American vocal and instrumental ensemble based in New York City
Commemorations 2024 (Dissolution: New York Pro Musica)
- Ensemble, Choir
- United States of America
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All the conducting master class
2018-06-08 15:26:25
The Noah Greenberg Award was established by the Trustees of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua in memory of their founder and first director. The award is intended as a grant-in-aid to stimulate active cooperation between scholars and performers by recognizing and fostering outstanding contributions to historical performing practices. Both scholars and performers may apply, […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-12-02 08:11:47
Alfred or Russell – who’s your countertenor of choice?
You cannot love both Deller and Oberlin – at least not at the same time. That’s Joel Cohen’s conclusion in this tribute to the first American countertenor, who died this week: Way back in my student days, his beautiful, otherwordly, almost inhuman voice was co-equivalent in my mind with the early music movement as a whole. This was my sophomore or junior year at Brown, and the Chamber Music series down at the School of Design auditorium was bringing in Noah Greenberg’s New York Pro Musica for a double bill: Flemish Renaissance music on the first half, Spanish Renaissance on the second. Although I had sung Renaissance partsongs in high school choir, and played a few lute transcriptions on my classical guitar, this was my first experience hearing an entire program of early music. By the end of the concert, I knew that performing this stuff was […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-11-30 22:56:55
The stuff of legend since his retirement from the concert stage in 1965, the distinguished countertenor died in New York City on November 26, 2016 at the age of 88. Russell Oberlin’s legacy will long endure in the recordings he made and musicians he mentored and inspired. One such shares his personal tribute. His beautiful, otherworldly, almost inhuman voice then epitomized the early music movement. In the 50s, when I was a junior or senior at Brown, the chamber music series at the School of Design Auditorium had brought in Noah Greenberg’s New York Pro Musica for a double bill: Flemish Renaissance music on the first half, Spanish Renaissance on the second. Although I had sung Renaissance partsongs in high school choir, and played a few lute transcriptions on my classical guitar, this concert delivered my very first hearing of an entire program of early music. By the end, I knew […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-11-27 09:54:50
Death of an early countertenor
Russell Oberlin made his name in the 1950s when the only countertenor to be heard on the world stage was Alfred Deller. He co-founded New York Pro Musica Antiqua in 1952, standing out as ‘a lone practitioner’ in the USA. Three years later Leonard Bernstein engaged him for a Messiah recording and kept him in mind when composing Chichester Psalms. Glenn Gould (see video) was another admirer. Russell also appeared as Oberon in the London premiere of Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. But in 1964, at the age of 36, he gave up public performance and retired to teach at Hunter College. Russell Oberlin died yesterday in New York at the age of 88.
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