MATER DOLOROSA

Internationally-renowned duo for voice and lute, Mignarda, will present their second annual concert commemorating the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. The 130-year-old sanctuary of Immaculate Conception Church in Cleveland provides a perfect setting for the evocative music of the late 15th century. Mignarda and friends will perform rarely-heard historical arrangements of music by Agricola, Binchois, DuFay, and Ockeghem, featuring Josquin’s Stabat Mater Dolorosa.

Mignarda will be be joined by guest artists Malina Rauschenfels on voice and viol, and David J. Rothenberg on lute. Dr. Rothenberg, author of “The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music”, published by Oxford University Press, will add contextual remarks describing how many seemingly secular love songs of the 15th century may have been conceived as devotional songs dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Ron & Donna first met at Immaculate Conception singing together in the schola cantorum for the Latin Mass, and they are delighted to present this evocative program on home ground, in the glorious acoustic that suits this music so well.

Call (216) 431-5900 or www.mignarda.com for more information. Free-will offering. Free, off-street parking in church lot.

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