{"id":111366,"date":"2025-01-30T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=111366"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:00:01","slug":"preview-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-presents-visionaries-vivaldi-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2025\/01\/30\/preview-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-presents-visionaries-vivaldi-da-vinci\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Presents Visionaries: Vivaldi & Da Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graphic from Jocelyn Hagen’s The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Image courtesy of TMChoir)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two blockbuster works take up the program for the next concert featuring the TMSingers conducted by Jean-S\u00e9bastien Vall\u00e9e, including Vivaldi\u2019s popular Gloria, and Jocelyn Hagen\u2019s fascinating multimedia work, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.<\/p>\n

The TMSingers are the choir\u2019s core professional ensemble. They\u2019re currently accepting applications for an audition; details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Music<\/h2>\n

Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV 589<\/h3>\n

Vivaldi\u2019s Gloria is a setting of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo, and it\u2019s estimated that the words date back to the 4th century, when they became an integral part of the Latin mass. The composer wrote three Glorias, and only two of them survive. RV 589 is the most popular, and most widely performed.<\/p>\n

The work was most likely written between 1713 and 1717, while Vivaldi was stationed as a priest at the Santa Maria della Piet\u00e0 church in Venice. It consists of 12 movements, and falls into the genre of cantata-mass. It\u2019s speculated that he wrote it for the orphaned and abandoned girls who lived in the charitable home called Ospedale della Piet\u00e0. Vivaldi taught the girls music and was known to have composed music for their choir.<\/p>\n

As a cantata-mass, the text is sung in snippets that are given various treatments by the instruments, soloists, and full choir. The music is textural and expressive, and incorporates vocal and instrumental fireworks among its shifting moods, including elements that come from popular Venetian music of he era.<\/p>\n