Event Page: https://musicivic.net/mc21-0006

Artists

Alkemie

Tracy Cowart (voice, harp, percussion)

David McCormick (vielle, percussion)

Elena Mullins (voice, percussion)

Sian Ricketts (voice, douçaines, recorders)

Niccolo Seligmann (vielles, gittern, scheitholt)

Program

Printable Program

MIRRORING THE OTHER: REFLECTING JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN MEDIEVAL GERMANY

Alkemie looks at the Jewish experience in medieval Germany through newly-composed musical settings of Jewish texts and transcriptions of extant chant, monophonic (one voice) & polyphonic (multiple-voice) works. Stories are drawn from Yiddish epic tales and the Codex Manesse, as well as secular songs, religious poems, liturgical texts, and contemporary chronicles. Delight in the antics of an early Purimshpil and the onomatopoeic sounds of medieval life as well as the sheer beauty of the earliest Jewish chants that survive in Western notation.