The Forty Part Motet (2001), an audiovisual installation by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, consists in forty loudspeakers arranged in an oval; they play an audio loop of Spem in Alium, a well-known ...
Visitors basking in Cardiff’s soundscape in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Courtesy of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine The cyclically repeating piece officially begins with the ...
NEW YORK -- Somewhere around the middle of the 16th century, the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis wrote his famous "Spem in Alium," in which 40 singers' voices spin out variations on an initial sacred ...
Considered by many to be the masterpiece of Renaissance choral music, the Phoenix Chorale performs Thomas Tallis' SPEM IN ALIUM, April 29 - May 1. SPEM IN ALIUM is a completely ethereal choral ...