Early Music America - Events Feed

Bach on the Viols

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:33:58 -0700

Start: Oct 10 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 10 2008 - 10:00pm

The Elizabethan Syngers sing at Pine Tree Apple Orchard

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:19:54 -0700

Start: Oct 11 2008 - 1:30pm

End: Oct 11 2008 - 3:30pm

Elizabethan Syngers

A New Musical Cosmos

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:25:48 -0700

Start: Oct 11 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Oct 11 2008 - 9:20pm

Early Music Now: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:10:56 -0700

Start: Oct 11 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Oct 11 2008 - 9:30pm

Dutch recorder virtuoso Marion Verbruggen joins five soloists from Nicholas McGeghan’s period instrument orchestra in chamber concerti of Antonio Vivaldi. “You could not find Vivaldi that is fresher

AVE - St. Francis of Assisi: Musings on a New World Order

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58:50 -0700

Start: Oct 11 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 11 2008 - 10:00pm

AVE celebrates the life and works of San Francisco's patron

La Pellegrina - French baroque music

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:00:59 -0800

Start: Oct 12 2008 - 1:00am

End: Oct 17 2008 - 11:00pm

Dir: Dirkjan Horringa. French baroque music. French baroque musicSingers and instrumentalists will work with the rich music of the Sun Kingis court at Versailles. Composers like Lully, Campra, Du Mont, Delalande, Gilles, Couperin, Rebel, Rameau and Charpentier will be performed in works for soloists, choir and orchestra. The orchestra will study a suite for orchestra only. .

The Elizabethan Syngers at Pine Tree Apple Orchard

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:19:22 -0700

Start: Oct 12 2008 - 1:30pm

End: Oct 12 2008 - 1:30pm

Elizabethan Syngers Strolling Troubadours in Renaissance Costume.

A New Musical Cosmos

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:30:53 -0700

Start: Oct 12 2008 - 3:00pm

End: Oct 12 2008 - 4:30pm

AVE - St. Francis of Assisi: Musings on a New World Order

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58:33 -0700

Start: Oct 12 2008 - 4:00pm

End: Oct 12 2008 - 6:00pm

AVE celebrates the life and works of San Francisco's patron saint through song, both old and new. The program features works spanning more than eight centuries, from anonymous 12th century Lauds to contemporary works by jazz composer Anders Paulsson. Also performed; Palestrina's rarely performed setting of the Canticle of Simeon (Nunc

Harpsichord Recital

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:57:13 -0700

Start: Oct 12 2008 - 4:00pm

End: Oct 12 2008 - 5:00pm

Music by J. S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, Domenico Scarlatti, and the New York premiere of Graham Lynch's "Petenera".

The Spanish High Renaissance

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:42:25 -0700

Start: Oct 16 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 16 2008 - 10:00pm

Near the end of the 16th century, the Spanish musical scene was flourishing. Composers like Lobo, Victoria, and Guerrero filled their work with the quintessential mysticism that are the defining characteristics of the Iberian Renaissance.

Amherst Early Music Fall Weekend Workshop

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:23:28 -0800

Start: Oct 17 2008 - 4:00pm

End: Oct 20 2008 - 1:00pm

Classes for recorder, viol, flute, and Renaissance winds. Recorder master class, consorts, mixed ensembles, and notation classes. Held at the beautiful Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. Enjoy New England's fall foliage in the southern Berkshires. Paths are level, and buildings are close together and accessible with railings and ramps.

Soirée of Bach Violin Sonatas & Mozart Opera Selections

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:30:42 -0700

Start: Oct 18 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Oct 18 2008 - 10:30pm

Several of New York's leading period instrument performers will assemble in a landmark location to offer a concert to raise funds to support medical research to find a cure for brain tumors.

Collegium Vocale Gent and Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:51:40 -0700

Start: Oct 18 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 18 2008 - 8:00pm

Acclaimed Belgian vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale Gent teams up with the electrifying fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout to perform captivating songs written by Haydn near the end of his life. Free parking and 7pm pre-concert talk included with ticket purchase.

