Stabat Mater - Curious and Interesting Links

Surfing over the Web you can find links with all kind of subjects (poems, books, paintings) related to the Stabat Mater. Some are good, some are not, some seem to have nothing to do at all with the Stabat Mater poem or the music inspired by it. You can even find a rather disgusting one: a "prayer", dedicated to a black virgin, an English parody of the poem, with sadistic undertones, as can be seen from the accompanying picture of a roped up naked female. Not my taste, and, I  hope, not yours, too...

I give a short description, and, in some cases, my opinion of the site, but, of course, you can decide for your self.

• Andreas Prittwitz - Lookingback over the Baroque - Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
  Andreas Prittwitz is a musician from Spain. He just sent me this Youtube video. He told me: "Trying to describe my music I would say it is original compositions with original instruments mixed ( I don´tlike this word, prefer unify)with modern instruments ( Saxofone, Clarinet ) and improvisations".
  Non Stop New York reflects on: Stabat Mater
  Part of the "Easter in New York" site, about the Stabat Mater. It looks nice, but not so nice is the fact that they copied most of their texts from my Ultimate Stabat Mater site, without asking, or without any reference. I asked them about that, but "they had no idea how that could have happened".
  
• Stichting Stabat Mater
  The Dutch "Stichting Stabat Mater" (Stabat Mater Foundation) comes from private initiative early 1998. Its goal is the yearly performance of Stabat Mater compositions in the period preceding Easter. These performances should lead to a long-lasting tradition, a musical event that will be an important item on the cultural agenda. Therefore, the founders aim for a high standard of artistic quality, to make sure of an intense musical experience. Moreover, these performances are meant to contribute to the atmosphere of the Passion time. That is the reason that the musical programs will be executed in churches, especially those with excellent acoustical qualities.
• Via Crucis - Theo Hol
  The website van Theo Hol, a dutch sculptor and photographer. In 1994 he had an Stabat Mater-exposition in the Univerity of Tilburg.
• Project Dialogue Painting - Music
  My friend Daisy Mottier from Switzerland presents her pictural expression of the Stabat Mater, inspired by the contemporary interpretation of de Genevois composer Jean-Claude Schlaepfer. Here you can listen to the music and see the paintings!
• Stabat Mater for Online Listening
  Stabat Mater for Online Listening is an activity of the Music Programme of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, at the corner of rue University and rue Ste-Catherine.
• An interview about the Ultimate Stabat Mater Website.
  
   

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