Voices begins its tenth anniversary season this Sunday afternoon. Under the direction of Music Director William Weinert, Rochester’s professional chamber chorus will present a Renaissance-era program titled “Sing Out, My Tongue”. The main work, and the concert’s namesake, will be Josquin des Prés’ “Pange Lingua” Mass–a masterpiece of the Renaissance, but rarely heard in live performance. Josquin built his mass on the one of the great Gregorian hymns, “Pange Lingua,” and it combines a careful, detailed structure with bold, virtuosic musical flourishes. A mass for the masses, you might say. The rest of the Voices program will offer pure vocal bliss, in the form of motets by Josquin and his 15th- and 16th-century contemporaries Ludwig Senfl, Johannes Ockeghem, and Jean Mouton.
Voices will present “Sing Out, My Tongue”on Sunday, September 23, 3 p.m. at Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue. Free. 271-1050 for Asbury FUMC. erchoirs.org/voices1.
This article appears in Sep 19-25, 2018.