Gala Season Opener: A Collaboration with Baltimore Chamber Orchestra

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:40:30 -0700

Start: Oct 19 2008 - 3:00pm

End: Oct 19 2008 - 5:00pm

Mozart Symphony No. 31 Paris, KV 297 in D Major Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Fauré Requiem, Op. 48

MUSIC TO MICHELANGELO'S EAR

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:02:19 -0700

Start: Oct 19 2008 - 3:30pm

End: Oct 19 2008 - 3:30pm

In conjunction with a major art exhibit on Michelangelo at Syracuse University, we will present music that he may have heard either in Florence or in Rome and music representative of the religious events in his lifetime: Carnival songs and laude by Lorenzo de Medici and Savonarola, Heinrich Isaac's sacred and secular works from his Florence years,Josquin des Pres and the papal chapel choir, Mu

Chicago Early Music Consort: "A Medieval Tapestry"

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:00:51 -0700

Start: Oct 19 2008 - 4:00pm

End: Oct 19 2008 - 4:00pm

Music from 14th-centruy France and Italy. With Stephanie Sheffield, soprano; Gary Berkenstock, recorders; Joel Spears, lute; Phillip W. Serna, vielle

Mannerist Music of the Renaissance

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:03:48 -0700

Start: Oct 19 2008 - 4:00pm

End: Oct 19 2008 - 4:00pm

Pomerium, the venerable vocal chamber choir, will sing highly expressive Renaissance works by Lassus, Rore, Wert and Gesualdo in which harmonic instability and chromaticism dramatize the extreme sentiments of the motet and madrigal texts.

Boston Baroque presets Handel’s Xerxes (Serse)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:55:09 -0700

Start: Oct 24 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Oct 25 2008 - 7:30pm

Tallis, Taverner, Aston & Jones

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:23:46 -0700

Start: Oct 24 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 24 2008 - 8:00pm

Music from the Peterhouse partbooks: Tallis, Taverner, Aston & Jones

Chicago Early Music Consort: "A Medieval Tapestry"

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:02:06 -0700

Start: Oct 25 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Oct 25 2008 - 7:30pm

Music of 14th-century France and Italy. With Stephanie Sheffield, soprano; Gary Berkenstock, recorders; Joel Spears, lute; Phillip W. Serna, vielle

Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:54:19 -0700

Start: Oct 25 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 25 2008 - 8:00pm

Incomparable viola da gambist Jordi Savall and his instrumental ensemble Hespèrion XXI pay homage to Miguel de Cervantes, the great Spanish author whose vivid descriptions of music both ancient and contemporary evoked peace and joy, melancholy and sadness, beauty and passion.

Ostinato!

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:40:43 -0700

Start: Oct 29 2008 - 12:00pm

End: Oct 29 2008 - 12:00pm

Ostinato! features popular bass lines from Italy and Germany in the early17th century.

Ostinato!

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:32:23 -0700

Start: Oct 29 2008 - 12:00pm

End: Oct 29 2008 - 12:00pm

Ostinato! features popular bass lines from Italy and Germany in the early17th century.

Mme Bégon en Nouvelle-France

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:46:10 -0700

Start: Oct 29 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 29 2008 - 10:00pm

Excerpts from letters of Mme Bégon (17th c.) written while she lived in Trois-Rivières. Music that was found in Nouvelle-France (Livre d'orgue de Montréal; Rameau; Montéclair; Jacquet de la Guerre, etc)

SABO workshop

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:53:12 -0800

Start: Oct 30 2008 - 12:00am

End: Nov 2 2008 - 12:00am

This 4 day workshop is for singers and continuo players working on solo's duo's trio's and opera scenes from the Roman composers Luigi Rossi and Giacomo Carissimi.

