Upcoming & recent programs

Wind in the Woods CD "Shakespeare's Garden" is  available - contact Margaret Erin at windinwood@sbcglobal.net (return to home page and click on "program notes" on side menu for the background story to the CD)

Wind in the Woods can now be heard on Youtube at

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ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
5520 Far Hills Avenue
Dayton Ohio 45429

http://www.stgeorgeohio.org/

Wind in the Woods
Sunday April 22, 2012
10.30 a.m. service
Prelude:   Branle de la Torche/La Saraband - Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Offertory:  Non Vos Relinquam - William Byrd (c1540-1623)
Communiuon: Non Nobis Domine - William Byrd
Music for the story of St. George and the Dragon:  The Kings Morisco - Anon
Postlude: Volte - Michael Praetorius

MADRIGAL DINNER
Wright State University, Colonel Glen Highway, Fairborn, Ohio.

DECEMBER 2012 - TBA
So, come one, come all, and enjoy traditional English fare, amidst the antics of jesters and manorfolk, dancing and revelry, the Puppet Master, and the wonderfully interwoven lines of madrigal songs. What began as a single performance has become an established tradition that spans four evenings and entertains over 1,300 guests. See the Student Union Apollo Room transformed into the Great Hall of Wright Manor where guests are treated to the voices of the Wright State Chamber Singers, dances choreographed by the Tudor Rose Performing Troupe and the music of:-
Wind in the Woods Early Music Ensemble.
Wes Hale!

  See web site at:
                               http://www.wright.edu/madrigal

Sunday, January TBA 2012  at 3:00 pm.
free - open to the public

CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
SHROYER ROAD, KETTERING OHIO

CANDLELIGHTE CONCERT

Featuring

Wind in the Woods Early Music Ensemble,
Baroque Trio, Choral Music, Organ Music, and more

WEAVER CHAPEL
WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY,
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2, 2012
7.15 PM

A Candlemas service
by Candlelight

Chant and Medieval/renaissance music

WEAVER CHAPEL SCHOLA CANTORUM

and

Free and open to the public
200 W Ward St Near intersection of W Ward St and N Wittenberg Ave
Springfield, OH 45504

Weaver Chapel - see a campus map at http://www4.wittenberg.edu/tour/map.html#1

"The Presentation of our Lord in the Temple" or "Candlemas" is one of the oldest festivals in the Epiphany season. In the Roman church it was known as "The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary," and in the Eastern church as "The Meeting of the Lord," a phrase which indicates the significance of  the meeting of Simeon and the baby Jesus, as recorded in this evening's gospel recorded, the second chapter of Luke. According to the Levitical custom Mary went to the temple with Jesus for the ceremony of "purification" required 40 days after childbirth. Following the period of isolation, she was to be readmitted to public worship. As she entered the temple, she was greeted by the aged Simeon and the prophetess Anna who had been promised that they would see the Messiah before death. Simeon's outburst of joy, the Nunc dimittis has found a place in our liturgy, both at the Communion Service and at Compline, or Evening Prayer.

When Christmas was observed on the day of our present festival of Epiphany, quite early in the development ot the Church year, the date of Presentation fell on February 14. However, its present date February 2, and it's relationship to Christmas, was set in the year 542 by the Emperor Justinian. In medieval Rome an added ceremony was the blessing and distribution of candles, from which the title Candlemas comes. We observe this tradition at out service through extensive use of candles.