Early Music Booklet - Final for Approval - Version 2
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Early Music Booklet - Final for Approval - Version 2
new yor k ear ly mu sic celebr at ion PRO MUSICA POLONICA October 4 - 20, 2013 Welcome to New York Early Music Celebration 2013, showcasing the diverse talents of NYC’s historical performance community. This year Early Music Foundation has invited the Polish Cultural Institute New York (PCI) to be our partner and, in so doing, PCI brings Polish artists to share in this 4th-triennial festival. I am pleased for this opportunity to introduce our guest counterparts, well-known throughout Europe, to enhance this year’s “Pro Musica Polonica” theme. By an earlier PCI invitation, I witnessed Poland’s vital early music activity. The exposure sparked an interest in a treasury of repertoire rarely performed in America. Because of lost artifacts in wars and occupations, notably in the 20th century, much of Poland’s early musical heritage is lost. Only relatively recently has there been an effort to revive a remaining pre-1800 legacy. This music is testament to its central role in Poland – a beacon of Renaissance thought, innovation and vital interconnection with all of Europe. Origins of Polish music are traced to the Middle Ages – 13th-century polyphony relating to the Parisian Notre Dame School. The Renaissance coincided with Kraków’s long-reigning Jagiellonian Dynasty to produce noteworthy composers along with Nicolaus Copernicus. Poland’s first Golden Age occurred during the 17th Century, when its capital was relocated from Kraków to Warsaw. Italian musician-composers were employed in Polish courts, importing a new baroque style; Polish composers readily absorbed le nuove musiche to make it their own. The first half of the 18th century experienced a lull in Polish creativity due to political intrigue: the Polish king at this time preferred to hold court in Dresden! German music (Telemann, Bach) prevailed. However, the second half of the century experienced another Golden Age, when enlightened Poles took up the classical style. Reflecting Poland’s invigorated national pride, the polonaise was championed, laying the groundwork to produce a Chopin in the next century. Frederick Renz Founder/Director Early Music Foundation Welcome from the Early Music Foundation Early Music Foundation (EMF) was founded by Frederick Renz and other members of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua in 1974. Upon its inception, EMF was invited to become Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City. Named “a revered institution” by The New York Times, Early Music Foundation fosters public understanding and appreciation of western culture through highest quality, historically-informed performances of music and music drama from the 11th through the 18th Centuries. EMF’s service to the field project “New York Early Music Central” promotes historical performances by New York City’s community of early music artists; manages an ongoing, online event coordination calendar; and hosts triennial, city-wide performance projects under the “New York Early Music Celebration” banner. EMF also manages the performing enterprise, Early Music New York – Frederick Renz, Director, and a recording label, Ex cathedra Records. www.earlymusicny.org 1 Welcome from the Polish Cultural Institute New York The mission of the Polish Cultural Institute New York is to raise awareness of Poland’s rich cultural legacy and contemporary cultural innovation. Accompanied by partners both longstanding and newly met, we’ve decided to dive into the world of Polish early music. It all began in the summer of 2011, when we brought a group of American presenters and promoters of early music to Poland. The idea of a festival was born in Narol in the Eastern borderlands of present-day Poland. From the beginning, the Early Music Foundation has been our steadfast partner, under founder and director, Frederick Renz. We hope that the twenty or so concerts in this series will serve as an enticement to further inquiries and musical discoveries allowing us to better understand this tradition and how there came to be such a rich musical culture in today’s Poland. If we’ve managed to convince you, we’ve accomplished our mission. Jerzy Onuch Director Polish Cultural Institute New York LOGO FINAL C=0, M=100, Y=100, K=0 and black k=100 Pantone chip 73-1 Together, we’ve prepared a program introducing the musical culture of a great European state as it was in the time of the First Polish Republic, also known as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Polish composers from the time of the Jagiellonian dynasty and the era of elected kings are being