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MUSIC IN LEÓN Singers and players of early instruments are warmly invited to a week which continues Lacock's pilgrimage to the great Spanish cathedrals. Our rehearsals will be housed in the imposing Seminario Mayor and we will give a concert in the cathedral, one of the great mediaeval buildings of Europe. León
is in northen Spain, an important staging post on the pilgrims' route to Santiago de Compostela. The theme of the course will be music associated with this pilgrimage. Santiago - St James - is the patron saint of Spain and the
subject of much veneration. O lux et decus Hispaniae is a hymn to the saint, calling him the light and grace of Spain and was set by many Spanish composers in the Renaissance, including Tomás Luis de Victoria, Don Fernando de las Infantas and Ambrosio Cotes. Other motets with Jacobean texts include Iste est qui ante alios Apostolos by Sebastián de Vivanco and Apostole Christi Iacobe by Cristóbal de Morales. We will also draw music from the Codex Las Huelgas, the Codex Calistinus, Llibre Vermell and other sources.
As is now customary with Lacock courses, we will choose the exact programme a few months before the course, when we have a more exact idea of the size and balance of the group. Competent players of renaissance plucked or wind instruments accustomed to public performance, especially bajones (curtals), cornetts and sackbuts, are also invited to join this course. Most of the music will be supplied in a printed booklet without extra charge; we may ask you to buy a few editions from other publishers.
Music in Entry to the course is restricted to competent instrumentalists and experienced and confident choral singers of all ages. You should be a good reader and be comfortable singing a line by yourself, be able to
manage a short solo passage (though of course you can always decline the request), have a blending voice with full dynamic range, be used to normal choral discipline and be able to respond quickly to direction – the aim being to
combine professional pace of work with amateur enthusiasm in a relaxed holiday setting. León
is just under three hours from Madrid by train. It can also be reached from airports to the north, Asturias and Bilbao, both of which have Easyjet flights from British airports. We have made arrangements for the group to stay at four centrally-placed hotels -
El Rincón del Conde, Paris, Hospedería Fernando I and Toral - and will allocated you a room
if you request it on the registration form. There are of course other possibilities for places to stay. We will eat together as a group in various restaurants in the city each evening. The course will begin with a
late afternoon session at 5pm on Sunday 26 August. Then from Monday to Friday we will have rehearsal sessions every morning from 9.30am to 1.00pm (with a break) and again in the early evening from 5.00pm to 7.00pm. We will
give a concert in the cathedral on Friday 31 August. The
fee for the course covers all the musical arrangements but not travel, meals or accommodation; it is paid in two parts: a deposit of £185 or €225 on registration (this will be returned in full if you have to withdraw before 1 July; after that you may hold it over to another course) and €220 on arrival. You may pay the deposit by any of these methods:
a sterling cheque for £185 payable to A van der Beek online transfer of £185 to account 00703787, sort code12-11-03, or for international transfers, in the Netherlands, a transfer of €225 elsewhere in the Euro area, transfer of €225 FOR A REGISTRATION FORM FOR MUSIC IN LEÓN, CLICK HERE. |
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