Early Music Michigan promotes high quality professional, amateur, and student performance and appreciation of early music. Traveling Musicians to Perform at SVSU with Songs of Ancient Pilgrims
February 20, 2013
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Visiting musicians will perform songs of ancient pilgrims in a concert at Saginaw Valley State University on Friday, Feb. 22. Titled "Taking the Way: Music of Pilgrimage," the concert will feature Early Music Michigan and the Hildegard Singers, and begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall.
Directed by Eric Strand, the groups will sing Gregorian chants dating back before the 1500s, along with musical compositions inspired by those chants. Early Music Michigan, based in Kalamazoo, is a self-governing troupe of singers and instrumental musicians who perform songs from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. The Hildegard Singers, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., focus on the hauntingly beautiful music of 12th-century German saint Hildegard of Bingen.
The concert is timed to coincide with an academic conference at SVSU titled "Striding toward Salvation: Medieval and Renaissance Pilgrimage in Europe and the Mediterranean." Arranged by SVSU's music and art departments, the conference will bring scholars from around the nation and beyond it to examine the lives of the people involved in different religious journeys. At 4 p.m. Friday, the departments will screen "And They Sang a New Song: Twenty-Four Musical Elders at Santiago de Compostela," a film by Eugene Enrico, Susan Havens Caldwell and Thomas Binkley that examines mysterious musical instruments depicted in friezes at a cathedral in northwestern Spain.
Admission to both the concert and the film are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call the SVSU Department of Music at (989) 964-4159.
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