{"id":2758,"date":"2025-12-09T00:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenpolishuk.com\/wordpress\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:03:08","slug":"the-toronto-consort-a-medival-christmas-a-father-on-the-breath-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenpolishuk.com\/wordpress\/the-toronto-consort-a-medival-christmas-a-father-on-the-breath-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toronto Consort .A Medival Christmas.A Father on the Breath of God."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Each of those present felt the mystery and mysticism, the beauty of the sound of Hildegard von Bingen’s music .Her Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum, featured soaring, mystical chants expressing divine light and cosmic harmony, distinct from Gregorian plainchant, with lyrics praising Mary, saints, and divine wisdom, including the famous morality play Ordo Virtutum, making her one of the earliest known composers with extensive surviving works that blend intense spiritual feeling with unique melodic lines, often linked to her prophetic visions and known to us as best medieval composer.Her melodies \u2014 wildly expressive, richly melismatic, and imbued with a profound spiritual imagination \u2014 feel timeless, as though she was channeling something far larger than herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearing this music on the Toronto Consort stage in December 2025 is a huge honor and a huge thank to the team of musicians who worked on the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opening remarks by the President Heather Turnbull<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is monophonic music 12th century,which is imbued with her spiritual vision. These are unique individual musical lines that unite into harmony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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