Alkemie to present two performances on April 13 and April 14 at the Brooklyn Public Library and All Saint’s Episcopal Church NEW YORK, NY–On April 12, 2024, Bright Shiny Things releases Love to My Liking [BSTC-O201], early music ensemble Alkemie’s collection of 13th-century trouvère songs, dances, and motets, 8 of the 13 tracks are world […]
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A restless collective of medieval experimentalists, the Flatbush-based band Alkemie recently gained recognition beyond Brooklyn with their soundtrack for the video game Pentiment (directed by Obsidian studios and published by Xbox). Locally and nationally, they have been presented by the Amherst Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Cambridge Society for Early
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This new program presents Alkemie’s creative arrangements of favorite works by Guillaume Dufay – considered the foremost European composer by his 15th-century contemporaries – alongside the compositions of modern medieval luminary Shira Kammen. Though written centuries ago, many of the texts on this program have a strong sense of place recognizable to us today –
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Alkemie presents “Call Me Marie: Fables from Marie de France” Alkemie continues its 2022-2023 season with a new program based on the fables told by a 12th-century woman who pen-named herself “Marie de France.” Created and performed in collaboration with the Grammy-nominated duo Chapter House, this English-language version of her tales is sure to delight
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