[music] BEMF 2011: The Earlier Guide: First Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
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Sunday, June 12
2:00pm Medieval/Spanish and German Eya "Pilgrimmage." (Allison Mondel, soprano & director; Robin Smith, soprano; Kristen Dubenion-Smith, mezzo-soprano). Eya follows the humming routes of the Camino de Santiago toward the mountaintop monastery of Montserrat, with music of medieval Spain from the Codex Calixtinus, Las Huelgas Codex, and the Llibre Vermel. Interspersed throughout the program are the liturgical songs of Hildegard von Bingen devoted to St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgins, martyred along their doomed journey.
Marsh Chapel, Boston University. (map)
$10 suggested donation.
copy to my Google calendar 2:00pm Ren/French Vox Lucens Renaissance Choir "Nicholas Gombert’s Missa Quam pulchra es." (Jay Lane, director). Spectacular and rarely performed, this work is an opulent tapestry in sound. Based on a motet by Bauldeweyn, the mass weaves six voices together to create complex and beautifully unexpected sonorities. It has been newly edited for this performance from a 16th-century print.
Goethe-Institut Boston. (map)
$15/$12 st, sr.
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10:00am Late Ren/Women Composers University of Georgia Collegium Musicum "Of Convents and Courts." (Mitos Andaya, director). In a tribute to Renaissance and Baroque women composers and performers, the University of Georgia Collegium Musicum will venture musically from convent to court by performing madrigals and motets from Maddalena Casulana, Sulpitia Cesis, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Barbara Strozzi, and more. Join the celebration of these rare works by some of the earliest published women composers. Performed as part of the Early Music America Young Performers Festival.
First Church in Boston. (map)
$10 suggested donation.
copy to my Google calendar 4:00pm Late Ren/Spanish and New World El Fuego "A Cantar y Bailar!" (Teri Kowiak, voice; Dan Meyers, voice, recorder & percussion; Zoe Weiss, viola da gamba & Baroque violoncello; Salome Sandoval, voice, vihuela & Baroque guitar). An exploration of the villancicos and zacaras in the 16th & 17th centuries from Spain to the New World (Mexico and Guatemala). Works by Juan del Encina, Juan de Araujo, Fray Francisco de Santiago, and Rafael Antonio Castellanos.
Beacon Hill Friends House. (map)
$10 suggested donation.
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12:15pm 1533/French Travessada "From the 20 & 7 Songs." (Peter H. Bloom, Eric Haas, David Place, and Na’ama Lion, Renaissance flutes). A concert featuring chansons from the Vingt et Sept Chanson Musicales, published in 1533 by Pierre Attaingnant, in Paris. This publication was the first to indicate part songs to be played specifically by a concert of transverse flutes. So, of course, it is at the very heart of our repertoire. We’ll play songs by Sermisy, Gombert, Passerau, and others.
Kings’ Chapel. (map)
$3 suggested donation.
copy to my Google calendar 3:00pm Medieval Armonia Nova "L’art de l’amour: the transforming power of love in the medieval world." (Constance Whiteside, director & Medieval harp; Allison Mondel, soprano; Marjorie Bunday, alto). Love’s power to transform us-with joy, impetuosity, jealousy, sorrow, spirituality-is beautifully evoked with fantastical imagery, in musical gems from 12th-through 15th-century Europe.
Hale Chapel, First Church in Boston. (map)
$12/$10 st, sr, EMA.
copy to my Google calendar 8:00pm Ren/It, En, Fr The King's Singers "Triumphs - Renaissance Conquests in Love and War" (David Hurley & Timothy Wayne-Wright, countertenor; Paul Phoenix, tenor; Philip Lawson & Christopher Gabbitas, baritone; Jonathan Howard, bass). One of the world’s most celebrated vocal groups, with a discography of over 150 recordings to their credit, The King’s Singers make their long-awaited début at the Boston Early Music Festival. This Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble will present a program of madrigals from Italy, England, and France, exploring themes ranging from lofty ideals of courtly love to the human drama on the streets of Paris. The King’s Singers are consummate entertainers-a class act with a delightfully British wit.
NEC's Jordan Hall. (map)
$58/$45/$33/$22; Advance ticket purchase.
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