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Music Divine |
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Stile Moderno
concerts coming in February See "Upcoming Concerts" for more information |
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Among
the latest in early music, Music Divine emphasizes sacred music centered around the year MD
(1500--plus or minus 500 years, from plainchant to Pärt), with a healthy dose of the secular. The director
and many of the members have sung in some of the best professional choirs and early music groups in the metropolitan
area and elsewhere. The director has also conducted performances by Polyhymnia, the New York Madrigal Singers, the
Canby Singers, and many other ensembles. Music Divine is named after a 6-voice madrigal by Thomas
Tomkins. Rehearsals are held on the Upper West Side 7:30 - 9:30
pm: Mondays through January 25,
2010 Sundays starting January 31,
2010
Group
size: 10-16 members |
Now in its fifth year, Music Divine has performed in acoustically beautiful churches on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, and in Greenwich Village, Boston, and Teaneck, NJ.
In 2007 we took part in the Boston Early Music Festival and the New York Early Music Celebration. The
New York performance was featured on the nationwide radio program Millenium of Music.
For the Make Music New York 2008 Festival,
Music Divine presented a sneak preview of its War & Peace concert inside a resonant Central Park underpass
near the zoo. For the 2009 festival we found an
even better underpass and performed all of the music of our two previous concerts:
For our return to the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival, Music Divine presented a fringe concert of the
featured work from our December 2009 program, Jacob Obrecht's Missa Salve diva parens, a monumental, late-15th-century mass that transcended
the recently established "classical" norms of polyphonic composition. (See Upcoming Concerts and Past Concerts and Events )
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