https://www.facebook.com/events/1118027994916483/Concert in Parliamentary Library of Georgia on May 13 at 7 pm. Come to listen to 9 singing Dutchmen!
Thirty years of singing a-cappella music from over seven centuries.
The Barbers & Bishops have a unique combination of men’s voices - ranging from deep full basses to high counter-tenors - and a huge variety in repertoire. The nine gentlemen of the group are masters in singing multiple styles of a-cappella music. They mix the sound from ages gone with Renaissance and Romantic pieces as effortlessly as they combine pop music with modern classical styles. With this diverse repertoire they feel just as much at home in a solemn Cathedral, as they do at the local pub. By taking music out of their natural or temporal context the Barbers & Bishops search for new insights and connections.
During our tour of Georgia we’ll explore the marvelous sounds of Morales and Gallus as well as the pop music from our modern age.
An up-tempo mambo in Little Feat’s ‘The Ingenue’ is a flamboyant beginning to the programme, but we will the quickly turn to the more serious side of music. We will divide ourselves in two choirs for Gallus’ magnificent ‘Duo Seraphim’ only to come together again for ‘Circumdederunt me’ by the early Sixteenth-century composer Morales.
After a quick detour with Toto’s ‘Africa’, we’ll perform a little experiment. One of Hollands earliest composers is paired with one of Georgia’s latest, while we mix Sweelinck’s ‘Psalm 23’ with three astonishing ‘Alleluia’s’ written by Nino Janjgava. These pieces, that have been written hundreds of years apart, complement each other beautifully. We are pretty sure that we are the first to seek this connection.
Polish composer Henryk Gorecki wrote ‘Totus Tuus’ in the Nineteen-eighties and with that modern piece we introduce our a-cappella pop music compilation, in which we will perform pieces by The Beatles, Lou Reed, Queen and Radiohead. To conclude the concert we will be wishing you a fond farewell with Billy Joel’s ‘Lullaby’.
The Barbers & Bishops perform without a conductor. The group currently consist of Henk de Groote, Ardo Ebbinge, Jan Brink, Vincent Tichelman, Karel Blommesteijn, Willem Schreuder, Frans Bremer, Frank de Ruyter (Musical director) & Gerard Vromans.
If you would like a taste of the kind of music we provide, you can visit our Youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/barbersbishops), or listen to some of our CDs via Spotify, Amazon.com or iTunes.
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