Tactus SF will present two concerts of music for the Day of the Dead, featuring music by Renaissance composers working in Spain and the Spanish New World.
The concerts will be conducted by new Tactus SF Music Director Sven Edward Olbash in his premiere appearance with the ensemble. The 24-voice a cappella ensemble will present musical settings of texts that comprise the traditional Roman Catholic Office for the Dead, a centuries-old liturgy underlying the Hispanic commemoration of El Día de los Muertos. The music contemplates death and the afterlife in a series of powerful settings of texts from the Book of Job, the Psalms, and the Hebrew prophets. The settings, in both chant and polyphony, are by some of the greatest composers working in the major cathedrals of Hispanic Europe and the New World, including Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Fernando Franco, and Juan Vásquez.
Wine reception to follow.