On Sunday, October 11, 2015 Princeton University Concerts will present two performances by the Gallicantus Renaissance Vocal Ensemble to unveil the new series PUC125: Performances Up Close. The performances will take place at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
On Sunday, October 11, 2015 Princeton University Concerts will present two performances by the Gallicantus Renaissance Vocal Ensemble to unveil the new series PUC125: Performances Up Close. The performances will take place at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
In a program titled “Songs of the Sybil,” Gallicantus will offer the only existing complete setting of the twelve Sibylline prophecies as composed by Orlande de Lassus, paired with works by the celebrated “Sibyl of the Rhine” Hildegard von Bingen, as well as new compositions by Princeton professors Dan Trueman and Dmitri Tymoczko.
During their sold-out visit to Princeton last season, Gallicantus commissioned Princeton University graduate faculty to create new musical settings of the Sybils’ prophecies. The result? Come hear Professor Dan Trueman’s transformation of these texts into Irish Gaelic, and Professor Dmitri Tymoczko’s imagining what the Sybil of Baltimore, Detroit and other U.S. cities might have to say about the state of our country today. Such re-imagination of the “classical” will be at the core of this event—from its program, to the brand-new format in which the concert will be presented.
Princeton University Concerts has entirely reconceived the concert-going experience through PUC125. At each of the only one-hour-long events in this series, audience members will have a choice of two performance times in which to experience this event and the concert will take place in-the-round, enabling the audience to surround and interact with the performers on the stage.
Tickets to the event are $25 to the general public and $10 for students. Tickets are available online at princetonuniversityconcerts.org, by phone at (609) 258-9220, or in person two hours prior to the concert at the Richardson Auditorium Box Office.
