Music Divine
1500 ~ The Dawn of Classical Music
To celebrate his 80th birthday, Stephen Bonime relaunches Music Divine to present two gorgeous, rarely heard, complete masses — one by Josquin Desprez (Une Mousse de Biscaye), and the other by Heinrich Isaac (Een vrolic wesen). This music demonstrates how rules of counterpoint and harmony of the Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods were already well established and beautifully implemented over 500 years ago by composers of the Renaissance.
Friday, December 13 at 8 pm
Tickets:
$45 ~ Prime Seating
$30 ~ General Admission
$15 ~ Students & Fixed Income
Tickets purchased at the door on the day of the concert will be $5 more than prices reflected online.
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
87th Street at West End Ave (Upper West Side), Manhattan
Performers:
Angelica Burton, Jane Hubbard, Elizaveta Kozlova ~ sopranos
Art Manabat, Lianna Portnoy, Andrea Swenson ~ altos
Andy Chang, Drew Ivarson, David Usdan ~ tenors
John Bradley, Erik-Peter Mortensen, Jonathan Miller ~ basses
Stephen Bonime ~ director
Stephen Bonime began conducting Renaissance music in 1963 at college, when he and classmate Alexander Blachly (Pomerium’s founder and conductor) founded the Renaissance Choir of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges (which still performs). He returned to Bryn Mawr in the 1970s to earn his doctorate in Music History with Isabelle Cazeaux. Since then, he has conducted the Renaissance Chorus of New York, the Parisian-American Renaissance Chorus, the Vassar Madrigal Singers, the Canby Singers, the New York Madrigal Singers, Polyhymnia, and finally Music Divine, which he founded in 2005. Stephen and the choir took a break in 2011, which has lasted until now. Though he never stopped singing in choirs, he has missed conducting for too long. This is his new beginning.
