Luminescence Chamber Singers Garden of Earthly Delights
October 2 @ 7:30 pm
Luminescence Chamber Singers’ Garden of Earthly Delights draws a garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych De tuin der lusten.
Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure, not to mention generations of art critics, Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is ever-enigmatic. Whether it is interpreted as a paradise of indulgence or as a stark warning about moral decay during a time of rapid change, this art exudes dread and seduction in equal measure.
Luminescence Chamber Singers comprises Artistic Director and mezzo-soprano AJ America with sopranos Michelle Ryan, Rachel Mink, bass-baritone Alasdair Stretch, tenor Dan Walker and bass Lucien Fischer, under Artistic Mentor Roland Peelman AM. turn this surreal feast of the senses into an aural tapestry as pleasurable and perilous as Bosch’s vision. Drawn from the vaults of Renaissance raunch, Medieval monasterial excess and daring modern transgressions, Garden of Earthly Delights offers a vocal cornucopia of surprise and surreptitiously cheeky delight.
Program to include music by Josquin, Banchieri, Gallus and new works by Nicole Murphy and Archie Tulk.