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Past Concerts and Events
GERMAN composers: ENGLISH composers: On Sunday evening, November 1, Music Divine joined Asteria, Canby Singers and Renaissance Street Singers in a concert to celebrate the musical life of Harold Brown, one of the founders of New York's Early Music movement that began in the 1950s. Please learn all about him, and about a weekend of music inspired and written by him, by clicking on the following link: 
Renaissance Music for Spring, Lent & Easter
Barbireau, Brumel, Byrd, Cardoso,
Dufay, Janequin, Monteverdi,
Morley, Schütz, Victoria . . . and a little Bach & Brahms
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The Battle of Marignano, scene
of Janequin's La Guerre In October, for
the 2007 New York Early Music Celebration, we performed music of Heinrich Isaac and Josquin Desprez, dividing a mass
between them, framed by a 6-voice motet by each. We repeated the concert in Teaneck, NJ, to benefit the Teaneck Peace
& Justice Coalition.
In March 2008 we
presented Renaissance settings of Salve Regina by OBRECHT, MARTINI, MORALES, & VICTORIA--interspersed
with other Marian motets by OCKEGHEM. In December 2008 we presented "Jakob OBRECHT (1457-1505), 'Beethoven' of the Early
Renaissance; plus 16th-century Christmas motets by Lassus, Marenzio, Walter, and Jakob Handl" By the last quarter of the 15th century, a "new art" of
music had been established, already embodying many classical elements of harmony and counterpoint that lasted into the 19th
century. This early Renaissance style, perfected by Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Isaac, Obrecht, and many others, imposed
restrictions Obrecht was not always willing to follow. In the manner of Beethoven, who would not bind himself by all
the conventions of classical music around 1800, Obrecht did things no other did, even breaking newly established
rules, in order to achieve extraordinarily beautiful and exciting musical effects. His Missa Salve diva parens
exemplifies this daring originality perhaps better than any other composition of the period. Who knows how differently
the history of classical music might have developed if Obrecht hadn't been struck down by the plague in 1505, over a decade
before the death of his most famous contemporaries? We brought this extraordinay mass
to the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival, presenting it as a "fringe" concert at the First Lutheran
Church, at 299 Berkeley Street, on Saturday, June 13, at 4:30 p.m.
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