Posted on November 19, 2008 by piffaro
Good news for all of you online holiday shoppers: The Piffaro web store is once again open for business. We had some trouble getting our old “PayPal” buttons to work with the new site format, but with a little massaging and a lot of support from their help-desk, we are up and running again. Thanks to everyone who helped to push this along & get it going again!
Lower shipping costs: In addition to the buttons actually working, Piffaro fans buying multiple discs will see a lowered cost for shipping, thanks to some new options in the store.
And, of course, if you’re looking for some great holiday music, be sure to check out “Nowell’s Delight”, a compilation CD of some of Piffaro’s best Christmas season music from live concerts. The disc is a great mix of instrumental and vocal music and features the musicians of Piffaro and FOP (Friends of Piffaro!) from over the last 20 years of concerts in the Delaware Valley.
This is one of our best-selling discs at this time of year. It’s a nice change from all of the holiday music we hear in stores and on the radio from Halloween on!
And of course, it makes a great gift!
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Posted on October 29, 2008 by piffaro
November 3rd, 7pm at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church
Mass for The Solemnity of All Souls
St. Mark's Church, 1625 Locust St., Philadelphia
The choir of Saint Mark’s Church, Matthew Glandorf and Diane Meredith Belcher, Directors, will join with Piffaro to offer Tomas Luis da Victoria’s Missa Pro Defunctis for 6 voices as a celebration the Solemns Requiem Mass for the Dead as the composer intended. Other music offered will be the Proper Chants of the Mass for the Dead as well as instrumental music from Spain and Edwin Fissinger’s atmosperic setting of In Paradisum.
Background:
In 1603, the Empress Maria died, leaving Victoria an endowed chaplaincy in the convent. In 1605, Victoria mortgaged several of his incomes in order to publish his Officium defunctorum, written in her memory. In the Missa pro defunctis, the Gregorian chant for the Mass of the Dead functions as a cantus firmus throughout, mostly in the second soprano part.
This is a church service, to which all are most welcome!
St. Mark's Choir
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Posted on August 2, 2008 by piffaro
Posted on July 26, 2008 by piffaro
Posted on July 24, 2008 by piffaro
Save the date(s) for Piffaro’s upcoming concert series in the Delaware Valley.
Subscriptions are currently available only to our VIP’s. Single tickets and Subscription sales to the public will be available soon. Check back here for more information!
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Italy & France
A Florentine Patroness at the Parisian Court
October 24-26, 2008-Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill, Wilmington
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Nouvelle, Nouvelle
Christmas in Renaissance France
December 19-21, 2008-Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Wilmington
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Venice, Paris & Lyons
Centers of Music Publishing in the 16th c.
February 13-15, 2009-Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill, Wilmington
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Harmony of the Spheres
A Celebration of Celestial Inspiration
May 8-10, 2009-Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill, Wilmington
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Posted on June 11, 2008 by piffaro
Hello, Piffaro Fans!
Welcome to our new weblog. There is so much happening with Piffaro these days, we just had to find a better way to tell everyone about it. Stay tuned here for news about touring, recording projects, events, research, and of course the 2008-2009 Delaware Valley Concert Series.
If you are not already on our e-mail contact list, check here for the link to sign up. We promise not to spam you! (And we refuse to sell our e-mail list to others.)
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