Bennett was a subtle guide … conveying the music’s messages through gestures that nurtured the expressive moment.
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Archive for September 2008
A keen sense of shading and shape pervaded everything the chorus touched.
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New Choir, Quire, Offer Joyous Debut
Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer
In olden days, a choir was known as a quire. The spelling may be considered obsolete now, but not the concept, as the newest professional ensemble in town appears happy to proclaim.
The debut concert of Quire Cleveland on Wednesday at St. John’s Cathedral in downtown Cleveland ends a drought of two decades. Not since the Robert Page Cleveland Singers closed shop has the city possessed a professional chorus. As led by Peter Bennett, a British-born faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Quire Cleveland has set out to explore unaccompanied works mostly from the late medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras.
Bennett and his 18 singers introduced themselves with a bounty of sacred English music from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The program’s title, “Sing Joyfully,” was reflected in sophisticated, alert artistry. Read the rest of this entry »
Quire on WKSU
Vivian Goodman reports
Tonight “at the Cathedral of St. John in downtown Cleveland, 16 angelic voices herald the debut of Northeastern Ohio’s newest ensemble: its first professional choir since the Robert Page Singers faded to a whisper 10 years ago. We listened to sacred music written by William Byrd in 1575, at a recent rehearsal…” (wksu.org) or listen here…
Debut Concert: “Sing Joyfully!”
sacred choral music from Tudor England
The 2008-09 season of the Helen D. Schubert Concert Series opens with the début performance of Quire Cleveland in a concert entitled “Sing Joyfully!” — featuring sacred choral music from Tudor England. The program includes William Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices, as well as works by Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, and Thomas Weelkes.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 7:30 pm
St. John Cathedral
1007 Superior Avenue East
Cleveland, Ohio
This concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. For more information, call 216-771-6666 or email gheislman@dioceseofcleveland.org.
