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The AMS Midwest Chapter invites you to a special Watch Party and Concert to be held in conjunction with the online annual meeting of the AMS. On Sunday, November 15, we’ll gather at the Ohio State University in Columbus. The event will start with group viewing of livestreamed sessions of the annual meeting. It will culminate in a concert by the chamber choir Fior Angelico: “Arise, My Love: Renaissance Polyphony Inspired by the Song of Songs.”
Schedule (Sunday, November 15, 2026):
10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m., choice of 3 AMS sessions
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., coffee and pastry break
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m., choice of 3 AMS sessions
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m., box lunches
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m., Fior Angelico concert
Location:
Timashev Family Music Building, 1900 College Road North, Columbus OH 43210.
The most convenient visitor parking is in the Arps parking garage at the corner of College Rd. N. and W. 18th Ave. (just off N. High St.). Maximum daily charge for Sunday parking is $12.
For those staying overnight, see below for suggested hotels.
Registration:
The concert is free and open to the public. The charge for the box lunch of your choice is $16. Deadline for ordering a box lunch is Monday, November 2. The registration form may be found here.
If you are planning to attend the AMS sessions, please register for the Annual Meeting.
Concert:
Fior Angelico, an early music chorus based in Columbus, Ohio, celebrating its 20th year, will present a concert of sacred Renaissance polyphony inspired by the Old Testament book The Song of Solomon, also known as the Song of Songs. With its collection of sensuous, even erotic, poetry on human love and courtship, the Song of Songs is a biblical outlier, lacking any overt religious content. The text instead has traditionally been interpreted as symbolic allegory of the love between God and the faithful as husband and wife. The resulting tension between sacred and secular captured the artistic imagination of numerous composers in the late Renaissance, who experimented with various liturgical and non-liturgical settings of these evocative texts. This concert program will explore some of these varied approaches.
The first portion of the program will focus on direct settings of texts from the Song of Songs by composers Raffaella Aleotti, Francisco Guerrero, Orlande de Lassus, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The remainder of the program will explore works more loosely based on these texts, including movements from Lassus’s transcendent Missa Osculetur me, based on his own motet for double chorus. The program will conclude with two works for the Feast of the Assumption by Palestrina and Victoria, the texts of which are replete with imagery inspired by the Song of Songs, now transferred to the Virgin Mary as the Queen of Heaven.
Questions? Contact Dr. Katie Graber, graber.84@osu.edu, (614) 679-6192.
Many thanks to Early Music in Columbus, the School of Music and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University.
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Suggested Hotels:
(Ordered by distance from Timashev Family Music Building)
Expensive hotel on campus: Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, (614) 247-4000, 0.6 miles
Hostel (with shared bathrooms) that gets good reviews: Wayfaring Buckeye Hostel, 2407 Indiana Ave., (614) 754-0945, 1.2 miles
Comfort Suites Columbus Expo Center, 1690 Clara St. I-71, (614) 586-1001, 1.5 miles
Red Roof Plus, 441 Ackerman Rd., (614) 267-9941, 1.9 miles
Holiday Inn Express OSU Medical Center, 3045 Olentangy River Rd., (877) 859-5095, 2.3 miles
Relatively inexpensive hotel on a direct bus line: Sonesta Columbus Downtown, 33 E. Nationwide Blvd., (614) 461-4100, 2.4 miles. Take the northbound no. 2 bus on N. High St.; get off at W. 18th Ave. On Sunday morning, the northbound bus stops at Nationwide every half hour (e.g., 9:09, 9:39).
