Be the first to comment!A Concert of Sacred Music to be held at the Gozo Cathedral
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The Gozo Cathedral Church, within the Gozo Citadel, is to be the venue of a concert of Sacred Music given by the Leone Band A.D.1863 of Victoria, Gozo, this coming Tuesday, the 30th of March 2010, the eve of a National Holiday. The Leone Band will be under the baton of conductor Colin Attard.
With a fair balance between different genres and musical periods, the Leone Band are going to perform two funerary marches by Sicilian composers: Ah! Si Versate Lagrime (Oh! Yes, shed tears) by Eugenio Di Stefano, and Croce e Martirio (Cross and Martyrdom) by Giovanni Giumarra, former conductor of this said band. The 18th century Baroque period will be represented by Handel’s Largo and Albinoni’s Adagio while the subsequent Romantic period will present the Blessed Are They movement from Brahms’ requiem, an Adagio for Clarinet by Wagner (solo clarinet: Joseph Debrincat) and the Intermezzo from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana.
The Chorus Ecclesiae Cathedralis and the Cathedral Youth Choir, as resident choirs of the Cathedral church are to perform chorales and sacred motets respectively. They will then join the Leone Band to sing the funerary march La Croce – an ode to the Holy Cross composed by Orlando Crescimanno in 1911.
Sacred Music is an interesting and equally important section in the musical archives of the Leone Band. A great share of this section consists of funerary marches, which the band plays during the Good Friday processions. However, throughout its nearly century and half of existence, the band has continued to accumulate more and more sacred music.
The concert of sacred music at the Cathedral Church should be an interesting event for those visiting Gozo for their Easter Holidays. The concert will commence at 8pm and the general public is cordially asked to be seated ten minutes prior to the start of the programme. Entrance to the concert is free.
Further information can be obtained online: www.leone.org.mt, via email: info@leone.org.mt, or via telephone: 21562974.
