2019-2020 Season
The Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players’ 2019-2020 season is the start of our glorious 50th anniversary celebration. The season started with a stunning, sold out Christmas performance. Unfortunately, COVID-19 interrupted this anniversary season, so our 50th season will now extend to 2021 and include our official anniversary concert.
PAST CONCERTS
CRSP Presents • Renaissance Treasures I: Gloria!
December 8, 2019
St. Stephen’s Anglican Church – 1121 14 Avenue SW, Calgary
We open our 50th-Anniversary Season on Sunday, December 8 at 7:30pm at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church with a concert entitled Renaissance Treasures I: Gloria!
The performance will feature the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), one of the most revered of all Renaissance composers. Audiences will hear a Palestrina setting of Hodie Christus natus est, his motet Tu es Petrus, and the CRSP choristers’ particular favourite: Sicut cervus.
Along with sacred music, the choir will perform secular madrigals such as O Metaphysical Tobacco and Thomas Weelkes’ Thule the Period of Cosmography, the only Renaissance madrigal that mentions a place name in the lands that became known as Canada. The concert will also include a section entitled Vox Femina, a celebration of some of early music’s outstanding female composers.
Joining us onstage will be long-time CRSP instrumentalists John van Leeuwen (recorder) and Joan Kent (Baroque cello). Enhanced by the gorgeous sanctuary acoustic at St. Stephen’s, this will be an unforgettable concert. Please join us!