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OCTOBER 2011
Psalmi ad Vesperas (1694)
Giovanni Paolo Colonna
Saturday, October 29, 2011, 7:30 pm
St. Philip Presbyterian Church, 4807 San Felipe, Houston, TX 77056 
Individual tickets go on sale August 1, 2011.
Purchase a subscription to the 2011-2012 season.
Hidden away for centuries in the archives of Westminster Abbey and the Central Library of Zürich, Giovanni Colonna’s monumental Vespers has recently come to light, thanks to the enterprising work of Greek musicologist Pyrros Bamichas. To his knowledge, the Houston Chamber Choir’s performance of the work is the first in modern times. Composed in 1694 for a grand festival at the Basilica of St. Petronio in Bologna, this piece calls for choir, soloists and string orchestra. His contemporaries called Colonna “the Orpheus of our century,” and the very fact that copies of the Vespers traveled to England and Switzerland attests to its popularity.
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