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Bawdy Banchieri

I hadn’t heard of the Italian Renaissance composer Adriano Banchieri (1567 — 1634) until the directors of the early music ensemble with which I perform decided to mount one of the Italian Renaissance composer’s pioneering madrigal comedies, Festino nella sera del giovedì grasso (“Entertainment for the eve of Carnival Thursday”) this summer. A madrigal comedy is a collection of madrigals strung together to present a comical story.

And the Festino is pretty nuts. In one of the movements, we all make different animal noises. I’m not talking about the flittering, rhythmic birdsong of a Janequin chanson that makes the listener think of owls and sparrows and cuckoos, but could just as easily not be about birds at all. I’m talking full-on dogs barking and cats meowing right in the middle of a piece of music.

Local music scholar Jospeh Sargent wrote a sweet little preview article about our concerts for San Francisco Classical Voice. Click here to read it. And click here to buy tickets to come and see/hear San Francisco Renaissance Voices perform Banchieri’s carnivalesque Festino on August 8 (at San Francisco’s 7th Avenue Performances in the Inner Sunset) and August 9 (at Alameda Presbyterian Church).

lies like truth

These days, it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between fact and fantasy. As Alan Bennett's doollally headmaster in Forty Years On astutely puts it, "What is truth and what is fable? Where is Ruth and where is Mabel?" It is one of the main tasks of this blog to celebrate the confusion through thinking about art and perhaps, on occasion, attempt to unpick the knot. [Read More...]

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