Fitting in with this year’s theme of Metamorphosis, this concert showed how Renaissance composers were all too willing to imitate their contemporaries or those of the recent past – often embellishing and developing the original. So in Transformers we were served up an intriguing mix of church and secular music from the late 15th to the late 16th century.
Taking place at St Martins church and finishing with a recent version of Tallis’s 40-part motet, Spem in alium arranged for 11 voices by Mick Swithinbank this looks at being a superb evening my musical discovery
The Brighton trans*formed project have launched their new website designed by Melanie Menard. The site features photographs and the full interview transcripts that formed the basis of the Brighton trans*formed book, published last October. Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, Brighton Trans*formed is a ground-breaking digital project that highlights transgender lives in Brighton – “powerful stories that need to be told, and shared.”
