Pierre du Prey
Professor Emeritus & Director of ACT
Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
pduprey@queensu.ca
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ACT – Architecture in the Classical Tradition
On 26 March 2012 by lane With 0 Comments
- Abstracts, Art History, Monuments and Memory, Uncategorised
My good friend, colleague and inspired teacher’s work. Pierre was one of the presenters at our Monuments and Memory conference here at GPRC a couple of years ago.
It is a pleasure to personally welcome you to my web site, Architecture in the Classical Tradition. I invite you to use it, to enjoy it, and to send me your impressions. My purpose in creating this web site starting in 1996 was to share with you my reflections based on over forty years of teaching, photographing, studying, writing about, and helping to preserve our built environment.
Ospedale della Pieta
Another documentary from the Beeb this one deals with Vivaldi’s creative relationship with the girls of the Ospedale della Pietà for whom he composed so much music.
Musicologists often blithely ignore the fact that Vivaldi wrote a lot of his music specifically for all woman and girl orchestras and choirs. I’ve never understood why this should be so difficult to grasp but apparently it is.
Vivaldi: Gloria (RV 589) – Domine fili unigenite – YouTube
Oh to be back in Venice. This is the church associated with the organization that runs the hostel where we have stayed many times. Last year we got a private tour of the church and were up in the spaces behind the screens where the girls sang from.Fantastic acoustics, I can only dream about how amazing it must sound with the girls.
Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi (“Vivaldi’s Women”) is an all-female ensemble of singers and players which aims to recreate the sound of Vivaldi’s Figlie di Choro, those foundlings at Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà who performed at Mass and Vespers from behind grilles in the high choir galleries or “cantorie”. It reflects the age range and vocal range of Vivaldi’s musicians, with women aged 14 to 60+, some singing tenor and bass. The group uses period instruments played at 18th-century Venetian pitch (A˜440Hz).
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