LIBER : Ensemble for Early Music with Jordan Sramek

Venue: First Lutheran Church
Date: Fri March 26, 2010 8:00pm
City: Palo Alto
Price Range: $25 general/$22 members/$10 students
Tickets: 510-528-1725

San Francisco Early Music Society

Crowned with Laurels
Poetry and Music in Trecento Italy

“The music was so sweet that there was no one present who did not feel that his heart wanted to leap out of his breast with profound joy.”*

LIBER, recent winner of the prestigious Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, explores the elegant beauty and fiery emotions of fourteenth century Italian music. They pay tribute to the revered fathers of Humanism (Francesco Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Franco Sacchetti) through musical settings of their poems by Jacopo da Bologna, Niccolò da Perugia, and the poet-composer Francesco Landini, who was honored by King Peter of Cyprus with a crown of laurels.

*Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, “Paradiso degli Alberti”