Concert of Elizabethan Music Dec. 10 in Wilson Library
Sunday, Dec. 10
North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library
2-3 p.m.
Information: Glenn McDonald (Music Department) at 919-962-1039
Nov. 27 - The UNC Consort of Viols will perform a concert of Elizabethan music that might have been heard in an English manor house around the year 1600.
The free public concert will take place on Sunday, Dec. 10 from 2-3 p.m. in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of the Wilson Library on the UNC campus.
Members of the ensemble play period instruments such as the viola da gamba, a bowed instrument with frets and six strings that was popular in Renaissance Europe. They will be joined by several singers doing both serious and light music that might have been performed by a family and their guests during the holiday season.
"This is music that Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh might have known," said Brent Wissick, professor of music at UNC and the concert organizer.
Concert-goers will be invited to view exhibitions in the North Carolina Collection Gallery, especially the Sir Walter Raleigh Room, which is lined with Elizabethan paneling and decorated with furnishings from the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
For information about the concert, contact Glenn McDonald at 919-962-1039. For information about the North Carolina Collection Gallery, visit the gallery's web page or call 919-962-1172.
