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ArtsJournal: music
2019-11-27 17:31:00
Why Museum Workers Across America Are Unionizing
The New Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle have all formed unions this year. And the tide doesn’t seem to be slowing: On November 22, a group of workers from Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art across multiple departments—exhibitions, education, communications, and […]
2019-06-09 07:00:22
Medieval magic from the Binchois Consort, the Doric quartet play Britten and Purcell, and the sound of the future• The Catherine whose name is associated with the wheel was Saint Catherine (or Katherine) of Alexandria. As part of their ongoing series exploring the link between English alabaster and medieval music (to summarise a quite subtle idea), the Binchois Consort has created a programme of early polyphony – Music for Saint Katherine (Hyperion) – associated with the virgin-martyr, object of a cult in England after 1066. The best-known composer is Dunstaple (c1390-1453), represented by the devotional Gaude virgo salutata, and the more elaborate motet Salve scema sanctitatis. With works by Walter Frye (d.1475) and others, and images in the CD booklet of Katherine’s martyrdom depicted in alabaster, this disc rewards detailed attention. It’s sung with grace and finesse by this ensemble of six male voices, directed by Andrew Kirkman. • Last October […]
2018-08-26 06:00:09
The Binchois Consort excel in their follow-up to Music for the 100 Years War, while Julian Anderson is beautifully served by the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge • If you haven’t come across the late medieval alabaster sculptures made mostly around Nottinghamshire, the Binchois Consort’s latest album for Hyperion, The Lily & the Rose – subtitled “Adoration of the Virgin in sound and stone” – should prompt you to seek them out. Conductor Andrew Kirkman and the consort’s six male voices explore the connections between sound and image in the “long 15th century” (c1380-1520). Sung with crystalline perfection, and recorded in the atmospheric surroundings of Ascot Priory, Berkshire, this sequence of Marian English polyphony introduces us to names, John Dunstaple aside, still not widely known: John Cooke, Walter Frye, John Bedyngham, John Plummer and more. The CD liner notes provide essays, several pictures of alabasters and all the texts. Listen and be transported. • […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-20 06:51:59
[…] the remainder of the program, the movements of Ockeghem’s Caput Mass were interspersed with motets and songs by his predecessors and contemporaries. The song-like Marian antiphon “Quam pulchra es” (How beautiful you are) on a text from the Song of Songs, by the older English composer John Pyamour, with its smoothly consonant harmonies and sinuous melodic lines, was in complete contrast to the Gloria. Following in the same tradition were two three-voice pieces by Walter Frye, another English composer whose works survive almost exclusively in continental manuscripts. His English ballade “Alas alas” and widely known Latin antiphon “Ave regina coelorum, mater regis angelorum” (Hail queen of heaven, mother of the king of angels) are stylistically similar in their rhythmic flexibility and smooth melodic progression. The bright “G major” (Mixolydian) sound of the Gloria from the English Mass projected another contrasting sound with its straightforward phrase structure and clear cadences. Ockeghem’s […]
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