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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 slightly diminishes every "perfect" fifth. By keeping fifths truly perfect, our system creates
harmonies and melodies with slightly wider major intervals and narrower minor ones than many 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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2011
Singers
Emma
Clune, soprano
Alaina Logee, soprano
Ada Ng, soprano
Rita Udell, soprano
Martha Cargo, alto
Virginia
Kaycoff, alto
Elaine Tokunaga, alto
Andrea Swenson,
alto
Stephen Bonime, countertenor/tenor
Chad Cygan, tenor
Joel Pattison, tenor
Nicholas DeMaison, tenor/baritone
Andy Chang, tenor/baritone
John Hetland, baritone
Tod Mijanovich, baritone
Paul Geidel, bass
Jonathan Miller, bass
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About Stephen Bonime, director
Steve earned his Ph.D. in Music History at Bryn Mawr College under the direction of Dr. Isabelle Cazeaux. As a Haverford undergraduate he co-founded and co-directed the Renaissance Choir of Haverford & Bryn Mawr Colleges with Alex Blachly (the founder and director of Pomerium).
While a grad student Steve resumed direction of the Renaissance Choir, which still performs regularly in the Philadelphia
area. He has also conducted the Renaissance Chorus of New York, Vassar College Madrigal
Singers, Canby Singers, Polyhymnia, and New York Madrigal Singers. In most of these groups, and in many other choruses
and professional liturgical choirs, Steve has sung tenor and countertenor.
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