PARTHENIA
2011-2012 Season
New York City
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LUDI MUSICI
Musical Games and Theatrical Chamber Music c. 1600
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 8pm
NIGHT VISIONS
Contemporary Works with a Real-Time Music Visualization
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 8pm
SEASONS OF BEAUTY AND LOVE
Sumptuous Renaissance Music for Voice and Viols
Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 8
pm
MUSICA UNIVERSALIS
Musical Invention in the Age of Discovery
Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 8 pm
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The Concerts
(for past events this season, scroll down to the bottom of the page)
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WHEN MUSIC & SWEET POETRY AGREE
PARTHENIA
with Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo soprano
and Paul Hecht, actor
September 25, 2011 at 3 pm
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
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KING JAMES BIBLE 400TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR
PARTHENIA
November 11-14, 2011
Oxford, Miss.
Rhodes College, Memphis, Tenn.
Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.
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A RENAISSANCE ADVENT
The Canticum Novum Singers, directed by Harold Rosenbaum
PARTHENIA
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8pm
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 8pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue (at 87th Street)
Tickets: $25/$15
212.866.0468
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Evensong at St. Peter’s-by-the-Sea
PARTHENIA
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 4pm
Bayshore, Long Island
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LOVE SONGS IN THE AGE OF RONSARD
PARTHENIA
with Jason McStoots, tenor
and Duo Maresienne
(Carol Lewis, viol; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute)
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Hancock United Church of Christ, Lexington, MA
Tickets: $25/$20
More info and tickets or call 617-776-0692
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Music of the French Renaissance
Day-long viol workshop for the Viola da Gamba Society of New England
PARTHENIA
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Hancock United Church of Christ, Lexington, MA
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NIGHT VISIONSPARTHENIA New works for viol consort at The Queens New Music Festival Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 5:30 pmThe eGarage 44-02 23rd St., Long Island City, NY Tickets: $15/$20 More info and tickets
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LUDI MUSICI
Musical Games and Theatrical Chamber Music c. 1600
PARTHENIA
With Daniel Elyar and Marika Holmqvist, violins
German music for string band by Samuel Scheidt and William Brade.
Presented by The GEMS Project 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 8pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue (at 87th Street)
Manahattan
Tickets:
$40, $25, $15
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NIGHT VISIONS
PARTHENIA and guests explore the artistic mix of new music, old
instruments and visual design projection in a contemporary concert
setting.
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 8pm
Picture Ray Studios
245 West 18th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues)
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The ground bass theme known as "La Follia" (literally “the madness”) has captured the imagination of more than 150 composers over the past 330 years. Its short and seductive tune invites for a wide range of improvised variations, and Vivaldi, Corelli, Rachmaninoff, Vangelis, and Marin Marais are among those who wrote intriguing variations on the "Follia" as the form spread throughout most of Europe and beyond.
The follia’s broad geographic reach will be demonstrated at Jordi Savall’s upcoming concert at The Morgan Library, called Folias & Variations, a diverse program celebrating music of the 13th through 17th centuries, featuring works from England, France, Spain, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Catalonia, and Brittany. Picking up where The Morgan program leaves off, Parthenia will premiere Richard Einhorn’s 2011 follia set for quartet of viols, rooted in the bravura late 16-17th century traditions of the Italian baroque, but American contemporary in its rhythms, modulations, and playfulness.
Parthenia will also present recent works by Max Lifchitz, Eleonor Sandresky, Nicholas Patterson, as well as a new real-time music visualization by Andrew Lucia and Wendy Steiner in collaboration with composer Frances White, in which a five visual images created from the performers’ separately tracked live performance will evolve as the piece is played, to form a single projected visual.
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SEASONS OF BEAUTY AND LOVE
Sumptuous Music for Voice and Viols,
Celebrating the coming of Spring
PARTHENIA
with Ellen Hargis, soprano
Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 8 pm
Picture Ray Studio
245 West 18th Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)
Manhattan
All tickets ~ $35
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MUSICA UNIVERSALIS
Musical Invention in the Age of Discovery
PARTHENIA
with Sarah Cunningham, viol
The program will feature repertoire from the late 15th and 16th centuries, including Thomas Stoltzer’s Octo tonorum melodiae, 8 transporting, abstract fantasias in five parts, each one on a different church mode - tuneful melodies woven into counterpoint. There is no earlier example in music of such a cycle of instrumental pieces.
Also works in 3, 4 and 5 parts by Isaac, Senfl, Robert Parsons (the flashy Fantasia De la Court) and William Byrd's Browning.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 8 pm
Picture Ray Studio
245 West 18th Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)
Manhattan
All tickets ~ $35
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The journals of Leonardo da Vinci are a testament to his wide-ranging and creative mind. In them we can see the diverse machines he imagined and designed - airplanes, helicopters, irrigation devices, musical instruments, a bridge across the Bosphorus, weapons and war machines - wild but mostly unrealized inventions which have earned him a reputation as the quintessential Renaissance man. Leonardo’s work emerged from the humanist spirit that was in the air in 15th and 16th century Europe, when the known world was rapidly expanding and people felt personally empowered to think freely and try new things. The revolutions begun by the invention of the printing press had a parallel in music with the books of Petrucci published in Venice from 1501, and composers experimented with new ways of writing polyphonic music, without reference to the chant melodies heard in church. Our program will explore this spirit of invention, presenting sacred and secular music by composers who played with compositional tricks both hidden and explicit to create music whose beauty is easily expressed by the sublime sound of a consort of viols.
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