This should be splendid! And please note that Blue Heron will also be performing on March 1st at BU as part of the conference Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond.
Press Release:
BLUE
HERON PRESENTS
Divine
Songs
Connections
and exchanges between secular song and sacred music, featuring the
music of Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497)
Johannes
Ockeghem, one of the greatest composers of all time, is completely
unknown to many listeners today. His endlessly fascinating sacred
music has been characterized as mystical; his songs, each one a gem
of invention, can be funny, heart wrenching, or profound. The program
includes French songs and sacred music based on them.
Pamela
Dellal, Paul Guttry, David McFerrin, Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots,
Martin Near, Mark Sprinkle and Sumner Thompson, voices
TO
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ABOUT
THE ENSEMBLE:
The
vocal ensemble Blue Heron, directed by Scott Metcalfe, has been
acclaimed by The Boston Globe as "one of the Boston music
community's indispensables" and hailed by Alex Ross in The New
Yorker for the "expressive intensity" of its
interpretations; the Boston Musical Intelligencer calls Blue Heron "a
fantastic model for the fully-realized potential of early music
performance in the 21st century." Combining a commitment to
vivid live performance with the study of original source materials
and historical performance practices, Blue Heron ranges over a wide
and fascinating repertoire.
Blue
Heron's first CD, featuring music by Guillaume Du Fay, was released
in 2007; its second, of music from the Peterhouse partbooks by Hugh
Aston, Robert Jones, and John Mason, followed in 2010. Both discs
have received international critical acclaim and the Peterhouse CD
made the Billboard charts. The second volume of Blue Heron's 5-CD
series Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, featuring music of
Nicholas Ludford and Richard Pygott, was released in April 2012. The
third in the series is due this Fall.
Founded
in 1999, Blue Heron presents subscription series in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and in New York City. The ensemble has appeared at the
Boston Early Music Festival, New York's 92nd Street Y, The Cloisters,
and Music Before 1800, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the
Pittsburgh Renaissance and Baroque Society, and Monadnock Music in
New Hampshire, and with the wind band Piffaro and the viol consort
Parthenia in Philadelphia. Blue Heron made its West Coast debut at
Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, California, and returned to
California in 2012 for a debut at the Berkeley Early Music Festival.
"Passionate
expression and dramatic attention to text...nuanced dynamic shadings
and emotive conviction"
"Sumptuously
beautiful...sung with bravura and grace"
"a
revelation - fresh, dynamic and vibrant...urgent and wondrous
music-making of the highest order"
Damian
Fowler, Gramophone | November, 2012