A Concert for the Feast of All Souls

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:19:32 -0700

Start: Nov 1 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Nov 1 2008 - 9:30pm

Join San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Director) and guest artist Dominic Schaner, lute/theorbo/mandora for their annual Halloween weekend concerts. This year's performance, "A Concert for the Feast of All Souls" features hauntingly beautiful music from the Franco-Flemish Renaissance including the Requiem (Office of the Dead) of Antoine

Hidden Valley Early Music Elderhostel

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:24:36 -0800

Start: Nov 2 2008 - 12:00am

End: Nov 8 2008 - 12:00am

Classes include technique, Renaissance ensembles, Baroque chamber music, theory, orchestra. Intermediate to advanced players of recorder, viola da gamba, and harpsichord.

Hidden Valley Early Music Elderhostel

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:57:11 -0800

Start: Nov 2 2008 - 1:00am

End: Nov 8 2008 - 12:00am

Dir: Tish Berlin. For intermediate and up players of recorder, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Classes in technique, consort, baroque chamber music, theory, orchestra. Adults of all ages welcome. FMI: Tish Berlin, Director. P.O. Box 116, Carmel Valley, CA, USA

Machaut's "Messe de Nostre Dame"

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:02:16 -0700

Start: Nov 2 2008 - 4:00pm

End: Nov 2 2008 - 4:00pm

Diabolus in Musica, the renowned French vocal octet, makes its American debut performing Machaut’s great 14th-century Messe de Nostre Dame. It is the first complete Mass Ordinary written by a single composer, and is one of the earliest polyphonic masses.

Handel in Italy

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:26:05 -0700

Start: Nov 2 2008 - 4:00pm

End: Nov 2 2008 - 4:00pm

A Concert for the Feast of All Souls

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:18:19 -0700

Start: Nov 2 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Nov 2 2008 - 10:00pm

Hildegard's "Ordo Virtutum"

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:54:21 -0700

Start: Nov 5 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Nov 5 2008 - 9:30pm

A new production of Hildegard von Bingen's medeival music-drama.

Beethoven and Mozart

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:26:01 -0700

Start: Nov 7 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Nov 9 2008 - 5:00pm

Friday, November 7 at 8pm
Sunday, November 9 at 3pm

Richard Egarr, Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, leads Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 from the fortepiano and conducts Mozart's lively Symphony No. 1 and Beethoven's delightful Symphony No. 8

Biber-Requiem & Gesualdo-Tenebrae

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:42 -0700

Start: Nov 8 2008 - 7:30pm

End: Nov 8 2008 - 9:30pm

East Coast Premiere of H.I.F. Biber's Requiem in A major a 15 voices for Choir and soloists SSATBB, Brass, Reeds, Strings and Continuo.

A selection of Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Lessons in version emulating Hilliard ensemble's 'Officium' - with superimposed Saxophone improvisations by Rodrigo Tarraza.

O Eternal Fire: The Brilliance of Handel and Bach

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:42:06 -0700

Start: Nov 8 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Nov 8 2008 - 11:00pm

We continue a new Handel Choir tradition of pairing two hallmark baroque composers, Handel and Bach. Handel's The King shall rejoice, written to celebrate the coronation of King George II in Westminster Abbey (1727), is set for festive baroque orchestra and voices.

Music of the 17th-century with violinists Laura Gulley and Julie McKenzie

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:28:17 -0700

Start: Nov 8 2008 - 8:00pm

End: Nov 8 2008 - 8:00pm

Hidden Valley Early Music Elderhostel

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:29:42 -0800

Start: Nov 9 2008 - 12:00am

End: Nov 15 2008 - 12:00am

Classes include technique, Renaissance and Medieval ensembles, Baroque chamber music, theory, orchestra, etc. Intermediate to advanced players of recorder, viola da gamba, harpsichord, et al.

Hidden Valley Early Music Elderhostel

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:10:18 -0800

Start: Nov 9 2008 - 12:00am

End: Nov 15 2008 - 12:00am

Dir: Tish Berlin. For intermediate and up players of recorder, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Classes in technique, consort, baroque chamber music, theory, orchestra. FMI: Tish Berlin, Workshop Director. P.O. Box 116, Carmel Valley, CA, USA