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“why:eternity”: Ann Arbor Grail Singers
May 9 & 11 (different locations). Jacob Carroll directs this women’s early-music choir in a program featuring Italian late-Renaissance composer Maddalena Casulana’s book of madrigals published in 1570, among the first by a female composer. Also, works by American David Lang, Italian Renaissance composer Palestrina’s settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the 9th-century Gregorian Reproaches. Accompaniment by viola da gambist Lily Schrantz, theorbo player Brian Kay, and violists Marc Armitano, Jamie Gallupe, and David Webster Hunt III. 7:30 p.m., St. Joseph Catholic Parish, 3430 Dover, Dexter. Tickets $20 (seniors, $15; students, $10) at annarborgrailsingers.org or by cash or check at the door. annarborgrailsingers.org, (415) 662–0631.
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