In the Garden of Delights:
Music Inspired by the Song of Songs

Thurs – Sat March 6 – 8 at 8pm
Sun March 9 at 3:30pm
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre

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Directed by Jeanne Lamon and Ivars Taurins
Concept and Musical programme by Alison Mackay
Poetry to be narrated.

Rufus Müller, tenor
Maryem Tollar, vocalist, qanun
Bassam Bishara, oud
Suleiman Warwar, percussion
Gershon Silins, Cantor of Temple Sinai

Kiss me, make me drunk with your kisses! Your sweet loving is better than wine.
Song of Songs  1:2

Apricots and pomegranates, figs and vine blossoms…the sensuous love poetry of the Song of Songs has inspired glorious music by composers of the baroque era and beyond.  Join members of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, and special guests, as we explore this ancient Hebrew poem. The concert features music by Buxtehude, Monteverdi, Vitali, Purcell, Schütz, J.C.F. Bach, J.S. Bach and Healey Willan, traditional Arabic and Hebrew music, and a new commission by Toronto composer Christos Hatzis.

This concert is part of the Sacred Spaces, Sacred Circles Arts Festival, a celebration of music and architecture, Spring of 2008.