MUSIC

Concordian Dawn: Selections from Medieval Song, Aristotle to Opera

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2023
6:00 PM

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, New York Public Library
455 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

Free
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Busy day for Concordian Dawn! This show draws on companion performances that the ensemble did to a book by literary scholar Sarah Kay that argues that medieval song is best understood not as words set to music to be considered separately, but as comprehensive whole in which song is a way of sounding words. This leads to a very dramatic — Kay calls it operatic — style of performance, as you can hear this evening.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Sichuan at Cafe China.