What Remains: Tenebrae and Lament in the French Baroque

What remains when time and history have taken their toll?

This Lenten program centers on the three surviving Troisième Leçons de Ténèbres by Michel-Richard DeLalande (1657-1726), each drawn from a different day of the Tenebrae office and all that remain of a once-complete cycle of nine Leçons. Their incompleteness becomes part of the meditation, bearing witness to both loss and endurance.

Interwoven with these works are French Baroque tombeaux and laments, musical memorials shaped by grief and remembrance. The program concludes with Charpentier’s Stabat Mater, a setting that stands at the foot of the cross, holding sorrow without resolution.

Presented in the spirit of Lent, this concert invites listeners into a posture of stillness and attentive presence, where grief is neither explained nor overcome, but gently held, and where listening itself becomes an act of compassion.

Ars Sonora Atlanta
Zorica Pavlović, soprano
Charles Iner, theorbo
Brian Bishop, organ
With special guest Mia Mangano, viola da gamba

$20 suggested donation, though no one will be turned away due to funds.

Portion of proceeds to benefit St. Bede’s music program.

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