Cappella Clausura
Music to Lighten the Darkness
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United StatesAs the winter deepens and the days become shorter, we take this time to reflect on light and darkness - physical and emotional - and the challenges that we all face during this cold and lonely time. Cappella Clausura offers a performance on these subjects as a spiritual balm, with music by living women composers…
Capella Clausura presents Music to Lighten the Darkness
Emmanuel Church 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA, United StatesAs the winter deepens and the days become shorter, we take this time to reflect on light and darkness - physical and emotional - and the challenges that we all face during this cold and lonely time. Cappella Clausura offers a performance on these subjects as a spiritual balm, with music by living women composers…
Cappella Clausura presents All About Love
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United States +1 moreAll About Love “Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.” (From "Eros the Bittersweet", by Anne Carson) Too often throughout history, we've seen women's love and desire depicted through a male gaze, while authentic expressions of love and desire by women in art have been considered taboo. Cappella Clausura challenges this by…
All About Love
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United States +1 moreAll About Love "Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger." (From "Eros the Bittersweet", by Anne Carson) Too often throughout history, we've seen women's love and desire depicted through a male gaze, while authentic expressions of love and desire by women in art have been considered taboo. Cappella Clausura challenges this…
Cappella Clausura presents All About Love
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United States +1 moreAll About Love “Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.” (From "Eros the Bittersweet", by Anne Carson) Too often throughout history, we've seen women's love and desire depicted through a male gaze, while authentic expressions of love and desire by women in art have been considered taboo. Cappella Clausura challenges this by…
Capella Clausura presents Visions for a Kinder World
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United StatesVisions for a Kinder World How should we live our lives, in a world where bad things happen to good people? What kinds of love and grace do we owe to ourselves and each other? How can we create lasting change, peace, and justice, for all people? Cappella Clausura's mission has always been rooted in…
Capella Clausura presents Visions for a Kinder World
Emmanuel Church 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA, United StatesVisions for a Kinder World How should we live our lives, in a world where bad things happen to good people? What kinds of love and grace do we owe to ourselves and each other? How can we create lasting change, peace, and justice, for all people? Cappella Clausura's mission has always been rooted in…
Capella Clausura presents “‘in tongues’: Ruehr’s “Cassandra”
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United StatesMagic spells, prophecies, secrets, prayers; what happens when words mean more than what they say? Speech has the power to persuade, clarify, distort, and to move. It can even affect the way we remember things, the ways our minds encode memories. This program, centered around Elena Ruehr’s magnificent choral opera “Cassandra”, considers these questions. The…
Cappella Clausura presents Blood and Honey; Modern Visions of Hildegard
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United StatesCappella Clausura, an a cappella ensemble of eight to sixteen singers who perform music by Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary composers, present Hildegard's music for Saint Ursula at Grace Church in Newton. Hildegard von Bingen - the “patron saint” of Cappella - wrote an abundance of vivid music and poetry about Saint Ursula.…
Cappella Clausura Presents Worthy of the Highest Praise: Bembo and Vivaldi
Grace Episcopal Church 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, United States“Worthy of the Highest Praise: Bembo and Vivaldi” May 16th at 4 PM - Grace Episcopal Church on Newton Are you familiar with the name “Antonia Bembo”? How about “Antonio Vivaldi”? I’d wager that you’re familiar with the latter but not the former - which is exactly the point. Antonia Bembo was an Italian composer…