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SUMMARY:Acord Medieval Performance Ensemble: Florilegium
DESCRIPTION:Sunday’s concert will certainly be entertaining. It is a proper Florilegium which is a kind of sonic scrap book of some brilliant ideas which couldn’t be fitted anywhere else. \n\n\n\nACORD 2025 Season at the Kathleen Syme Library Concert 5 \nFlorilegium \nMargaret Arnold : alto\nRichard Excell : vielles\, rebec\, gemshorn \nJerzy Kozlowski : bass\nSue Tweg : reader\, voice \nCarol Williams : harps\, voice \nSunday 9 November 2025\, 11:00 am\nKathleen Syme Library and Community Centre\, 251 Faraday St. Carlton Tickets at the door $20 / $10
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-florilegium/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250831T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250831T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
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SUMMARY:Acord Medieval performance Ensemble: Wise and Foolish
DESCRIPTION:Acord’s fourth concert in the 2025 season 31 August: Wise and Foolish \nThe starting point for this concert is the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins which appears in chapter 25 of the Gospel of Matthew. One 11th century response to this was Sponsus\, an extraordinary bilingual musical dramatisation of the parable\, one of the innovative creations of the great Abbey of St Martial in Limoges. This extensive work forms the first part of the concert while the remainder features a range of works responding either wisely or foolishly to certain life events. \nAs always the music is remarkable\, the readings are pithy\, the images are glorious and the refreshments to follow\, topical. Of course there will be cake. \nWe hope you can come. \nSunday August 31\, 11am – 12.00 \nTickets at the door.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-wise-and-foolish/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250601T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250601T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
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SUMMARY:Acord: Dragonslayers
DESCRIPTION:Dragonslayers is Acord’s second concert in the 2025 series at Kathleen Syme and it’s a cracker. The central protagonists are\, interestingly enough\, St George and St Margaret and the music associated with these two is really delightful and actually quite surprisingly lovely. See what you think. There are of course the wonderful readings and brilliant images you have come to expect as well as dragonish food – oh and of course there will be cakeTickets at the door $20 – $10
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-dragonslayers/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250406T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250406T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
CREATED:20250403T124012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T124012Z
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SUMMARY:Acord : Medieval Performance Ensemble - Nostre Dame
DESCRIPTION:ACORD 2025 Season at the Kathleen Syme Library\nConcert 1 \n\n\n\n\nNostre Dame\n\nWe have had the last rehearsal and it’s going to be an entertaining and thought provoking concert with all the usual trimmings of excellent stories\, glorious music and dazzling images. The proceeds from ticket sales will be going to Asylum Seekers and we will be hosting a Feast for Freedom as our post concert nibbles.\n\nHope to see you thereACORD 2025 Season at the Kathleen Syme Library\n\nMargaret Arnold : alto\, Richard Excell : vielles\, gemshorn\, rebec Jerzy Kozlowski : bass Sue Tweg : reader\, voice\nCarol Williams : harps\, voice\nSunday 6 April 2025\, 11:00 am \nKathleen Syme Library and Community Centre\, 251 Faraday St. Carlton\nTICKETS: $15 – $10
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-nostre-dame/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241215T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241215T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
CREATED:20241214T080335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241214T080510Z
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SUMMARY:Acord Medieval Performance Ensemble: Heaven and Hell
DESCRIPTION:We’ve got the last rehearsal for this concert today and it is all looking heavenly. This is a concert in two parts as you might expect\, starting in Hell and ending up in Heaven. There’ll be the usual wonderful music along with excellent images and masterly narration. There will also be some heavenly refreshments after. Hope to see you there. \n\n\n\n\nMargaret Arnold : alto\nRichard Excell : rebec\, vielle \nJerzy Kozlowski : bass\nSue Tweg : reader\, voice\nCarol Williams : harp\, rebec\, voice \nSunday December 15\,  2024\, 11:00 am\nKathleen Syme Library and Community Centre\, 251 Faraday St. Carlton \nTickets at the door : $20 / $10 \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-heaven-and-hell/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241027T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241027T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
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SUMMARY:Acord : Medieval Performance Ensemble - The Romance of the Pear
DESCRIPTION:We are about to have the last rehearsal for the fourth concert of our 2024 series at the Kathleen Syme Library\, and everything is looking and sounding good. This time the theme is the recreation of a thirteenth century romance which will be richly illustrated with musical refrains and lush images. We are still devising what we will have for food and drink\, but you can be certain that it will be delicious. \n\n\n\n\nMargaret Arnold : alto\nRichard Excell : rebec\, vielle\, gemshorn Jerzy Kozlowski : bass\nSue Tweg : reader\, voice\nCarol Williams : harp\, rebec\, voice \nSunday October 27\,  2024\, 11:00 am\nKathleen Syme Library and Community Centre\, 251 Faraday St. Carlton tickets at the door : $20 / $10 \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-romance-of-the-pear/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240818T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240818T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
