From Scratch: Atlanta’s Early Music Scene
After 25 years of building and re-building, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra has found stability and high artistic success.
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Blue Heron Releases Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 2
The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron announces the release of Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 2, the second recording resulting from the ensemble’s multi-season project to commemorate the circa-600th birthday of the great Franco-Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem. Blue Heron launches an exclusive pre-release on Friday, April 12, the same day as the start of the
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The Peculiar Programming of Early Music
For most of us, the early-music repertoire is so great it needs no special pleading — even as attendance numbers might suggest otherwise. So what works in early-music programming? Who’s been successful at audience engagement, and how do presenters select their historical performance projects?
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Alkemie Ensemble Releases New Album of 13th century Trouvère Songs
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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BEMF presents Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI & Stile Antico in April
BEMF concludes its 2023/24 Season with two brilliant returning ensembles in April: Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI on April 5 and Stile Antico on April 19 ARTIST: Hespèrion XXIJordi Savall, DirectorXavier Díaz-Latorre, theorbo & guitar; Andrew Lawrence-King, arpa doppia; Philippe Pierlot, treble and bass viols; Xavier Puertas, violone; David Mayoral, percussion; Jordi Savall, Director & treble and bass viols WHEN: Friday, April
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Discover the Amazing Story of the Tenshō Embassy!
In 1582, four Japanese teenage ambassadors set sail from Nagasaki to Lisbon on what would be an 8-year adventure. Discover their amazing story and celebrate their musical accomplishments in Japan and abroad at a performance of Lyracle’s new program, Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy. Learn more at lyraclemusic.com/events Performers: Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano James Perretta, viol Danielle Boivin, actor
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The Practitioners of Musick:“18th Century Dutch Music in America”
Enjoy a live performance of music enjoyed and played in Colonial America! The Practitioners of Musick will offer a program at the historic Abraham Staats House (c.1740) that reflects late 17th and 18th century Dutch and English popular music heard in New Netherlands and its capital, New Amsterdam. A march composed in honor of American
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From the Golden Age of Musical Arrangements
Arrangements of popular music have long been shunned in certain circles. But the author of a concise new book suggests that by ignoring arrangements, we’ve missed considerable cultural, artistic, and historical insights into music from the era.
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Is Pay-What-You-Can the Future for Early Music?
Celebrating Early Music Month, we look into a new trend seen from coast to coast: a Pay-What-You-Can ticketing model. This scheme comes with high hopes for attendance and diversity but inconclusive results. This article first appeared in the January 2024 issue of EMAg.
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The Renaissance Chorus presents “Austro-Hungarian Court Composers”
Like her grandfather Maximilian I, who employed Isaac and Senfl, Mary Queen of Hungary brilliantly employed the Court composer Thomas Stoltzer to set Luther’s new 1524 Hebrew-German Psalm translations to pioneering 6/7vv. polyphony. Senfl arranged Josquin’s ‘Ave Maria’ to 6vv. These and other of their motets and lied are featured by RenChorNY led by Richard
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