Miller Theatre Welcomes The Tallis Scholars in CHRISTMAS ACROSS CENTURIES

By: Nov. 06, 2015
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Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts wishes you Happy Holidays with Christmas Across Centuries featuring The Tallis Scholars.

Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 W. 46th Street)

Tickets: $40-$55 • Students with valid ID: $7-$33
www.millertheatre.com/events/christmas-across-centuries.

With radiant harmonies and cascading polyphony, early music has beguiled Miller audiences since the theater's founding. Today's masters of period performance bring this ancient music to life, each employing their own signature style. This season, the Orlando Consort present a thrilling new project: Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic silent film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arcaccompanied by a live score of medieval music. We'll also hear from returning favorites The Tallis Scholars, Le Poème Harmonique, and New York Polyphony, while the Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis make their Miller debut.

The peerless Tallis Scholars return to the picturesque sanctuary of St. Mary's with a celebration of Christmas. The holiday mass Puer natus est nobis captures Renaissance master Thomas Tallis at his most splendid and complex, perfectly paired with celebratory works by his contemporary John Sheppard. The program also includes a pair of works by Arvo Pärt, whose crystal clear counterpoint is a perfect fit for The Tallis Scholars. Pärt's love of polyphony, and his respect for his 16th-century forebears, shines in these graceful works.

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serve the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.



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