Italian composer/pianist Angelo Comisso took on a challenging task when he decided to write contemporary music to one of the most powerful medieval hymns, Stabat Mater Dolorosa, that meditates on the ...

Sunday, March 23, is Easter Sunday. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night in St. Peter’s Basilica at 9 p.m. He will celebrate Holy Mass of the Day with the Resurrexit ...

Stabat Mater is a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic hymn attributed to Jacopone da Todi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother was standing").

Lyra Baroque Orchestra will sample some of the pieces of music written for the "Stabat Mater" hymn during a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Zumbro Lutheran Church in Rochester. "Stabat Mater" is a ...

The words of the Stabat Mater come from an ancient Latin text describing Mary weeping at the cross over her son, Jesus. While the Catholic poem has been set to music by many — from Vivaldi to Arvo ...

He lived fast and died young and after his death became world famous like no other musician before him. No it's not Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain but Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Hello I'm Geoff Wood ...

The late Twentieth-and early Twenty-First-Centuries have been a rich and productive period for sacred choral composers. Sir John Tavener (1944 -2013), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933 -2020), Henryk Górecki ...

Known locally as Crazy Jim, he had a habit of crawling on all fours, saddled and bridled like a donkey, around the main square of his native Todi, a hilltop town in Umbria. Yet he was one of the ...

The work is scored for 12-voice chorus and 11-piece ensemble. The voices are amplified and spatially projected around the hall, another paradoxically distancing effect. The ensemble is bass heavy, and ...

Stafford’s Meadow Farm in Montalba is now home of the Stabat Mater Foundation, whose goal is supporting Catholic religious artists. A key project of the organization is the recently constructed ...

Mar 30, 2023 - Apr 1, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM Add to Calendar 30-03-2023 12:00 01-04-2023 22:00 America/Toronto Global Edmonton supports: The Edmonton Opera – Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater A beautiful ...