… A Mass for St. Augustine of Canterbury April 15, 2015 at 8:00 pm Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Cathedral Concerts April 17, 2015 at 7:30 pm Rockefeller Chapel (University of Chicago) Howard Mayer Brown Early Music Series April 18, 2015 at 3:00 pm St. Joseph Center Chapel, Milwaukee, WI Early Music Now …
Steven Bradshaw has appeared as a soloist with The Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare, Piffaro, Bang on a Can, Old City Baroque, The Bach Collegium of Philadelphia, and Network for New Music. He sings with Seraphic Fire and his sextet, Variant 6, and has performed and recorded with Roomful of Teeth, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Spire, The Thirteen, Fuma Sacra, Opera Philadelphia, Yale Choral Artists, and Apollo’s Fire. He is a …
© Kate L Photography | www.kateLphotography.com With a vibrant instrument and sensitive stage presence, tenor Alexander Nishibun has been singled out as “a delight…capable of stealing the show with a gesture” (Portland Press Herald). Nishibun performs widely in the greater Boston area and collaborates with ensembles throughout the US, singing with Vox Humana, Les Canards Chantants, Cappella Clausura, the Handel & Haydn Society, Kinnara Ensemble, …
… From the Eton Choirbook to the Peterhouse Partbooks Friday, February 5, 2016 at 8 pm Wellesley Village Church, Wellesley, MA Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 8 pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Download program book …
Missa Ecce ancilla domini Ockeghem@600, Concert 4 Saturday, October 15, 2016 • 8 PM First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street (Next to the Sheraton Commander) Blue Heron’s series presenting the complete works of Johannes Ockeghem continues with a program featuring one of his most captivatingly lovely masses along with other music addressed to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven, including Ockeghem’s motet Ave Maria, his wonderful fi…
Ockeghem – or Okeghem? Johannes de Okeghem was born around 1420 in the small town of Saint Ghislain, near Mons, in the county of Hainaut and in the diocese of Cambrai. Saint Ghislain lies in modern-day Belgium, about 40 miles southwest of Brussels and less than ten miles from the present border with France. The county of Hainaut or Hainault was a lordship within the Holy Roman Empire with its capital at Mons (Bergen in Flemish); the name comes fr…
Ockeghem@600 Ockeghem@600 is Blue Heron’s multi-year project to perform the complete works of Johannes Ockeghem, one of the very greatest composers of the Western tradition, in thirteen programs over the course of seven seasons. Inaugurated in the spring of 2015, Ockeghem@600 will wind up more or less commemorating the 600th anniversary of Ockeghem’s birth in circa 1420. Besides concerts, the project demands and includes a significant component o…
The Music of Ockeghem Ockeghem’s surviving music comprises two dozen songs, four motets, nine complete Mass cycles, three partial Mass cycles, an independent Credo, and an incomplete Requiem. Songs Aultre Venus Baisiés moi D’un autre amer Fors seulement contre ce Fors seulement l’actente Il ne m’en chault Je n’ay dueil (two versions) La despourveue L’autre d’antan Les desleaux Ma bouche rit Ma maistresse Mort tu as navré Alius discantus super O r…
Divine Songs Concert Program Program Notes Ockeghem@600, Concert 1 Ockeghem, Binchois & Du Fay Concert Program Program Notes Ockeghem@600, Concert 2 Ockeghem, Busnoys, Regis, Caron & Faugues Concert Program Program Notes Ockeghem@600, Concert 3 L’homme armé Concert Program Program Notes Ockeghem@600, Concert 4 Ecce ancilla domini Concert Program Program Notes Ockeghem@600, Concert 5 Caput Concert Program Program Notes Ockeghem@600, Concert 6 Ma m…
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… Two tickets to a subscription concert at the New York Philharmonic. Program and date to be mutually agreed upon by the winner and the donor; tickets are subject to availability and may be chosen 1-2 months in advance of the concert date. Generously donate by Daniel Druckman, Associate Principal Percussionist, and father of Blue Heron’s loyal new intern, Holly Druckman. Next auction item > Fair Market value: $150-$200. Minimum bid: $75 …
Two B-Level Seats to any concert during the Bicentennial Season of Handel and Haydn Society | Harry Christophers, Artistic Director Voucher is not valid for Mozart Requiem, Handel Messiah, Holiday Sing or Bach Christmas. Next auction item > Fair Market Value: $136.00 Minimum Bid: $100.00 For details on the concerts, visit www.handelandhaydn.org This offer is non-transferable. Seats are subject to availability. Tickets will be held at Will Call an…
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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