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Date
- Monday, 28 November 2005
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Location
- The Hall, University House, ANU, Canberra
Discovering Musical Masterpieces From The Spanish Golden Age
A Lecture/Recital presented by The Embassy of Spain, the National Institute of the Humanities and Creative Arts and the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU
About the lecture
- This year marks the 400th anniversary of two towering monuments of Spanish culture: the publication in Madrid of both Miguel de Cervantes´s Don Quijote and Tomas Luis Victoria´s Requiem. In a wide-ranging lecture, Michael Noone explores the composition, perfomance and practice of music in Cervantes´s Spain
About the recital
- In addition to excerpts from the Victoria´s Requiem (hailed as "one of the most magnificent choral compositions of the entire literature"), the ANU Chamber Choir will present first performances of lost masterworks of the Spanish Golden Age recovered by Dr Noone from the archives of Toledo Cathedral, the subject of his research at the Humanities Research Centre ANU
About the author and conductor
- Michael Noone earned his PhD. at King’s College Cambridge and has taught at the University of Sydney, Cornell University, the University of Hong Kong and the ANU. His publications on Early Modern Spanish music include Music and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under the Habsburgs (Rochester University Press, 1998) described as a “trailblazer” and Códice 25 de la catedral de Toledo (Alpuerto, 2003).
- As a conductor he has recorded 10 CDs of Spanish Renaissance polyphony, the latest of which has been nominated “Choice of the Month” in the current issue of the BBC Music Magazine. In 2003/4 he directed world-premiere performances of unknown works by Guerrero, Morales et al. that he discovered in Spanish cathedral archives. In 2001 he founded the Ensemble Plus Ultra (see www.ensembleplusultra.com) with whom he has given concerts throughout the UK and Spain.