Newberry Consort

Sparkling music for voices, strings, and brass centered around the famous Italian Jewish singer Madama Europa Rossi. The Gonzaga Court in Mantua was home to many of the most renowned and diverse musicians in early modern Europe. There, the Rossi family formed a concerto of Jewish musicians who composed and performed for courtly occasions. Among …

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Sparkling music for voices, strings, and brass centered around the famous Italian Jewish singer Madama Europa Rossi. The Gonzaga Court in Mantua was home to many of the most renowned and diverse musicians in early modern Europe. There, the Rossi family formed a concerto of Jewish musicians who composed and performed for courtly occasions. Among …

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Sparkling music for voices, strings, and brass centered around the famous Italian Jewish singer Madama Europa Rossi. The Gonzaga Court in Mantua was home to many of the most renowned and diverse musicians in early modern Europe. There, the Rossi family formed a concerto of Jewish musicians who composed and performed for courtly occasions. Among …

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Joyous holiday music from the convents and city streets of New Spain. Imagine yourself in 17th-century Mexico City: it’s Christmas, and the glorious sound of the singing nuns of the Convent of the Encarnación soars over the walls of the cloister and fills the square.  On the other side of the plaza, a street band …

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Joyous holiday music from the convents and city streets of New Spain. Imagine yourself in 17th-century Mexico City: it’s Christmas, and the glorious sound of the singing nuns of the Convent of the Encarnación soars over the walls of the cloister and fills the square.  On the other side of the plaza, a street band …

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Joyous holiday music from the convents and city streets of New Spain. Imagine yourself in 17th-century Mexico City: it’s Christmas, and the glorious sound of the singing nuns of the Convent of the Encarnación soars over the walls of the cloister and fills the square.  On the other side of the plaza, a street band …

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Enter the mysterious otherworld of prophecy and dreams… The Newberry Consort introduces the mysterious world of sybils, prophets, and oracles, centering on the haunting Sibylline Prophecies of Orlande de Lassus. Voices join with lute, recorders, reeds, and sackbut to perform works of the high Renaissance that warn, whisper, and herald the future. Paired with projections …

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Enter the mysterious otherworld of prophecy and dreams… The Newberry Consort introduces the mysterious world of sybils, prophets, and oracles, centering on the haunting Sibylline Prophecies of Orlande de Lassus. Voices join with lute, recorders, reeds, and sackbut to perform works of the high Renaissance that warn, whisper, and herald the future. Paired with projections by musicologist and …

The Newberry Consort Presents: Oracles, Prophets, and Dreams Read More »

Enter the mysterious otherworld of prophecy and dreams… The Newberry Consort introduces the mysterious world of sybils, prophets, and oracles, centering on the haunting Sibylline Prophecies of Orlande de Lassus. Voices join with lute, recorders, reeds, and sackbut to perform works of the high Renaissance that warn, whisper, and herald the future. Paired with projections by musicologist and …

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Large-scale vocal and instrumental works by Michael Prætorius, in collaboration with Bella Voce… Michael Praetorius’s Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica contains some of the most elaborate vocal and instrumental writing in all of early German music, representing a level of sophistication on par with Monteverdi’s Vespers. Published at the beginning of the devastating Thirty Years’ War, many years would …

The Newberry Consort Presents: Singen und Sagen: Music for Hope in a Time of War Read More »