We began our revival on December 13, 2024, with a concert at St. Ignatius of Antioch, on NYC's Upper West side, where we sang two gorgeous Renaissance masses, one by Heinrich Isaac, Een vrolic wesen, and the other by Josquin Desprez, Une Mousse de Biscaye.
Last June, we took part in the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival, a competition with four other groups held at Columbia University's Miller Theater. There we performed William Byrd's beautiful Ne irascaris Domine and Hans Leo Hassler's amazing chromatic motet Ad Dominum cum tribularer.
On January 17, we participated in "Music Whatever, No. 4," held in John Hetland's Chelsea loft apartment. We sang two exquisite settings of the biblical text "How are the mighty fallen," one by Josquin Desprez (part four of his Planxit autem David) and the other by Robert Ramsey, composer at the court of King James I--yes, "his" version of the Bible.
Our current project is to revive our very successful program: "Renaissance (plus Bach and Pärt) music of War and Peace," which we performed in New York and Boston in 2007-08. We hope to have it ready to schedule this winter in NYC.
Watch this space for a date and venue.