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Chorus America’s 2021 Awards Recognize Outstanding Choruses and Individuals

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Chorus America has announced the recipients of its 2021 awards program, recognizing a broad range of achievements in choral music and service to the choral field. The awards program celebrates and fosters meaningful contributions from remarkable individuals and choruses. “Chorus America is delighted to recognize the accomplishments of these incredible award winners,” said Chorus America […]

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Midtown Concerts | ARTEK – Alessandro Grandi: Sacred Motets for Holy Week

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April, 2021, 1:15 PM EST Alessandro Grandi (1590-1630) Sacred Motets for Holy Week Selections from Grandi’s Motetti con Sinfonie (1621) including the solo motet O Vos Omnes, along with instrumental music of his contemporaries. Laura Heimes, soprano Peter Becker, bass-baritone Vita Wallace, violin Theresa Salomon, violin Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba Daniel Swenberg, theorbo Gwendolyn

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Orchestra of New Spain Virtual Event: Spanish Baroque Zarzuela ‘Love Conquers Impossible Love’

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Here’s a chance to see Orchestra of New Spain‘s Feb 2020 production of the Spanish Baroque Zarzuela Love Conquers Impossible Love, by Sebastián Durón. Based on the myth of Danae, whose father King Acrisius locks her in a tower, only to be saved by the love smitten Jupiter is described in the press as “a

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Midtown Concerts | Arnaut Consort – Medieval Treasure from Three Manuscripts

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March 25, 2021, 1:15 PM EST “Medieval Treasure from Three Manuscripts” Medieval music from three precious manuscripts, the Llibre Vermell of Montserrat, the Manuscrit du Roi, and the Codex Faenza. The repertoire includes instrumental arrangements of traditional folk songs and rhythmic dance works as well as liturgical music from the 13th to the 15th century. Satono Norizuki, clavisimbalum Patricia-Ann

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Handel and Haydn Society Celebrates Charles Ignatius Sancho With Jonathan Woody World Premiere Commission

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(Boston March 19, 2021) On Tuesday April 20, the Handel and Haydn Society presents the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Brooklyn-based composer Jonathan Woody, based on music in the compositions of Charles Ignatius Sancho (1729 – 1780), the first person of African descent to publish classical music.   Performed by members of

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