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NEXT PERFORMANCE:  

(this) Sunday in the Park with

Ann, Barbara, Brian, Colin, John, Jonathan, Paul, Rita, Sara, & Steve

as Music Divine takes part in Make Music New York 2009

June 21 (Fathers Day) from 4 to 6 p.m.

in the Winterdale Arch (under the West Drive inside the park)

a few hundred yards North-East of the entrance to Central Park at

81st Street and Central Park West

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.  Its director and members have sung in many of the best choirs and early music groups in the metropolitan area and elsewhere.  The director has also conducted performances by the New York Madrigal Singers, Polyhymnia, The Canby Singers, and other ensembles. 

Music Divine is named after a 6-voice madrigal by Thomas Tomkins.

Rehearsals: 

Mondays, 7:30 - 9:30 pm, Upper West Side (usually);
            occasional Sundays 

Group size: 10-16 members

 

   Now completing its fourth 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 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.