Rosa Mundi -- Women in Music

           ~Friday,  February 15, 2008 ~ PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne University                     ~ 8:00 pm
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             ~Saturday, February 16,  2008 ~ St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Highland Park       ~ 8:00 pm

         ~Sunday, February 17, 2008 ~ St Paul's Episcopal Church, Mt. Lebanon                     ~ 3:00 pm
          http://www.stpaulspgh.org/

         featuring "La Demoiselle Elue" by Claude Debussy
              with Kristen Watson, soprano
              Mark Carver, piano

            Rosa Mundi -- Rose of the World, is a traditional title for the Virgin Mary. It is also the name of a Gallica rose of great antiquity that many believe was named after Rosamund Clifford (Fair Rosamund), a mistress of Henry II. 
           This rose, with its white and red stripes, represents the pure, unapproachable mistress of courtly love and the all-too-approachable worldly mistress -- a metaphor for the double lens through which women have been viewed. (After all, it is mostly men who get to tell the stories.......)
          Join the 24 voice professional chamber choir as they sing stories of love and adulation, some pure, and some maybe a little impure.