Lecture by Gianni Cicali, Dept. of Italian, Georgetown University – Musical Intermission by Tina Chancey and Priscilla Smith
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2012
From the age of emperor Constantine the Great to the Renaissance, the Italian Jews were represented in legends, paintings, and theater based on the Legend of the Discovery of the True Cross. This work provided the subject for some of the Italian masterpieces of art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. The same Legend also generated an epic based on anti-Semitic elements. Some years following Piero della Francesca’s frescos on the Legend in Arezzo, one of the most important theatrical experimentations of the time took place in Mantua: a Jewish theater company performed for the court, and a Jewish actor and intellectual produced one of the first and most important treaties of Renaissance theater. Meanwhile in Florence, religious theater depicted the Jews according to different political situations.
Tina Chancey (viola da gamba, Renaissance violin, early harp, rebec) and Priscilla Smith (Renaissance bagpipe, recorders, early flute) will perform Italian Renaissance music composed by masters such as Francesco de Layolle, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Franciscus Bossinensus, Antonio Gardano, Marchetto Cara, Vincenzo Capirola, Joan Ambrosio Dalza and Vincenzo Ruffo. Of particular interest will be the piece ‘Falla con misuras’ written by the Jewish dancing master Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro (ca. 1420-ca.1481).
TINA CHANCEY is a founding member and Director of HESPERUS. She plays medieval fiddles, viol, pardessus de viole and renaissance violin on roots music from Sephardic and Blues to Irish, Old Time and early music. A member of Toss the Feathers and Trio Sefardi, she has performed with the Folger Consort, the Ensemble for Early Music, Blackmore’s Night, and QUOG. Dr. Chancey has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Early Music America.
PRISCILLA SMITH has performed with The Waverly Consort, Early Music New York, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Trinity (Wall St.) Baroque Orchestra, The Handel & Haydn Society, Ex Umbris, Concert Royal, the Clarion Society, Juilliard Baroque, and Orchester Wiener Akademie. A renaissance wind specialist, she is a core member of Piffaro, with whom she has toured the United States, Europe and South America.
GIANNI CICALI is Assistant Professor at the Department of Italian at Georgetown University. He is a specialist in Italian Theater from the 15th to the 20th centuries with an emphasis on opera and librettists; actors, politics and drama; the relations between the performing and the fine arts; the Commedia dell’Arte; and religious theater. His book Attori e Ruoli nell’Opera Buffa Italiana del Settecento (Lettere, Firenze, 2005) is a critically acclaimed account of Italian “Opera buffa” based on textual and archival research.
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