Christmas workshop with Robert Hollingworth

Midlands Early Music Forum

Expect a wonderful day with one of MEMF's favourite Tutors - Robert Hollingworth - to get you in the spirit of Christmas!  Robert has not told us which of Benevoli’s four masses we will be singing – he is still editing them! This is an opportunity to discover a really important figure – a lost link if you like – in the world of multi-choir music in the mid-seventeenth century: ORAZIO BENEVOLI.  We will get to know a newly edited mass for four choirs and this time (unlike so much Venetian music) the choirs are manageable by all voices so plenty of male voices please

We will also be singing Sweelinck’s Hodie Christus Natus Est to get us in the Christmas spirit and there will be mince pies!

Pitch =A440 suitable for strings, recorders, cornetts,  sackbuts and dulcians doubling the choral parts, and continuo including theorbo and bass instruments.