Part of the Da Camera at The Menil Series

SEQUENTIA/BENJAMIN BAGBY
FRAGMENTS FOR THE END OF TIME

Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 2:30 PM
Rothko Chapel, 3900 Yupon

Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby, voice, harp, symphonia; Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes, harps)

Vocalist, harpist and scholar Benjamin Bagby has been a trailblazer in the field of medieval musical performance for almost 30 years. Following a critically acclaimed recording of this largely unknown repertoire from circa 1000, Bagby explores the surprising and powerful apocalyptic texts – some of them surviving only as fragments – which terrified early medieval Christians. Declaiming the texts and singing in ancient dialects, Benjamin Bagby hauntingly reconstructs a forgotten musical tradition that hovers between ancient epic and early liturgical music.

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