Wayfaring Stranger
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“Lionheart embodies the best qualities of the early music movement—they are consummate musicians who really love an audience.” —The Kansas City Star
Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music
Lionheart is one of America’s leading ensembles in vocal chamber music, best known for its interpretation of medieval and Renaissance a cappella music, with Gregorian Chant as the keystone of its repertoire. Inspired by the traditional American folk song of the same name, with
Wayfaring Stranger Lionheart embarks on a concert journey through hundreds of years of sublime a cappella music. From the still modern-sounding early music sonorities of Perotin and Machaut to the sensual chromaticism of Cipriano de Rore to the soulful incantations of 1960s pop icon Laura Nyro, Lionheart presents the old and the new in surprisingly vivid and engaging juxtapositions.
Tickets: $32 adults, $30 seniors 65+, $16 children 12 and under, $24 UR employees, UR students FREE
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LionheartPosted: November 5, 2007; 21:24
by: Michael They're very good at what they do. The problem is....what they do. Excellent voices, fantastic blend....but not a very interesting concert overall. Their selections were rather one-dimensional, compared to the likes of Chanticleer, Western Wind, the King's Singers, and other noted a capella groups. I'm sure that New York City has a community of people who are deeply into this sort of music, but its audience appeal is somewhat limited for the rest of us. Very sleep-inducing.
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re: LionheartPosted: November 15, 2007; 17:27
by: Norma I agree with Michael. It was not a very enjoyable evening with no intro-
duction about the performance or of types of music and no opportunity to
applaud, if one wished to do so. I will not attend Lionheart again. Norma
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re: LionheartPosted: January 23, 2008; 21:46
by: Ben I'm sure that they are very talented, but I had a difficult time enjoying it after the first song. It seemed like it was very repetitive and it became one of the longest performances of my life. I would have left at Intermission, but there wasn't one.
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