…artment of Boston College Friday, October 14, 2016 at 7:30 pm St. Anne’s in-the-Fields, Lincoln, MA Presented by Live in Lincoln Center Series Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 8 pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 4 pm S. Stephen’s Church, Providence, RI details > Capturing Music: The Technology of Medieval Sound (with Thomas Forrest Kelly) Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 6 PM Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Auditorium P…
…st of the musical “general practitioner”— the amateur scholar, the organist-cum-antiquarian—which British musicology was for social and historical reasons especially anxious to lay. I believed, however, that the potential benefits outweighed the risks: competent restoration might increase awareness of this repertory and encourage a more balanced appraisal of English church music; and it could rescue a large amount of music—some of it very good ind…
…4 or bass clef, with female sopranos used in place of higher boys on treble-clef parts. (High-clef pieces are dealt with similarly, after transposition downwards.) Next we consider what little we know about regional variation in pitch—basically extrapolating backwards, with appropriate caution, from trends observable from the late sixteenth century onwards. Finally we try the piece out and see whether it would be more comfortable for our particula…
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…ers, CityArts | October 27, 2011 Blue Heron and Ensemble Plus Ultra—two out-of-the-box choirs from out of town—met in New York City last week to present a concert of 16th-century music so rousing that it was met by a standing ovation; the stunning stained glass at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church rattled to cheers associated more with Don Giovanni than sacred polyphony. Read the full review > Blue Heron and Ensemble Plus Ultra: Stunning Polyphony Re…
…Wall Street Journal Online: Toward the end of the evening, Mr. Kelly did a fast-patter notation deconstruction of the scariest-looking manuscript, “En attendant, Esperance conforte” by Jacob Senleches (1380s). But when the tenor Owen McIntosh sang it, accompanied by lute and harp, its visual complexities resolved into extraordinary beauty, with its long melismas and word-painting expressivity harking back to the neumes on those early chants. Heidi…
…019 she won awards of special distinction in teaching from the Derek Bok Center. She is a 2017 recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Blended Learning Initiative Grant for innovative teaching at Wellesley College. Her recent essay, “Aesthetics of Performance in the Renaissance: Lessons from Noblewomen,” appears in Uncovering Music of Early European Women 1250-1750, edited by Claire Fontijn (Routledge Studies in Musical Genres, 2019)….
…vocal works presented by new performers. Among the roster of old but never-before-heard pieces, those in the Peterhouse Partbooks from the early 16th century are especially fascinating for scholarly reasons, and highly worthy for musical ones as well. … The fourth Blue Heron Choir release includes Ave cujus conceptio by Ludford (c. 1490-1557); a moving and beautifully proportioned four-section Missa Spes nostra by Robert Jones (flourished 1520-35…
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…sm in 20th-century modernist musical thought. She is the author of two book-length studies of late-medieval songbooks, one focusing on the northern Italian manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Alpha.M.5.24, and the other, co-authored with Yolanda Plumley, on the so-called “Chantilly codex” (Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly, MS 564). Other publications include article-length studies of songs by Guillaume de Machaut, Johannes Ciconia, and Matt…
Blue Heron is engaged in the exploration of Renaissance and medieval vocal music, putting the study of original sources in the service of vivid live performance. Widely regarded as the finest ensemble of its type in North America, Blue Heron presents a subscription series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a catalog of exceptional recordings is available on the Blue Heron label. The ensemble’s accolades include the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, making Blue Heron the first group from outside Europe to receive the award; the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society; and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Touring engagements have taken the group across the United States as well as to Canada and England. Blue Heron is early music for the 21st century.
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