Music for Holy Week
Paola
¤ The Antoine de Paule Band Club, with the participation of the Christ the King Band, is holding a Holy Week academy with a musical programme including works by Paolo Miruzzi, Abel J. Mizzi, Salvo Miraglia, David Caruana, Pietro Pernice and Ricardo Zandonai.
Also on the programme are excerpts from the Requiem by Andrew Lloyd Weber and that by Mozart, and Caccini's Ave Maria sung by soprano Marvic Monreal. Charles Abela Mizzi will compere the evening and read poems related to Holy Week by Oliver Friggieri and Lino Farrugia Bonnici.
The academy is taking place at the main hall of the band club at 120, De Paule Square, on Tuesday at 7.30 p.m.
Sliema
¤ The parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is organising a harp concert by Esmeralda Galea Camilleri at the Sliema Band Club, 34, St Trophimus Street, on Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. The harpist will be accompanied by Nadine Galea and Mario Ciantar (violin), Antoine Frendo (viola) and Robert Calleja (flute).
Valletta
¤ Passiontide is the Easter festival of performing and visual arts. Many of the activities are being held at St Catherine's church, Valletta. It is being generously supported by the Malta Stock Exchange, St James's Cavalier Centre for Creativity, the Central Bank of Malta and the Malta Tourism Authority.
Open since last Sunday and running until April 17 is Human and Divine, an exhibition of wax sculptures specially linked to Holy Week. The works on display are by the well-known restorer and artist from Gozo, Fr Charles Vella.
The musical part begins this morning at 11.30 with Lauda Jerusalem: Domenica Palmarum with a programme of medieval chant, Renaissance and 20th century polyphony. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., there is The Sacred and the Contemporary, a dance meditation at St James Cavalier inspired by Mozart's Grabmusik together with works by contemporary Maltese composers.
This will be repeated on Saturday. On Tuesday at 8 p.m., also at St James's cinema, there will be a screening of Dreyer's black and white silent era masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc. This will be to live music.
Tenebrae, From Darkness to Light, on Wednesday at 8 p.m. is a celebration of plainchant while on Thursday at 8 p.m. there will be a contemporary jazz meditation on The Seven Last Words at St James Cavalier theatre.
The same Seven Last Words, but Haydn's, and for string quartet, will be performed at St Catherine's on Good Friday at noon.
That same evening at 8, at St James Cavalier, there will be Polly March's artistic interpretation of the Gospel according to St Luke, namely the part relevant to Holy Week. This will be repeated on Easter Sunday at 8 p.m.
On Easter Sunday at 11.30 a.m. at St Catherine's there will be a joyous celebration, Laudate Dominum, with music by Mozart, Handel, Adams and Thompson.
¤ The La Valette Band is playing marches at the lower hall of the band club at 297, Republic Street, tomorrow at 7 p.m. The band is also giving a concert of sacred music at the Jesuits' Church on Wednesday at 7 p.m.