Andreas Knapp Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena kneels in concert.
The performance of sacred music in concert halls has become so common that we rarely pause to reflect on what is lost in translation. Outside its intended context, church music, like a Madonna displayed on a museum wall, loses its ritual power. What was conceived as an act of communal worship – a mass for the dead, a re-enactment of the Passion – becomes a professional spectacle offered up for the edification of a passive audience.
The performance of sacred music in concert halls has become so common that we rarely pause to reflect on what is lost in translation. Outside its intended context, church music, like a Madonna displayed on a museum wall, loses its ritual power. What was conceived as an act of communal worship – a mass for the dead, a re-enactment of the Passion – becomes a professional spectacle offered up for the edification of a passive audience.
- 4/19/2012
- by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Don't Miss Your Chance to Win Tickets to the Highly Anticipated Opening Nights Festival or to the sold out South Pacific. Be part of the excitement surrounding the new, dramatically transformed Alice Tully Hall when the box office reopens for business on Thursday, January 22, at 10 a.m., at the corner of 65th Street and Broadway. Wabc anchor Sade Baderinwa and Tony Award-winner and American Songbook star Paulo Szot will be on hand to mark this memorable occasion. And each person who purchases tickets to any event in Alice Tully Hall will be entered to win a pair of tickets to see South Pacific or back-to-back all-Beethoven concerts featuring The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as part of the Opening Nights Festival. This magnificent celebration of the new Alice Tully Hall takes place from February 22 through March 8. Tickets are available for $25. Artists appearing in a wide array of programs include Jordi Savall, tenor...
- 1/21/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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