A WHOLE LOTTA NOYSE
A WHOLE LOTTA NOYSE
- When
- Sat Mar 21, 2009
- Where
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church - San Francisco
- Time
- 8:00pm
- Cost
- $12 - $28
- Tags
- Music, Classical Music
Description
San Francisco Choral Artists and Renaissance wind band The Whole Noyse premiere a new work offering a fresh perspective on a 16th century Mexican historical figure. The new composition “Marina” by Oakland-based composer Ted Allen uses Early instruments like recorders, sackbuts, cornetts and curtals, together with mixed chorus.The piece, based on a poem cycle by local poet Lucha Corpi, explores different aspects of a native woman known to the Spanish as Marina, who aided Hernán Cortés in the 16th Century in Mexico. Also known as La Malinche, she has acquired mythical status over the centuries, and has been both revered and reviled. A daughter of a noble Tabascan family, she was sold to Mayan traders as a girl to protect the inheritance claims of a half-brother. Eventually, she was given with other slaves to Cortes.
The program also features works by Brahms, Clemens, Distler, Lassus, Parker, and others as well as featuring selected instrument-only works.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.sfca.org
- Call
- 415-979-5779 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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