8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in St. Mary's Chapel at the St. Paul Seminary, 2260 Summit Ave:
The Rose Ensemble, the critically acclaimed Twin Cities early music ensemble, presents "Candlelight Concert: The Secret Society of Notre Dame de Paris." A pre-concert presentation begins at 7 p.m.
Here's how the ensemble describes this program:
"Scandal, satire, pilgrimage and politics: Enter Paris at a time when monks were scholars and fierce social commentators, bridging a deep religious faith with a passionate involvement in the secular affairs of a multicultural city. Paris in the 13th century was a starting and stopping point for pilgrims journeying to and from Santiago de Compostela, a more popular pilgrimage destination at the time than either Jerusalem or Rome. Latin was spoken on the street in the scholars' quarter, a city within a city, echoing with a language at once sacred, secular, poetic and political.
This is the world the Rose Ensemble brings to the modern stage with an ethereal candlelit concert of rhythmically complex, organic harmonies — a style said to be directly influenced by the syncopated hammering of the construction of the Cathedral of Notre Dame."
Tickets are $17, $25 and $35. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit
http://www.rosensemble.org.
http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/2 ... 2_1_08.cfm