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This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.—Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025 The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St.
Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.—Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025 At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.—Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021 After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.—Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 Two concerts in the Seaport district follow: Italian madrigals by the Franco-Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore (a recording of which has just been released) next Friday, and a 15th-century program next Saturday.—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019 Her two Rossi madrigals on texts by Giovanni Guarini were strong, heartfelt and rapturous in expression.—Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018 The late-Renaissance composer’s final work, a cycle of 21 madrigals, will be staged by director Peter Sellars in his Ravinia debut.—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018 Features madrigals from Books V, VI, VII and VIII, and concertato works from Selva Morale e Spirituale.—Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 2 Apr. 2018
Word History
Etymology
Italian madrigale, probably from Medieval Latin matricale, from neuter of *matricalis simple, from Late Latin, of the womb, from Latin matric-, matrix womb, from mater mother
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