earlymusicboston.com http://earlymusicboston.com Early Music Boston Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:49:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en 2007-2008 performances http://earlymusicboston.com/42/2007-2008-performances/ http://earlymusicboston.com/42/2007-2008-performances/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:55:15 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/42/2007-2008-performances/ Elizabethan Pleasures

Madrigals for 4-6 voices from the Golden Age of English music. Works by Morley, Tomkins, Gibbons, Byrd, Wilbye & others.

September 2007

Elizabeth’s Music: Motets & Madrigals from Court & Chapel

Music by some of the greatest Elizabethan composers for Her Majesty’s court & chapels, including works by Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons, Morley, Wilbye, Dowland, Farmer & others.

Two performances in November 2007.

]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/42/2007-2008-performances/feed/ Summer Concerts 2008 http://earlymusicboston.com/41/summer-concerts-2008/ http://earlymusicboston.com/41/summer-concerts-2008/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:41:08 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/41/summer-concerts-2008/ Details on our August 2008 concert of music from the CounterReformation will be available soon.

Repertoire will include

  • Palestrina Missa ‘L’homme armé’
  • Victoria Lamentations from the First Nocturn
  • motets by Guerrero, Lassus & others
]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/41/summer-concerts-2008/feed/ Ars et Amici in Italy — February 13-25, 2008 http://earlymusicboston.com/15/travel-to-italy/ http://earlymusicboston.com/15/travel-to-italy/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:19:49 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/15/travel-to-italy/ Our ninth tour in Italy included performances in Naples, Sorrento & Rome.

  • Naples: Mass at San Carlo Borromeo & Christ Church (Anglican)
  • Sorrento: Mass at the Cattedrale & Concert at Chiesa dei Servi di Maria
  • Rome: Concert & Mass at Sant’Alfonso, Mass at Santa Susanna,  Mass at San Pietro

Gesualdo Toccata (recorders)
Macque Canzona Quarta alla francese (recorders)
Macque Consonanze stravaganti (recorders)
Mazzone Come la vaga
Morales Clamabat autem mulier
Palestrina Adoramus te, Christe
Palestrina Missa brevis — Kyrie & Agnus Dei
Scarlatti Exaltabo te Domine (with recorders)
Trabaci Durezze, e ligature (recorders)
Victoria Lamentatio. Lectio I-III
 Wert Vox in Rama

2008 Ars et Amici participants

Sopranos Cathryn Baty, Helen Chen, Lucy O’Mara, Catherine Orloff Altos Dianne Boucher, Catherine Cummins, Elizabeth DeMarrais, Joan Griscom, Nancy Peacock
Tenors Keith Ohmart, Andrew Sigel
Basses Robert Cochran, George Mastellone, Roland Miller, Robert O’Mara 

Recorders Christine Alderman, David Barnert, Jean Hopkins,
Nancy Kesselring, George Mastellone

Director Sheila Beardslee

If you are interested to join us on a future trip, please contact Sheila Beardslee: sheilabb@verizon.net.
Singers, instrumentalists, family and friends welcomed.

]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/15/travel-to-italy/feed/ Concert May 13, 2008 at 12:15 PM http://earlymusicboston.com/37/music-at-church-march-21-2008-at-130-pm/ http://earlymusicboston.com/37/music-at-church-march-21-2008-at-130-pm/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:18:14 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/37/music-at-church-march-21-2008-at-130-pm/ Merry May-hem

Sheila Beardslee, Christine Alderman, Janet Gibson, George Mastellone & Brian Warnock, recorders

Music by Elizabethan Composers including dances by Holborne & Dowland, fantasias by Dering & Tye, madrigals by East, Farmer & Morley; Byrd’s magnificent “Leaves be greene.”

King’s Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston
MBTA:  Park or Government Center

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Suggested Donation  $3
Information:  617 / 227-2155

Directions at http://www.kings-chapel.org

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Tuesday, September 18, 12:15 pm

]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/29/works-of-js-bach/feed/ Bach Nur jedem das Seine! http://earlymusicboston.com/28/bach-nur-jedem-das-seine/ http://earlymusicboston.com/28/bach-nur-jedem-das-seine/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:17:16 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/28/bach-nur-jedem-das-seine/ Emmanuel Music (Craig Smith, cond), BWV 163. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

Sunday, September 16, 10 am

]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/28/bach-nur-jedem-das-seine/feed/ Off The Beaten Track http://earlymusicboston.com/27/off-the-beaten-track/ http://earlymusicboston.com/27/off-the-beaten-track/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:16:15 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/27/off-the-beaten-track/ WHUS 91.7 FM (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

Sunday, September 16 6-9 am

]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/27/off-the-beaten-track/feed/ Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet http://earlymusicboston.com/26/shakespeare-romeo-juliet/ http://earlymusicboston.com/26/shakespeare-romeo-juliet/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:15:03 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/26/shakespeare-romeo-juliet/ The Publick Theatre. Christian Herter Park, 1175A Soldiers Field Rd, Brighton. 617/782-5425 $32/27 st, sr www.publicktheatre.com

Saturday, September 1, 8 pm

]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/26/shakespeare-romeo-juliet/feed/ Mozart/Molière Don Juan Giovanni http://earlymusicboston.com/25/mozartmoliere-don-juan-giovanni/ http://earlymusicboston.com/25/mozartmoliere-don-juan-giovanni/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:14:06 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/25/mozartmoliere-don-juan-giovanni/ American Repertory Theatre (Dominique Serrand, dir; Barbara Brooks, music dir & piano; Daniel Stepner & Julie Leven, violins; Laura Jeppesen, viola; Guy Fishman, cello. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge. 617/547-8300 $56-79/46-69 sr, WGBH members/25 st/15 st rush www.amrep.org

Saturday, September 1 8 pm

]]> http://earlymusicboston.com/25/mozartmoliere-don-juan-giovanni/feed/ April 12, 2008: Leaves Be Greene http://earlymusicboston.com/22/april-12-2008-leaves-be-greene/ http://earlymusicboston.com/22/april-12-2008-leaves-be-greene/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:55:54 +0000 sheila http://earlymusicboston.com/22/april-12-2008-leaves-be-greene/ Leaves Be Greene — Music of Spring
Greenery and rebirth at a joyous time of year

41 recorder players sampled music from England, France, Italy & Spain
with Sarah Cantor, Eric Haas, Sarah Mead & Sheila Beardslee

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