Richard Frost & Tapestry: All-Centuries Singers
Saturday, December 5
Start Time: 3:00 PM
The Bookstore will host a special event with Richard Frost and Tapesty: All-Centuries Singers. The choral group will perform on the Bookstore’s main staircase, followed by a book-signing of I Never Saw a Silver Swan: Poetic Introductions to Madrigals of the Renaissance, 1530-1630 by Richard Frost in the first-floor Fiction Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Tapestry is a Central New York choral ensemble dedicated to performing polyphonic music, usually a cappella but occasionally accompanied by recorders or other period instruments. The group specializes in music of the Renaissance that the singers introduce with original poetry written by Richard Frost, who is also a charter member of the ensemble. Tapestry, which is based in Clinton, has several members from the Hamilton area, including Tom Brackett, Richard Frost, Tom Klenck, Deborah Knuth Klenck, Jeanne Rashap, Jay Swain, and Adger Williams.
Richard Frost, Tapestry's esteemed bard and author of I Never Saw a Silver Swan sings bass in the group. As a student he performed musicals and barbershop at Swarthmore College, and oratorios in the city chorus of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Locally he has sung with the Hamilton College Oratorio Society and the Colgate University Chorus. Dick spends several months each year in Santa Fe, NM, where he has sung with the Santa Fe Symphony Chorus, the Santa Fe Men's Camarata and the Canticum Novum and is a regular member of the choir of Church of the Holy Faith.
I Never Saw A Silver Swan: Poetic Introductions to Madrigals of the Renaissance, 1530 - 1630 is a collection of madrigal introductions. The book includes introductions for 146 madrigals (including the entire Oxford Book of English Madrigals), and a score of additional generic introductions and "interludes". The composers are primarily English and Italian, with several French madrigalists. Among the leading composers are Thomas Morley, Orlando di Lasso, Thomas Weelkes, John Wilbye, Orlando Gibbons, Claudio Monteverdi, William Byrd, and Clement Janequin.
