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Tim
11/15/2009 7:00 PM at St. Alban’s Church
1501 Washington, Albany, California 94706
Cost: $15 general
The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula;
Cançonièr presents 15th-century music, from the time of the infamous Vlad the Impaler, whose tyrannical rule of Wallachia (modern-day southern Romania) shocked Europe. Featuring Michael Beheim’s German poem about Vlad, music of the Byzantine court, Italian and German dances, Balkan folk songs, Turkish classical music, the Lamentation for Constantinople by Guillaume Dufay, and other works.
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