Reactions from 2023 EMA Summit in Boston: ‘Electric!’
A thank you from EMA executive director, David McCormick.
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A Palestrina First from Suspicious Cheese Lords
On their latest stellar recording, the Suspicious Cheese Lords focus on Palestrina’s ‘Missa Illumina oculos meos,’ and the lengthy motet by Andreas de Silva on which it’s based. World premiere recordings, beautifully sung.
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In the Hands of AGAVE
Chamber ensemble AGAVE’s latest album, with the versatile voice of soprano Michele Kennedy, crisscrosses the Atlantic and spans several centuries. The focus is on women composers from the 17th through 20th centuries. Carefully planned, beautifully paced, this album forges connections deeper than the composers’ shared womanhood.
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Jacob Obrecht and his Misbehaving Church Singers
Using church records, Robert Nosow’s fascinating, richly detailed book portrays Jacob Obrecht at St. Donatian in Bruges, and the church singers he composed for. The choristers were deeply embedded in the city’s civic life, and records show some were disciplined for mockery or being ‘extremely lazy, disobedient, and wholly incapable.’
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Women at the Heart of TENET’s 15th Season
New York City’s TENET Vocal Artists is devoting its 15th season to music by, for, and about women. It’s not to suggest that men are not important, says TENET founder Jolle Greenleaf. Instead, ‘it’s to ask what changes in the sound, in the dynamics, and how do we interact with each other.’
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