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DISCANTUS Choir (Spain)

concert

20. 11. 2015 – Friday
8pm
Our Lady of Victory Church, ul. Łąkowa 42

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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Discantus Choir from Murcia

Conductor: Ángel Luis Carrillo Gimeno

Discantus Choir was established in 1995 thanks to the initiative of Angel Luis Carrillo Gimeno. There are around 80 members of the choir in its “Official section”, but there is also a chamber choir, children’s section, youth section and candidates’ section. Overall, there are about 400 active singers.

Throughout the 24 seasons of hard work, the ensemble achieved the title of the best choir in the country, offering concerts in China, the USA, Poland, Argentina, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and throughout Spain. The choir received awards at international and national competitions, also on Spanish TV and the radio.

There are 14 pieces included on their records, recorded in various styles. These are, e.g. “Stabat mater” by F. J. Haydn, “Romancero Gitano” by M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, “Cantos de nuestra Tierra”, “Nuestra Navidad”, “Misa Jubilar”, “F Canto”, “Pasion segun S Marcos” by J. S. Bach and “CD didactico con ejemplos corales” for the American publisher McGraw Hill and “Con Versiones”, with which they gave concerts in the US in August 2010. In September 2015 they presented their latest album “Discantus Latino”.

The Choir presents important pieces for choir in symphonic repertoire, such as “Passion of St Mathew” by Bach, “Messiah” by Handel, “Requiem” by Mozart, “Carmina Burana” by Orff and many more. It is the Choir’s characteristic to be flexible, that’s why there are also such pieces in their repertoire as “Romancero Gitano by Garcia Lorka, Argentinean oratorio “Navidad Nuestra” performed together with an Argentinean group Huella Pampeana, a concert “Gospel Americano” with Jimmy Williams and the Jazz Factory, the show of Cuban music “Son Cubanisimo” with a Cuban group Chocolate Latino, and many spectacles of zarzuela and opera presented throughout the whole of Spain.

 

Ángel Luis Carrillo Gimeno

Born in Murcia and since childhood tightly connected with the choir, as a child he participated as a singer and a soloist in various regional groups. At the same time, he studies the viola, organ and harpsichord at the Music Conservatory in Murcia. He received a higher degree in choir conducting at the Royal School of Music in London. As a composer, he has produced many pieces for choirs and orchestra. He received the first prize for his composition in the National Competition of Composers in Habanera in 2004 and composed music for many theatre spectacles. He also recorded many records as an accompanist, singer and a conductor of various children and youth choirs. As for education, he carried out various lectures, courses and conferences concerning conducting choirs, music pedagogy for Consejeria de Educacion in Murcia, at the University in Murcia, Catholic University of St Anthony, KUL in Poland and Federacion Coral Argentina. He is very keen on popularizing choir music among youth, established many youth choirs connected with schools in Murcia. Currently, he is a professor of music education and a conductor of “Discantus” choir in Murcia, and also co-ordiantes the workshops of the UCAM Symphonic Orchestra.

 

Programme

Part I (Spanish music)

Catholic hymn written by St Bernard of Claraval
Lamentation Adoration of the Cross — Good Friday
Catholic prayer based on Gospel according to St Luke 1,28
Office of Readings at Christmas
From “Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae” — Gospel according to St Lukas 23, 44-46
From “Officium Defunctorum”
From Eucharistic hymn “Vexilla Regis”
Hymn by St Thomas Aquinas for Corpus Christi
From the poem “Tres Cantares” by Antonio Machado

Part II

Anthem and hymn from the liturgy of Good Friday
From the mass “In Coena Domini” from Holy Thursday
According to Matthew 3-9
Psalm 130
Introit Feria V “In Coena Domini” — Holy Thursday
Introductory prayer from “Via Crucis” for Good Friday
Psalm 29
A fragment from a mass for the dedication of the church
The last words of Christ on the cross — Mathew 27:46

Encore

Psalm 150