EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
Community & Climate Change & Early Music
The vulnerability of our natural ecosystems makes us more aware of the fragile state of our artistic ecosystems—and how profoundly interconnected these issues are.
TOIL & TROUBLE: A Degree in Early Music? Really?
Do students need a degree in historical performance to enter the field of early music? Most instrumentalists are positive about the need for a specialized degree. Singers? Not so much. But for anyone considering a degree in early music, ask yourself, “What does the program offer?”
Period Instruments? Yes. Period Costumes? Uh…
Are clothes of the period part of a historically accurate performance? Opinions vary about what constitutes an acceptable period outfit, but advocates of historical attire in early music have one thing in common: They believe the costume helps enrich the music’s context.
Reflections on 400 Years of Sephardic Choral Music
From the 17th century onward, choral music became the defining feature of the musical identity of Western Sephardic Jews.
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
Premiere Recording of Unpublished Motets by Giulio San Pietro del Negro
This strong new recording is a collection of unpublished motets by Giulio San Pietro del Negro who, like his contemporary Monteverdi, let the words guide the music.
An Anonymous Lover in Chicago
The music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges is gaining a foothold in the repertoire, and his only surviving opera has finally been recorded. Haymarket Opera's splendid 'The Anonymous Lover,' from 1780, features a winning cast and strong orchestra. Unmissable.
It’s All Just ‘Whyte Noyse’
Viol players today might know the music of English Tudor composer William Whyte, even as his biography remains a mystery. In this vivid new recording, New York's Abendmusik has finally committed Whyte's complete consorts to disc and make a compelling case for his music.
Telling the Origin Stories: Opera in the 17th century
An impressive and valuable new book, 'The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera,' traces the origins and development of opera, from the 16th through cusp of the 18th centuries. More than a dozen scholars contribute essays, covering Florence and Paris as expected, but also with insightful histories on English, German, and the Spanish territories (including in the Western Hemisphere).
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EARLY MUSIC NEWS FROM OTHER SOURCES
Sarah Radcliffe-Marrs brings to Blue Heron fifteen years of experience in concert, festival, and event planning and execution, as an employee of prominent arts organizations in Boston and England.
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blueheron.org
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January 4, 2023
Cleveland-based early music ensemble Les Délices is thrilled to welcome Laura Potter as its new Executive Director, effective January 1st, 2023.
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Les Délices
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January 4, 2023
"Archaeologists spend a lot of time examining the remains of distant pasts, which includes the study of rock paintings. This is largely visual work – but sometimes we can “hear” the ancient past using acoustic methods."
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The Conversation
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June 22, 2022
The seashell’s music probably hadn’t been heard by humans for more than 17,000 years.
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Classic FM
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July 18, 2022
In Germany, a minstrel was expected “to acquit himself well as a swordsman.” Surviving illustrations tend to emphasize the bulky, formidable aspect of these street performers. But why?
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The Honest Broker
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July 2, 2022
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Recording is available on multiple audio streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music BOSTON, MA—Boston Baroque is ecstatic to release a live concert recording of the Violin Concerto ...
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(Vancouver, B.C.) – Early Music Vancouver (EMV) announced today the winners of its competition for emerging (age 30 and under) early music artists. Applicants were asked to create a short ...
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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 ...
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"Stunning in its breadth and beauty," (Broad Street Review) Piffaro's season finale is drawn from the rich sacred and secular repertoire found in manuscripts of 16th and 17th-century Peru, Chile, ...
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The latest installment of “Stories”, Lumedia Musicworks’ comedic documentary series, explores the lives and works of underrepresented first women composers. The episode premieres online May 26, 2023. The daughter of ...
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