Thursday, June 14 at 5pm | Emmanuel Church

The ORLANDO CONSORT

The Rose, the Lily, and the Whortleberry: Medieval and Renaissance gardens in music

Robert Harre-Jones, countertenor; Mark Dobell & Angus Smith, tenor; Donald Greig, baritone;
Robert Macdonald, bass

Throughout history, the symbolic and allegorical allure of flowers has been irresistible to artists, poets, and composers who have delighted in the overt beauty and secret codes that flowers convey. This program of music by Machaut, Vásquez, Guerrero, Brumel, Crecquillon, and others explores the inventiveness of composers from the 13th to the 16th centuries who have employed floral imagery to illustrate earthly and heavenly love, in pure and sometimes erotic manners.

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The Orlando Consort