  {"id":701042,"date":"2026-05-08T11:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=701042"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:42:28","slug":"venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ musicologist helps bring medieval mystic to life at Venice Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Professor Honey Meconi\u2019s scholarship on Saint Hildegard of Bingen advised the Vatican\u2019s exhibit featuring FKA Twigs, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, and others.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When the international art extravaganza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/art\/2026\">Venice Biennale<\/a> opens on May 9, visitors to the pavilion sponsored by the Vatican will find a fusion of past and present in the music of the 12th-century German Saint Hildegard of Bingen being interpreted by some of today\u2019s most innovative artists.<\/p>\n<p>Helping bring the exhibit to life is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/mur\/people\/meconi_honey\/index.html\">Honey Meconi<\/a>, a professor of musicology at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\">Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a>, whose extensive research into Hildegard has shaped how the world understands and performs her music.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_701102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701102\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-701102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-Wilhelm_Fassbinder_Saint_Hildegard_of_Bingen_Vatican_Venice_Biennale-427x630.jpg\" alt=\"St. Hildegard of Bingen contemplates a flower while writing with a quill.\" width=\"350\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-Wilhelm_Fassbinder_Saint_Hildegard_of_Bingen_Vatican_Venice_Biennale-427x630.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-Wilhelm_Fassbinder_Saint_Hildegard_of_Bingen_Vatican_Venice_Biennale-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-Wilhelm_Fassbinder_Saint_Hildegard_of_Bingen_Vatican_Venice_Biennale.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-701102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Hildegard of Bingen contemplates a flower while writing with a quill. Attributed to Wilhelm Fassbinder, 1898. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:St._Hildegard_von_Bingen_%28attr._Wilhelm_Fassbinder,_1898%29.webp\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meconi was among the consultants to the creative team behind the Holy See\u2019s pavilion, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/art\/2026\/holy-see\">\u201cThe Ear Is the Eye of the Soul,\u201d<\/a> which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/08\/arts\/venice-biennale-popular-pavilions.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> highlighted<\/a> as one of \u201ceight pavilions that have the Venice Biennale buzzing.\u201d The life and work of Hildegard inspired the exhibition and, according to the Holy See, centers on themes of \u201cslowing down, listening, contemplating, and caring\u201d and features performances by 24 artists, including stars like FKA Twigs, Brian Eno, Dev Hynes, and Patti Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve always loved about Hildegard is how inspiring her music is to artists of all kinds,\u201d says Meconi, whose book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=p083679\"><em>Hildegard of Bingen<\/em><\/a> (University of Illinois Press, 2018) remains the first and only English-language text devoted to Hildegard\u2019s work as a composer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer music consists of a single melodic line that modern musicians use as a tabula rasa, bringing their own ideas and interpretations to it while still engaging with something authentically medieval,\u201d Meconi says.<\/p>\n<p>The Venice Biennale was founded in 1895 and is held every two years. Often described as the \u201cOlympics of the art world\u201d for its pavilions hosted by countries, the festival brings together artists, architects, and musicians and is a major stage for new ideas and cultural exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Vatican\u2019s pavilion is located in The Mystical Garden in Venice, where visitors can listen to commissioned re-compositions of Hildegard\u2019s music through headphones as they wander the secluded garden\u2019s plots of vegetables and flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The pieces were curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers in collaboration with Soundwalk Collective, an experimental sound art organization based in Berlin and New York City.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ scholarship shapes a global stage<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Meconi\u2019s involvement began last fall when Soundwalk Collective contacted her seeking guidance on Hildegard\u2019s music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knew they wanted modern performers to interpret her work, so I provided editions and translations and answered questions about pronunciation, tuning, and so on,\u201d Meconi says. \u201cI was also able to suggest pieces that might be appropriate for specific artists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of her role, she was recorded singing Hildegard\u2019s music at Electric Lady Studios, the legendary space founded by Jimi Hendrix in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was surreal,\u201d Meconi says. \u201cBut it is also surreal for someone who specializes in music before 1600 to see Brian Eno\u2019s name in an email subject heading and to do a translation specifically for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another highlight for Meconi, as she tells it, was learning that Pope Leo XIV had translated one of Hildegard&#8217;s song texts into Portuguese for the famous fado singer Carminho. The song was one for which Meconi had provided the edition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnically speaking,\u201d she says, \u201cthe pope and I are now collaborators.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who is Hildegard, and why is her work so hot right now?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cShe was the Boss Lady of the 12th century.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine nun and polymath of epic proportions. In addition to founding a convent, writing theological treatises on her heavenly visions, inventing a new language and alphabet, corresponding with everyone who was anyone in the 12th century, and authoring books on the natural world and healing, she was a prolific musician. She penned 77 songs and a musical drama before her death at 81 in 1179.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was the Boss Lady of the 12th century,\u201d Meconi says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_701172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701172\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-701172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-1680x1120.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-1250x833.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inline-honey-Meconi-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Rehearsal-660x440.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-701172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Meconi (right) conducts members of the Christ Church Schola Cantorum at the \u201cO virga ac diadema: Hildegard and the Living Light\u201d concert at Christ Church in Rochester, New York, in April 2026. (l to r) Jessie Miller, graduate student in musicology at Eastman School of Music; Amy Steinberg &#8217;86, &#8217;90 (PhD); and Hanna Richardson Miller. (Photo courtesy of Meconi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Holy See says its pavilion responds to the broad theme of the Biennale, titled \u201cIn Minor Keys.\u201d The festival\u2019s curator, Koyo Kough, died last year, but wrote of the exhibition in her original curatorial statement: \u201cIn refusing the spectacle of horror, the time has come to listen to the minor keys, to tune in sotto voce to the whispers, to the lower frequencies; to find the oases, the islands, where the dignity of all living beings is safeguarded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biennale runs from May 9 to November 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honey Meconi\u2019s scholarship on Hildegard of Bingen advised the Vatican\u2019s exhibit featuring FKA Twigs, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":701092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[456,13092],"tags":[42842,3286,42832,16072],"class_list":["post-701042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","category-the-arts","tag-department-of-music","tag-eastman-school-of-music","tag-honey-meconi","tag-school-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ musicologist helps bring medieval mystic to life at Venice Biennale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Honey Meconi\u2019s scholarship on Hildegard of Bingen advised the Vatican\u2019s Venice Biennale exhibit featuring FKA Twigs, Brian Eno, and others.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ musicologist helps bring medieval mystic to life at Venice Biennale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Honey Meconi\u2019s scholarship on Hildegard of Bingen advised the Vatican\u2019s Venice Biennale exhibit featuring FKA Twigs, Brian Eno, and others.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-08T15:14:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-08T22:42:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fea-Hildegard_of_Bingen_vatican_venice-biennale-1200x630.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David Andreatta\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David Andreatta\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"David Andreatta\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f7956fe3f44fc17441f65461de225d47\"},\"headline\":\"Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ musicologist helps bring medieval mystic to life at Venice Biennale\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-08T15:14:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-08T22:42:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":846,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/venice-biennale-hildegard-of-bingen-holy-see-pavilion-701042\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/fea-Hildegard_of_Bingen_vatican_venice-biennale.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Department of Music\",\"Eastman School of Music\",\"Honey Meconi\",\"School of Arts and Sciences\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Society &amp; 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