Ockeghem Academy February 24, 2021 7:00 PM March 3, 2021 7:00 PM March 10, 2021 7:00 PM Online ticket sales have ended, but if you would still like to join the academy, please contact us directly to purchase tickets. A 3-part lecture series (90 minutes each, including Q&A) presented by Blue Heron’s Artistic Director Scott Metcalfe and Professor Sean Gallagher of the New England Conservatory, adviser to our Ockeghem@600 project. Each lecture will…
…American Songbook Cabaret with Silent Auction Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:30 PM Live & Interactive Cocktail hour (premium only) 7:30 PM Cabaret Click here to bid in the Silent Auction Tickets: $150 Premium | $75 General Have you ever wondered what our fabulous Blue Heron artists do when they aren’t singing beautiful medieval and renaissance pieces? Join us on the evening of Wednesday, September 23 to find out! The charismatic Herons will show…
…and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers (Oxford University Press, 2010) and a number of articles on medieval and contemporary topics. She is currently writing a book on the Scratch Orchestra and participatory music-making in London since the 1970s. With degrees from Manchester University, King’s College, London, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is active as a singer and conductor, seeing performance as the most effe…
…ury English and Franco-Flemish polyphony, Spanish music between 1500 and 1600, and neglected early 16th-century English music, especially the unique repertory of the Peterhouse partbooks, copied c. 1540 for Canterbury Cathedral. The ensemble also regularly performs earlier and later music, from a concert version of Guillaume de Machaut’s Remede de Fortune to a collaboration with A Far Cry featuring Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Le Cantique des Cantique…
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…is in your address book so these do not get sent to your spam folder. Pre-concert lectures and post-concert receptions (subscribers only) will be held on Zoom at a prescribed date and time, and concert videos will be streamed on our website. No account or sign-up is needed to access these links, but they will all be password-protected for security reasons; the password will be included in the aforementioned email. Once a concert date has passed,…
…n from his perch in the firmament of great composers as he approaches the 600th anniversary of his presumed date of birth, Johannes Ockeghem can safely conclude that his music is alive and well. Read the full review > Blue Heron opens Music Before 1800 season with subtle Ockeghem David Wright, New York Classical Review | October 2, 2017 In all configurations, the singers meshed flawlessly without a conductor…. In the program’s second half, the ens…
…ly balanced and beautifully recorded” David Fallows, Gramophone | January 2020 The signal virtue of Blue Heron’s Ockeghem is that they give the music room to breathe: this has always been rare in performances of 15th-century song and it pays instant dividends. Innumerable unfamiliar details come out of these performances … these are performances of absolute clarity, beautifully in tune, beautifully balanced and beautifully recorded.… A major new s…
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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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