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Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Matthew Venner, countertenor
Mark Dobell, tenor
Angus Smith, tenor
Donald Greig, baritone
Robert Macdonald, bass
Eclectic Orange Series sponsored by Judith and Howard Jelinek
with additional support from Bette and Wylie Aitken
Pre-concert lecture by Jean Drum, 7pm
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Film by Carl Theodor Dreyer
One of Britain’s leading Medieval and Renaissance vocal ensembles, The Orlando Consort creates a stunning live soundtrack to Carl Theodor Dreyer’s monumental 1928 silent film biography of the saint and martyr. “Our version is…the first entirely a cappella soundtrack, a particularly appropriate mode of expression given that voices instructed the proto-feminist French saint,” explains baritone Donald Greig.
Hear medieval songs composed during the lifetime of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) sung in live accompaniment to the silver screen.
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