Festival Sacred Realism 2024 (Day 1 of 3)

The Sacred Realism label presents an evening with Laura Steenberge to kick off its 13th anniversary festival.

⁍ Laura Steenberge, Piriforms (low version) (2010)

Owen Gardner, Catherine Lamb, Bryan Eubanks, Dylan Kerr (voices)

​​⁍ Laura Steenberge, The Ademar Studies (2024)

Talk and performance by Laura Steenberge on 72 Verses for St. Martial by Ademar de Chabannes, an eleventh-century monk

⁍ Laura Steenberge, Ademar Studies 2-4 (2024) for voice and viola da gamba

The 72 Verses for St. Martial, one of the earliest notated polyphonic compositions, has for many decades been considered monophonic by the academic establishment. However, in the 1990s musicologist Manuel Pedro Ferreira wrote a paper calling this into question. Steenberge builds on this work by showing how, when analyzed polyphonically, the structure of the music reveals a medieval map.