Music For a Time of Plague
Saturday Mar 4, 2023 - 7:30 PM
The Tallis Choir presents: Music For a Time of Plague
If the Covid Pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we are not that much different than our forebears. Our medicines may be more effective but even they have their limitations. Plagues have been with us throughout human history and little has changed. In Music For a Time of Plague, we look back at how composers reacted to plagues and pandemics and how it affected their music. The featured composition will be John Sheppard’s monumental Media Vita which, it is believed, he wrote to commemorate the death of a close friend who died of influenza when it swept through London in 1557, killing up to one in ten people in the city.
Tickets: $30, $25 and $10*