A Garden of Divers Delytes

Spring Concert

Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players presents their spring concert on May 7, 2023.  Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm. Concert at 7:30 pm.

This "divers(e)" program brings together works from Renaissance and modern periods, and from both European and Indigenous cultures. In the Indigenous tradition, special guest Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes will perform a Welcome Song. Our concert will feature several pieces by Canadian Cree composer, Andrew Balfour, with music by Renaissance/Baroque composers (Gibbons and Purcell) and new Cree texts. 

Selections from the early music repertoire will include beloved works such as Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus and Tallis’ If Ye Love me. We will also introduce you to the obscure and innovative English early Baroque composer, George Jeffreys (c.1610-1685).  Organist Jim Picken will join the choir to perform Jeffreys’ He Beheld the City.  And because 2023 is the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, we have chosen a madrigal by each of them  for this concert. 

We are delighted to present original compositions by CRSP Artistic Directors, past and present:  Anthony Petti, Peter Togni, Jane Perry and Paul Grindlay.

Presented by: Calgary Renaissance Singers and Players

Genre: Choral