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Celebrating the Microtonal with Cavalieri’s ‘Lamentations’

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Like Monteverdi, Emilio de’ Cavalieri took a ‘seconda pratica’ approach by breaking counterpoint rules to better convey the texts. He also experimented with new styles and techniques, such as dividing a whole-step into more than two pitches. Elam Rotem and his ensemble Profeti della Quinta specialize in this sort of treacherously difficult music to sing, and they deliver Cavalieri’s ‘Lamentations’ with exquisite precision. The effect is a little disorienting and thoroughly mesmerizing.

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BEMF presents soprano Amanda Forsythe with Opera Prima, and Le Consort

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BEMF presents soprano Amanda Forsythe with Opera Prima on February 3 and the quartet Le Consort on February 23, both in Cambridge, MA ARTIST: Opera PrimaAmanda Forsythe, sopranoCristiano Contadin, directorAndrea Inghisciano, cornetto; Mauro Spinazzè, violin; Marta Graziolino, triple harp; Gianluca Geremia, chitarrone; Cristiano Contadin, viola da gamba WHEN: Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 7:30pm ETThe Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New

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An Early-Music Climate Activist on Disrupting Performances

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Guest editorial: We are in the midst of a global mass extinction caused by a rapid change in climate. The scale of these problems means that the crisis cannot be addressed without action from the world’s most powerful governments — and they have utterly failed to respond. It’s an attitude of enjoying order (and short-term profits) more than pursuing justice. This comes despite years of scientists’ and citizens’ good-faith efforts to work within the system. To shake our friends’ complacency was our goal in disrupting the Met Opera… 

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2023 EMA Summit

Making Connections We look forward to gathering the early-music community as we host our first in-person Summit in Boston, MA, October 24-26, 2023. The theme of EMA’s first in-person Summit, Making Connections, celebrates the many ways our community comes together to share and grow, in all its cultural richness and variety. More than 20 thought-provoking

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American Classical Orchestra Performs a Holiday Program on Dec. 14

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Concert Features Rediscoveries of Antonio Bencini’s Lost Christmas Oratorio and Antonio Gianettini’s Magnificat, in Collaboration with the Academy of Sacred Drama Soloists are Soprano Linda Tsatsanis, Mezzo-Soprano Kate Maroney, and Tenor Alex Guerrero, with Members of the American Classical Orchestra Chorus Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO) in its second

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