Name: Leçons de ténèbres
Start: 2023-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Old South Church

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Admin

Singer

Zachary Wilder

Tenor

Aaron Sheehan

Akiko Sato

Organ

Emily Walhout

Viola da gamba

Les Bostonades

Leçons de ténèbres -  (Lessons of Darkness)

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Boston

United States

Old South Church

Leçons de ténèbres Couperin,F

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Lessons of Darkness

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Regarded as the most famous ecclesiastical works by François Couperin (1668–1733), an eminent French Baroque musician during the rule of Louis XIV, the Leçons de ténèbres (“Tenebrae Readings”) are a surviving collection of three vocal pieces for one and two high voices and continuo for Maundy Thursday. (The other two collections of lessons for Good Friday and Holy Saturday are lost.) Published in 1714 and presumably written for the nuns of the Longchamp Abbey in the outskirts of Paris, the three lessons use the Latin text of the Book of Lamentations from the Old Testament, in which Jeremiah mourns the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians.

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