CREATED:20240815T060448Z
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SUMMARY:Acord:  Concert 3 Epiphany in August
DESCRIPTION:Since many folk in the antipodes celebrate Christmas in Winter which for us is June -July\, if you were also going to celebrate Epiphany it would be in August\, wouldn’t it? Well that’s our excuse and there’s such a lot of great music around this holiday that we feel quite justified. It is a commemoration of the manifestation of Christ\, especially to the Magi\, but also at his baptism and at the wedding feast of Cana\, and is celebrated on January 6. What is inexplicable is the connection to the Nativity of Christ since surely that’s where the story of the Three Kings comes in? Apparently even before 354\, the Western Church had separated the celebration of the Nativity of Christ as the feast of Christmas and set its date as December 25; it reserved January 6 particularly for the Three Kings and their offering of gifts to the infant. \nAnyway\, the music is great and you know there’ll be some wonderful readings and heaps of images as well as appropriate refreshments after. \nMargaret Arnold : alto\nRichard Excell : rebec\, vielle\, gemshorn Jerzy Kozlowski : bass; Sue Tweg : reader\, voice; Carol Williams : harp\, rebec\, voice \nSunday 18 Sunday 18 August 2024\, 11:00 am \nKathleen Syme Library and Community Centre\, 251 Faraday St. Carlton  \nTickets at the door : $20 / $10
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-concert-3-epiphany-in-august/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240623T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240623T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
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SUMMARY:Acord - Medieval Performance Ensemble:  BLACK BOOKS OF HOURS and  “BURGUNDIAN BLACK”
DESCRIPTION:BLACK BOOKS OF HOURS & “BURGUNDIAN BLACK”\nIn the 1460s and 1470s there was a trend\, as short-lived as it was spectacular\, for producing Books of Hours on vellum which had been stained black. Short-lived\, both because the iron-gall solution used rendered the vellum fragile (a nightmare for modern conservators) and because only a few rare and costly materials could be used for text and images. And spectacular\, because they arose from the Court of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy\, a cultural centre of spectacle\, art\, literature\, music and fashion. Indeed it was at this court that black grew to become not just the colour of mourning\, but pre-eminent among all colours as the embodiment of power and high status.  \nAs usual some very fine examples of music from these black books will be performed with readings and wonderful illustrations.   There will be appropriate refreshments afterwards of course. There might even be cake. \nSunday\, June 23\, 11am – 12pm \nTickets at the door ($20 / $10)
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-black-books-of-hours-and-burgundian-black/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240421T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240421T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
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SUMMARY:Acord: Down the Garden Path
DESCRIPTION:Acord: Medieval Performance Ensemble \nWe open our 2024 series with a charming wander through all manner of gardens\, real\, symbolic\, allegorical and metaphorical. The concert includes projected images and a variety of readings as well as some exquisite music and goes on for about an hour after which we repair to the adjoining room for food and drink. \nWe hope we see you soon. \nSunday April 21\, 11am \nKathleen Syme Library (251 Faraday Street\, Carlton) \nTICKETS: $20 / $10\, only available at the door.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-down-the-garden-path/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231111T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231111T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
CREATED:20231107T090332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T090332Z
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SUMMARY:Acord: Big Foot Bertha and the Minstrel King
DESCRIPTION:Big-Foot Bertha & the Minstrel King\n\nPart of a series of Sunday morning concerts of medieval music\, readings and images\, this Sunday concert centres on Big Foot Bertha\, the mother of Charlemagne\, and it is still a mystery as to why she acquired this unusual sobriquet. Also in the story is the King of the Minstrels\, Adenet le Roi who wrote a fanciful story of B F Bertha.\nAdenet le Roi was no ordinary minstrel. His epic poems\, including Berte aus Grans Piés\, Les Enfances Ogier and Cleomadès\, abound in colourful details\, and he engaged with a web of trouvères\, minstrels and patrons in Flanders and from France and England.\n\n“When the words come\, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung\, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.” Hildegard von Bingen \n\nMargaret Arnold : alto\, organetto\nRichard Excell : vielles\, rebec\, psaltery\, gemshorn\nJerzy Kozlowski : bass\nSue Tweg : reader\, alto\nCarol Williams : harp\, vielle\, rebec\, voice\n\n\n\nKathleen Syme Library\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\n\n\nSundays November 11\, 11 am – 12 noon\nTickets: $20 & $10 (at door)\nEnquiries: +61 425 702 700
