MEETING AND CONCERT TO HONOR ITALIAN MUSICIAN LUCA MARENZIO

VATICAN CITY, MAY 26, 1999 (VIS) - The Santa Cecilia National Academy, the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music have organized a meeting and a concert on May 29 to honor Italian musician Luca Marenzio on the occasion of the fourth centenary of his death.

The liturgical and devotional music of Marenzio will be highlighted in the afternoon meeting, according to a communique published today by the Santa Cecilia Academy. A concert of rare spiritual madrigals will be performed that evening in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, where the composer is buried. Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the pontifical council, will unveil a commemorative plaque.

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