forthcoming concert:
Music of the Reformation
Sunday 12 November 2017 at 4.30 pm
St John's Church, Newbury, RG14 7PY
A short afternoon concert which features music from the first 100 years of the German Reformation, on its 500th anniversary. Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses were published on 31st October 1517; they were printed off and posted on church doors, as was the custom in Wittenberg University, and started what would nowadays be described as a Twitterstorm - a pamphlet war enabled by the newly-invented printing press. But what happened to musical practices after the movement took hold? Come and discover in this whistle-stop tour. There's music by Martin Luther himself and his contemporaries and featuring works by Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz.
with
Matthew Nisbet (theorbo & lute)
Tickets (see below) £15.00 (school pupils free)
to include tea & cake during the interval
with
Matthew Nisbet (theorbo & lute)
Tickets (see below) £15.00 (school pupils free)
to include tea & cake during the interval
