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Franco-Flemish composer and harpist
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-05-01 15:45:47
Buoyant Ensemble Conquers Danger
[…] who died in 1377. The same words turn up a generation later embedded in the second line of an anonymous rondeau, “Esperance qui en mon cuer s’embat / Sentir me fait d’amer la doulce vie.” This in turn gave rise to a rondeau that begins “En attendant d’amer la douce vie” (While awaiting the sweet life of love), attributed to the otherwise unknown Johannes Galiot; to the ballade “En attendant, Esperance conforte” by Jacob de Senleches; and to another ballade, “En atendant souffrir m’estuet grief payne” by Phillipus de Caserta that also contains musical references to Senleches’s ballade. “Souffrir m’estuet” was the motto of the francophile Bernabò Visconti of Milan, by the way, while “Esperance” was adopted by the French royal family. This interlinked repertory, although French-texted, was international: minstrels from northern and southern France travelled regularly to Flanders as well as to Aragon and northern Italy, carrying their songs […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-06-09 22:16:10
BEMFers Support Their Own
[…] by members of Seven Times Salt for some beautifully colored improvisations on works by de Sermisy and Praetorius. Anne Azéma led singers from the Boston Camerata in sonically brilliant performances of 12th- and 13th-century French songs. This was followed by Exultemus’s warm, smile-inducing renditions of two of the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Toward the end of the evening, tenor Owen McIntosh and two other Blue Heron musicians gave a deep and sly delivery of Jacob Senleches’s quirky En attendant, Esperance conforte. Indeed, all the performances were remarkable. Singers from Tapestry reveled in the beautifully exposed textures of a Notre Dame conductus and a two-part song by Ciconia. Members of Meravelha delivered ardent interpretations of motets from the Montpellier Codex. Two soulful and intimately rich works from the Turkish repertoire were offered by musicians of the Dünya collective. Na’ama Lion, Doug Freundlich, and Frances Conover Fitch indulged in some delightful diminutions […]
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