…t of everyday life. As a member of NoBoston2024 and allied with No Boston Olympics, Reggie was able to lend his strength to the effort to reject the 2024 Olympic Games bid that was “awarded” to Boston. That and time volunteering in local political campaigns has helped focus a desire to make a difference within the arts, particularly with the massive inequality regarding race, gender, and sexuality within the classical music industry. Photo: Liz Li…
…was not our ultimate goal. We wanted something that was memorable and easily pronounceable; preferably in English, with some local flavor to it. Now, there are Great Blue Herons all over Boston and Massachusetts; they can be seen around ponds everywhere and up and down the Charles River. (In fact, they are found along the entire east coast, from Cape Breton Island to the Gulf of Mexico, and along the entire Pacific coast, too. They are even found…
…portant early choral projects of our time, has unearthed a series of masterly composers hitherto virtually unknown…Such is the authority of Scott Metcalfe and his singers with this repertoire that they negotiate even the most daringly challenging and unexpected passages with utter confidence, and, as previously, with a delicious blend of expressiveness and seemingly inexorable forward momentum.” id=”1500172588120-1″][/testimonial][testimonial titl…
…one Classical Music Award for Early Music and the 2020 Bestenliste (Quarterly Critics’ Choice) of the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics’ Award), Blue Heron looks to the future with confidence and excitement. Buoyed by your generous support of our previous campaign, we are now launching our 25th Anniversary Campaign. This campaign reaffirms that Blue Heron’s mission and highest priority is live performance,…
…strative work. Sara can help you with Blue Heron tickets, donations, or other questions about our upcoming concert season. When she is not working behind the scenes, Sara can be found performing on stage in opera, operetta, and musical theatre. Visit www.Sara-DeLong.com for her latest performance details. Sara lives with her husband, two step-daughters, and two Great Pyrenees in Arlington, MA. In her down time she enjoys board games, trips to the…
…Win a one-night stay at this wonderful bed and breakfast near Jamaica Pond! Blue Heron board member (and singer, and chef) Daryl Bichel is co-owner, with David Elliott, of Taylor House in Jamaica Plain. Taylor House is at 50 Burroughs Street in Jamaica Plain. Visit www.taylorhouse.com to see how wonderful this B&B is! EXCLUSIONS: Cannot be used on a three-day weekend. Fair market value: $209.00 Minimum bid: $150.00…
…ensemble singing. Pamela Dellal serves on the faculties of the Boston Conservatory, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and Brandeis University. She is a long-time member of Blue Heron and Emmanuel Music, and has appeared frequently with ensembles from Sequentia to Dinosaur Annex. Her professional career spans repertoire from the 12th to the 21st centuries. To learn more, visit her website at www.pameladellal.com. Next auction item > Retai…
…n a soloist with Conspirare (Austin), Bach Collegium San Diego, TENET, Ars Lyrica (Houston), New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), and the Oregon Bach Festival, and is the baritone soloist on the 2012 Grammy-nominated recording of Brahms’s Requiem with Seraphic Fire (Miami). Recent engagements include Britten’s War Requiem, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Bloch’s Sacred Service, the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the Station Master in Paul Crabtree’s…
…amber music, early music, and contemporary music, she has appeared frequently with Dinosaur Annex, Boston Musica Viva, Ensemble Chaconne, Blue Heron, and the Musicians of the Old Post Road. She has been a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music for over thirty-five years and is close to accomplishing her goal of singing all the alto movements in Bach’s sacred works. She has made over forty commercial recordings, for Artona, BMG, CRI, Dorian, Meridian,…
…Living in Light, is now available from Albany Records. Ms. Rood holds degrees from the University of Michigan and McGill University. www.MargotRood.com Photo: Kelly Blackmon…
…the usual mixed choir of boys and men but for men’s voices alone, presumably because only these were available to him. It is interesting that one of the references in the text is accompanied by a reference in the music: when the words “Sicut cervus aquarum fontes” from Psalm 41:2 are quoted, the bass voice sings the melody to which they are sung in the plainchant tract from the Mass for the dead. Robert Jones’s Magnificat is a setting of the New…
…era London, and with most major North American baroque orchestras. Especially sought after in the works of Bach and Handel, Mr. Howell has recorded for the American Bach Soloists, Warner Classics, Rhino, and Gothic labels. His debut solo CD, 1685 and the Art of Ian Howell with The American Bach Soloists features repertory by Domenico Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, and G.F. Handel. He can also be heard with the all male chamber choir Chanticleer on one DVD…
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, Canada, England, and Europe.
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