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Janet Cardiff - Forty Part Motet
Janet Cardiff’s internationally acclaimed sound installation Forty Part Motet (2001) is at Richmond Chapel in Penzance, a former Wesleyan Chapel and Grade II listed building, usually closed to the public. Cardiff has reworked 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis’s choral masterpiece Spem in alium nunquam habui by recording 40 individual male voices from the Salisbury Cathedral Choir (bass, baritone, alto, tenor and child soprano) and playing each individual voice through its own speaker. The spea
Mon - Sat. Open from 10.00 am to 17.00 pm. Free Entry.
Richmond Chapel, Tolver Road, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 2AB
Wed 1 Aug to Mon 27 Aug 2018
Website:
www.newlynartgallery.co.uk
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