The EMA Member Concerts & Events Calendar is for live, time-sensitive events, such as in-person concerts, livestreaming performances/premieres, and live online events such as webinars.You are also welcome to submit Early Music News & Press Releases about these or other activities.
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May 2021
Deceptively Simple
The earliest written keyboard pieces were improvisations on simple musical material: popular tunes, plainchant, or even just abstract musical intervals. The scale is possibly the simplest building block of all, and composers delighted in spinning elaborate musical structures out of scales. Jeffrey Grossman performs a selection of these works, which all begin unpretentiously but build to dazzling, finger-twisting heights. Concerts in TENET's 2021 Spring Series will stream from the release date through the summer.
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Mezzo Elisa Sutherland and tenor James Reese perform duets and solos from the 17th Century that range from intimate portrayals of heartbreak to infectious joy in Canto di bella bocca. With music by Luzzaschi, Strozzi, D'India and Monteverdi, this concert showcases the enormous variety of vocal writing from the early Baroque. Concerts in TENET's 2021 Spring Series will be streaming online through the summer.
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