Due to safety concerns regarding the COVID–19 virus, APERI ANIMAM and fellow Milwaukee-based choir Chant Claire will be live–streaming Mother and Child in lieu of a public concert. Please join us online at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. During this time of uncertainty, it is important that we still find a way to come together—this concert’s message of unconditional love and compassion is more relevant than ever.
This collaborative program is its own sort of Marian juggling-act, tossing up into this reverberant space music of the 16th and 21st centuries, texts tangentially related to Mary and texts explicitly addressing her and music newly composed to ancient texts. All are united by the primal bond described in Brian Keeble’s poem set in Tavener’s Mother and Child: The mother’s gaze in turn / Contrives a single beam of light / Along which love may move. This universal bond, transcending even religious and cultural distinctions, is our theme; the warm and nurturing heart at the center of all these centuries of music for Mary and her Child.