The Renaissance Players: Andalusian Honey
September 30th 2010 07:44
Link: www.mca-tix.com.au
The Renaissance Players
Directed by Winsome Evans
ANDALUSIAN HONEY
19 and 20 October 2010
From biblical times, honey symbolised the sweetness and goodness of life. Thus Andalusian Honey is a melting pot of sweet music and poetry from various Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultural traditions of Andalusia.
El-Andalus was the name associated with the Iberian peninsula conquered and controlled by North African (“Moorish”) invaders in 710 AD. Slowly, over eight centuries, the so-called Christian Reconquest recovered control of the peninsula until finally, in 1492, the Christian rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella expelled Jews and Muslims from their kingdom.
The main focus of the concerts will be on the mediaeval Christian cantigas de Santa Maria, Hebrew and Arabic poetry, juxtaposed with the traditional songs of Spanish-Jewish (Sephardic) exiles in their new homeland settlements in the Ottoman Empire. In exile, the Sephardim doggedly preserved Judezmo, the traditional Spanish language of their beloved, former Iberian homeland.
The Renaissance Players are Australia's oldest and most famous early music performers - with 40 years of concert, broadcast and recording history behind them.
Their founder and director Winsome Evans BEM OAM is an official Australian Living Legend and Australia's undisputed early music performance practice expert. She plays more than two dozen instruments and her concert stage and recording career spans most venues in Australia and many overseas and the production of almost 20 internationally released (and critically acclaimed) albums.
The outstanding voices of Nicole Thomson and Jenny Duck-Chong will be accompanied by six instrumentalists - Professor Evans, James Wannan, Llew Kiek, Andrew Lambkin and Gina Tedeschi. They will be playing a huge collection of ancient and traditional instruments, including: doucaine, shawms, bombarde, duct flute, harps, psaltery, organetto, gemshorn, vielles, rebecs, ud, mandora, chittara moresca, baglamas, diwan saz, darabukka, tapan, daireh, zils and tambourine. Poetry and traditional tales will be read by long-time 'bard' to the group Geoff Sirmai.
It is also interesting that this is Sydney audiences’ first chance to see the ARIA award-nominated-CD-recording combination of Winsome, Llew, Jenny, Andrew and Geoff together in The Renaissance Players since 1992!
The Renaissance Players: Andalusian Honey
Tues 19 and Wed 20 October 2010 at 7pm
Great Hall, Sydney University
Tickets: $35 Available at the door
Phone bookings from: MCA Ticketing on 1300 306 776 or online www.mca-tix.com.au
Directed by Winsome Evans
ANDALUSIAN HONEY
19 and 20 October 2010
From biblical times, honey symbolised the sweetness and goodness of life. Thus Andalusian Honey is a melting pot of sweet music and poetry from various Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultural traditions of Andalusia.
El-Andalus was the name associated with the Iberian peninsula conquered and controlled by North African (“Moorish”) invaders in 710 AD. Slowly, over eight centuries, the so-called Christian Reconquest recovered control of the peninsula until finally, in 1492, the Christian rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella expelled Jews and Muslims from their kingdom.
The main focus of the concerts will be on the mediaeval Christian cantigas de Santa Maria, Hebrew and Arabic poetry, juxtaposed with the traditional songs of Spanish-Jewish (Sephardic) exiles in their new homeland settlements in the Ottoman Empire. In exile, the Sephardim doggedly preserved Judezmo, the traditional Spanish language of their beloved, former Iberian homeland.
Their founder and director Winsome Evans BEM OAM is an official Australian Living Legend and Australia's undisputed early music performance practice expert. She plays more than two dozen instruments and her concert stage and recording career spans most venues in Australia and many overseas and the production of almost 20 internationally released (and critically acclaimed) albums.
The outstanding voices of Nicole Thomson and Jenny Duck-Chong will be accompanied by six instrumentalists - Professor Evans, James Wannan, Llew Kiek, Andrew Lambkin and Gina Tedeschi. They will be playing a huge collection of ancient and traditional instruments, including: doucaine, shawms, bombarde, duct flute, harps, psaltery, organetto, gemshorn, vielles, rebecs, ud, mandora, chittara moresca, baglamas, diwan saz, darabukka, tapan, daireh, zils and tambourine. Poetry and traditional tales will be read by long-time 'bard' to the group Geoff Sirmai.
It is also interesting that this is Sydney audiences’ first chance to see the ARIA award-nominated-CD-recording combination of Winsome, Llew, Jenny, Andrew and Geoff together in The Renaissance Players since 1992!
The Renaissance Players: Andalusian Honey
Tues 19 and Wed 20 October 2010 at 7pm
Great Hall, Sydney University
Tickets: $35 Available at the door
Phone bookings from: MCA Ticketing on 1300 306 776 or online www.mca-tix.com.au
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