Summer Sings 2023!
St. Anne Church has agreed to host Musica Spei’s Summer Sings! We will be meeting Wednesday evenings at 7:30pm, from July 12th through August 16th. Except for Wednesday July 19, we will be singing in the Sanctuary. Look for signs on the Atrium doors noting where we will be singing each week. IF you arrive late (after 8:30PM) the Atrium doors may be locked. Please call the phone number of the sign to let someone know that you are here.
Summer Sings
Every summer, Musica Spei offers a series of informal, just-for-fun early-music “sings” open to anyone who wants to participate. Here’s how it works:
Wednesday evenings from mid-July to mid-August, interested singers and listeners join us, in the resonant splendor of St. Anne Church, to sight-read choral works from the medieval and renaissance periods. Sitting in a circle, with a member of Musica Spei giving pitches and generally keeping time, we sing our way through pieces from our own music collection and from the early-music collection at the Sibley Music Library.
Feel free to join us, especially if
you’re intrigued by early choral music (by composers like Palestrina, Byrd, Josquin, Tallis, Gesualdo, Victoria, and Compère)
you have some sight-singing experience (keep in mind that we can try to seat you near a strong sight-reader in your voice part)
you’re interested in singing 4, 5, 6, and 8-part polyphony
you’d like to meet people who share your passion for music
We invite participants to contribute $3 per session to defray our photocopying costs.
We particularly encourage those who might be interested in auditioning with Musica Spei to come to a Summer Sing (or three!), to find out more about what this music is all about. Please identify yourself to the person leading the Sing, so that we know you might like to audition, as we are always on the lookout for singers we think might complement our sound and fit in well.