PERFORMANCES

Our next concert, Love: Sacred and Profane, an exploration of expressions of love, will be directed by newly appointed Dr. Isabelle Ganz.

The concert takes place on Friday, April 23, 2010 at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard @ Greenbriar in the Rice Village. Reservations may be made by emailing prsingers@gmail.com or at the door.

Houston’s professional viol consort, the Z-Viols, will accompany the chorus. The noted musician and early-music specialist Mary Springfels, former director of the Newberry Consort of Chicago, leads the viols.

Selections from the 1610, the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin will be presented observing the 400th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s signal work. The concert will also include madrigals, sacred and profane, of the Italian composers Palestrina, Gesualdo, Marenzio, and d’India. English composers featured in the program include John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, John Farmer, and John Bennett.