BEER Ch. 4 The Red Herring

[Dave Monroe]

Present Music and special guests will perform the remarkable 40-voice
masterpiece Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis alongside David Lang's
Tallis-inspired 40-voice I Never.  The program will feature Caroline
Shaw’s Sarabande, Fly Away I and Fly Away III, Punctum, and Cantico
delle creature. Keeping with the Present Music Thanksgiving tradition
of friendship and inclusion, join in the opening and closing songs by
the Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group and sing along to
The Way Old Friends Do composed by Björn Kristian Ulvaeus of ABBA.

http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/thanksgiving-2013.aspx

On 10/23/13, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Also Thomas Tallis, English Composer, 1505-1585. Famous mostly for his
> theme in "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughn
> Williams, a work colorfully cited in Against the Day.
>
> On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>
>>
>> Tallis
>>
>> A tallit [taˈlit] (Hebrew: טַלִּית) (talet in Modern Hebrew,
>> Sephardic
>> Hebrew and Ladino) (tallis, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) pl.
>> tallitot (talleisim, tallism, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) is a
>> Jewish prayer shawl.... In orthodox, Ashkenazi circles, a Tallit is
>> customarily presented to a groom before marriage as part of the dowry.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallit
>
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