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-big-foot-bertha-and-the-minstrel-king/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230917T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230917T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T025851Z
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SUMMARY:Acord: Hrotsvit and Hildegard
DESCRIPTION:This concert weaves together creative works by two remarkable self-proclaimed ‘strong voices’. In the C10th Hrotsvit (c.935-c.1000) played on her own Saxon name\, describing herself as ‘Clamor Validus Gandesheimensis’. In the C12th\, Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) wrote that her mission was to proclaim sacred truths with her ‘trumpet voice’. Although they never met or knew of each other\, these women from aristocratic backgrounds had the good fortune to live in places and at a time when early Christianity had become established in Saxony and the Rhineland under the Benedictine rule\, supported by cultural enrichment through Greek and Latin texts flooding into scriptoria via Constantinople. Both women took advantage of the opportunities that presented themselves for scholarship and spiritual creativity in a cloistered life: Hrotsvit took limited vows and enjoyed relative comfort as a secular canoness\, while Hildegard was committed by her parents as a child\nto a full monastic life\, in which she achieved high status as a political and spiritual leader. \nAlthough that all sounds rather sober\, Hrotsvit had a quite spicy sense of humour as you will discover. \nSunday September 17\, 11am \nKathleen Syme Library and Community Centre\, 251 Faraday Street\, Carlton \nTICKETS: S20 (Concession $15)  at door. \n 
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-hrotsvit-and-hildegard/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230709T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230709T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
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SUMMARY:Acord: The Chastelain de Couci
DESCRIPTION:The Chastelain de Couci has been celebrated as a singer of songs of love and crusades ever since his own time. His true identity has been a source of confusion for much of that time\, too\, largely because of a fanciful romance concocted about him a century after his life by a certain Jakemes. While this tale is entertaining in a gruesome way (it featured in an Acord concert many years ago)\, the glimpses we have of his actual life are just as interesting and at times poignant. \nCome and celebrate the life and work of this amazing creative artist as presented by Acord with song\, stories and wonderful images. There’ll be refreshments after and lots of chat. \nTickets at the door: $20/$10
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-the-chastelain-de-couci/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230319T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230319T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
CREATED:20230318T223941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230318T224333Z
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SUMMARY:Acord 2023 season concert 1: The Fifteen Joys of Our Lady
DESCRIPTION:Books of Hours were personal prayer books\, but the words were the formal Latin of the Liturgy. Except in many cases for Les Quinze Joies de Nostre Dame\, addressed to Mary directly: fifteen events in her life\, fifteen pleas for her intercession\, and fifteen Ave Marias. Acord presents the fifteen joys of Mary in song\, narration and images.\n\nThe fifty minute concert will be followed by the usual refreshments and chat.\n\nKathleen Syme Library and Community Centre\n\nTickets at the door $20 / $10
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-2023-season-concert-1-the-fifteen-joys-of-our-lady/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Libary\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220918T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220918T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
CREATED:20220917T234603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220917T234603Z
UID:10007943-1663498800-1663502400@classicmelbourne.com.au
SUMMARY:Acord : Medieval Performance Ensemble - Peirol the troubadour d.800
DESCRIPTION:A troubadour of the Auvergne\, Peirol was “a poor knightwho became a jongleur”. His attractive melodies bear lyrics of love\, pain\, joy\, exile and crusading duty.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-peirol-the-troubadour-d-800/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Libary\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, 3134\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220605T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220605T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T042732
CREATED:20220601T002127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220601T002127Z
UID:10007806-1654426800-1654430400@classicmelbourne.com.au
SUMMARY:Acord - Medieval Performance Ensemble: The Holy Face
DESCRIPTION:In this concert we explore facets of the world of acheiropoieta: literally “not hand made”\, but more specifically miraculous images of Christ’s face not created by human hands. There have been many claimants to such status\, but in medieval western Europe\, just two attracted the major share of veneration\, pilgrimage\, imitation and prayer: the Veronica in Rome and the Volto Santo di Lucca. Tickets at the door $20 / $10 and there will be appropriate refreshments after.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/acord-medieval-performance-ensemble-the-holy-face/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library and Communiy Centre\, 251 Faraday St\, Carlton\, 3053\, Victoria\, 3134\, Australia
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