Giesta

This weekend in Utrecht! “El camino se hace cantado” (the path is made by walking) by Giesta.

📍Saturday 21st of March 15:30 Augustinuskerk, Utrecht

With an historical performance background, Joana and Irene tap into the overlap between early western notated music and oral traditions and reinvent them, often incorporating theatrical and storytelling elements.

This program includes a special arrangement of a Cantiga de Santa María. These 13th century songs tell miracles performed by the virgin Mary through beautiful melodies and many strophes in an old language called Galico-Portuguese. Modern day performers of this repertoire face this question: how to tell the story, which is in this largely unknown language, while preserving the mesmerising melody and form?

In this case, Joana re-worked one of these cantigas making the story its protagonist and arranging the music in a way that supports the plot and brings it closer to our 21st century understandings.

👸A Madre de Déus tant’ há en si gran vertude, Cantigas de Santa María, Codex Principal de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial outside Madrid (c. 1250) 👸

We will be performing the full program on the 21st of March in Utrecht. Thank you to the Society of Saint James for the invitation!

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with Irene Sorozabal Moreno, Joana Guiné
and Andrade on video, sound and editing

March will be full of many other good things including:

Folklore Days oganized by Giesta, in Splendor
20th, 21st and 22nd of March