EMS "York Early Music Festival - Apotropaïk" 13/10/2024

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  • AuntDaisy
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    • Jun 2018
    • 1535

    EMS "York Early Music Festival - Apotropaïk" 13/10/2024

    This EMS looks good...

    York Early Music Festival - Apotropaïk - The Early Music Show

    Hannah French introduces a concert given by the French medieval specialists Apotropaïk at the York Early Music Festival in July, in which they explore many different portrayals of women in songs of the late Middle Ages.





    I think it's their "Bella donna" concert (& not "Charles VII, music-lover" - Ockeghem, Binchois, Dufay & Busnois)

    York Early Music Festival 2024: Event 20
    APOTROPAIK

    Thursday 11 July 9.45pm – 10.45pm
    Venue: Merchant Adventurers Hall

    Bella donna

    For their second concert Apotropaïk focus on ‘La bella donna’, the idealised woman praised in the courtly love tradition, but also the sublime, poisonous flower well known to witches for the preparation of their potions. Starting from a canso de trobairitz (female alter ego of the troubadour) and progressing through monodic and polyphonic songs of the 13th and 14th centuries, the programme reveals a mosaic of fascinating female figures​
  • french frank
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    • Feb 2007
    • 30006

    #2
    Thank you for posting the additional material - not a lot on the R3 page at the moment. This is the group's website for more info on them:

    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • AuntDaisy
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      • Jun 2018
      • 1535

      #3
      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      Thank you for posting the additional material - not a lot on the R3 page at the moment. This is the group's website for more info on them:
      https://www.apotropaik.eu/en/home/
      Thanks, French Frank.
      I now know where their unusual name comes from (no surprise to you, I suspect).

      Last year's EMS The harp, the philtre and the sword was excellent.

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      • french frank
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        • Feb 2007
        • 30006

        #4
        Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
        I now know where their unusual name comes from (no surprise to you, I suspect).
        I looked them up precisely to discover what it meant! Not in everday use even in the Middle Ages
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • vinteuil
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          • Nov 2010
          • 12704

          #5


          I see from the OED that Lytton Strachey used the word in Eminent Victorians -

          "The same doctrine led him [scil. General Gordon] ... to append, in brackets,the apotropaic initials D.V. after every statement in his letters implying futurity"



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          Last edited by vinteuil; 02-10-24, 10:16.

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