Community Event - Kingston - Melos Choir & Period Instruments
Melos Choir & Period Instruments, directed by Holly Gwynne-Timothy, presents “Light in the Dark - From Europe to Persia, 6th-19th century”, a concert of solace and light for winter’s darkest nights, featuring music for Advent, Christmas, and Yalda, on Friday 1 December at 7:30pm at St. George’s Cathedral in Kingston (at King and Johnson). Joining Melos Choir and Players will be special guests Navaa Band and David Roth, Baritone. Tickets cost $25, available at Novel Idea, at the door, or online at www.melos-earlymusic.org. A reception will follow to launch Melos' new CD/album, “Voces Feminarum”.
The program will move from darkness to light with a soothing and atmospheric program, including medieval chants for Advent; 16th century Christmas carols; passionate traditional love songs for Shabe Yalda (the Persian darkest night festival); and Charpentier’s Christmas Oratorio “In Nativitatem”, with baritone soloist, David Roth (of Capella Intima and Opus 8). Instrumentalists will perform on Tar, Setar, Tanbur, Oud, Percussion, Recorders, Strings and Harpsichord.
Light refreshment and celebration will follow the concert as Melos launches its recent recording: “Voces Feminarum, Women in Music, West & East, 6th-19th century”.
