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Music Divine's Singing
Style
For choral music, our members
sing without any audible vibrato, they blend smoothly with each other, and they are excellent sight-readers. We base our intonation
on the harmonic series pure interval of the perfect fifth (the way stringed instruments tune). This means we avoid the equal
temperament of the piano, which requires an ever-so-slightly diminished fifth instead. Our system, known as Pythagorean
tuning, creates harmonies and melodies with slightly wider major intervals and narrower minor ones than most singers
are used to producing. The sound, we believe, is the most beautiful realization of polyphonic music composed in the Renaissance,
and in many other periods as well.
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About Stephen Bonime
Steve earned his doctorate in Music History at Bryn Mawr College (M.A. 1972; Ph.D. 1975). As a Haverford undergraduate in 1963, he co-founded and co-directed the Renaissance Choir of Haverford & Bryn Mawr Colleges with Alex Blachly, now director of Pomerium Musices,
one of the world's best professional early music groups. Steve resumed direction of the Renaissance Choir 1970-73
while a grad student. It still exists and performs regularly in the Philadelphia area.
Steve has conducted the Renaissance Chorus of New York, Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Canby Singers, Polyhymnia, and New
York Madrigal Singers. In most of them, and in many other choruses, he has also sung tenor and countertenor.
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Singers
Ann Berkhausen, Alto Richard Bränström, Tenor Deborah Dimasi, Soprano Paul Geidel, Bass/Tenor
Jane Hubbard, Soprano Sara Maslowski, Alto
Tod Mijanovich, Bass
Jonathan Miller, Bass Barbara Morgan, Soprano Colin O'Brien,
Tenor Anna Roberts, Soprano
Luisa Torres, Alto Rita Udell, Soprano
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