org
First up is “Crossover” with Jill Pasternak, who will be talking with The Loathly Lady librettist Wendy Steiner and composer Paul Richards. The interview will include performances by Piffaro, The Renaissance Band and Parthenia, Consort of Viols. Saturday morning, 3/21 at 11:30 a.m.
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
The new VESPERS cd featuring Piffaro and The Crossing choir is now available on Piffaro's website: piffaro.org/recordings/
Order your copy today!
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