Folger Consort, With Lionheart And Tom Zajac at Shakespeare Library

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 3, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Symphony orchestras may prefer "Danse Macabre" or "Night on Bald Mountain," but for early music performers and fans, the ultimate Halloween text is the "Dies Irae" ("Day of Wrath"), a medieval Latin poem about the end of the world: trumpets blaring, the Earth burned to ashes and the dead rising from their graves to face an eternal sentence to Heaven or Hell.

In the "Dance of Death" program, Friday night in the Folger Shakespeare Library, the "Dies Irae" was sung in the original Gregorian chant melody -- less vivid than the showpieces of the romantic era, but graced with a uniquely ...

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