MUSIC
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
8:00 PM

MATA
Church of St. Francis Xavier
46 West 16th Street, Union Square, Manhattan

Free (donation discretionary)
https://matafestival.org/divine-mysteries-angeloi/

New Music written for period Early Music instruments is a piquant, enticing proposition.  The tangy sonorities of the old instruments encourage interesting timbral constructions from modern-day composers.  Here we have two new pieces inspired by or setting old Catholic liturgy.  It's all played and sung by Cantata Profana, a local vocal/instrumental chamber ensemble that specializes in both New and Early Music, whose programming is consistently compelling and whose performances are fully worthy of the programs.  Hearing this stuff in this ornate church should be quite an experience.

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