newly discovered today: Mikołaj Gomółka, Bartłomiej Pękiel, Adam Jarzębski, and Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, among others. But it is worth remembering that in this enormous multicultural state, occupying the terrain of at least six countries of modern Central and Eastern Europe, there were also representatives of other nationalities. In the northwestern lands of Pomerania, the German burghers played an important role. In the southeast, Ukrainians created their own musical culture, and north of them were the Belarusian and Lithuanian lands, and among all of them were Jews, Greeks, Tatars, and Armenians. The Republic was open to influences coming from the north, south, east and western Europe, and thus, Europe’s largest melting pot gave birth to a separate and distinct musical culture. 2 The Polish Cultural Institute New York, established in 2000, is a diplomatic mission dedicated to nurturing and promoting cultural ties between the United States and Poland. The Institute initiates, organizes, promotes, and produces a broad range of cultural events in theater, music, dance, film, literature, and the arts. It has collaborated with such cultural institutions as the Lincoln Center Festival, BAM, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Museum of Modern Art, The Jewish Museum, PEN World Voices Festival, Yale University, Columbia University, and many more. www.polishculture-nyc.org 3 NYEMC 2013 Full Festival Schedule Fri, Oct 4 Tue, Oct 8 7:15 pm 10:00 am Janusz Prusinowski Trio Wild Music from the Heart of Poland DROM Bach, Poland and the Polish Style In His Music: Seminar and Master Class with Raymond Erickson and Szymon Paczkowski The CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall 8:00 pm Brooklyn Baroque Johann Ludwig Krebs @ 300 The Church of St. Luke in the Fields Sat, Oct 5 7:30 pm PHOENIXtail Music of the Polish Court The Riverside Church, Christ Chapel Sun, Oct 6 2:00 pm Renaissance Street Singers Polyphonic Sacred Music A Cappella Manhattan location TBA 4:00 pm Ensemble Peregrina Sacer Nidus, The Holy Nest: Polish Medieval Music Corpus Christi Church 12:30 pm Amy Bartram & Christopher Preston Thompson: Songs of Gace Brulé Church of the Transfiguration 7:30 pm Indicates Polish Guest Artists Thu, Oct 17 7:30 pm 1:15 pm Early Music New York - Frederick Renz, Director POLONAISE! The Golden Age Cathedral of St. John the Divine Duo Marchand Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell’s Sopranos The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church 8:00 pm Polyhymnia Music from Renaissance Poland The Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch Sun, Oct 13 3:00 pm Il Giardino d’Amore Polonia Nell’europa Antica: Songs of Love, Sacred & Secular The Church of The Epiphany Arte Dei Suonatori with Bolette Roed, recorder soloist G.Ph.Telemann’s “Polish Music” The Morgan Library & Museum 5:00 pm Thu, Oct 10 Mon, Oct 14 1:15 pm 1:00 pm Melodeon Music Before the American Civil War The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church Trinity Wall Street Bach at One St. Paul’s Chapel 7:30 pm Carolyn Sampson, soprano All-Purcell Program Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall 4 Sat, Oct 12 Magdalena Baczewska Early Keyboard Music of Poland The Kosciuszko Foundation 7:30 pm Rebel Ensemble for Baroque Music with Matthias Maute, recorder and flute Rediscoveries: Rare Concerti and Sonatas by Bach’s Contemporaries Broadway Presbyterian Church Fri, Oct 18 7:30 pm Galileo’s Daughters The Consilient Realm of Copernicus: Revolutionary Ideas and the Music of His Time The Church of Notre Dame Sat, Oct 19 8:00 pm Le Poème Harmonique Combattimenti Miller Theatre at Columbia University Sun, Oct 20 2:00 pm Renaissance Street Singers Polyphonic Sacred Music A Cappella Manhattan location TBA 5:00 pm Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Motets of the Bach Family Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Indicates Polish Guest Artists 5 Janusz Prusinowski Trio Wild Music from the Heart of Poland The Janusz Prusinowski Trio (Pruh-shee-NOV-sky) is a group of musicians who follow in the traditions of village masters with whom they have studied, but they are at the same time an avant-garde band with their own unique sound and language of improvisation. They combine music with dance, and the archaic with the modern. The Trio’s style is distilled from their reinterpretations of central Poland’s village music. Listening to them perform you can hear how echoes of traditional music coexist with a variety of genres: the music of Chopin in its melodic pattern and the use of rubato, the mazurka, a shared love of improvisation with blues and jazz, and the energy and propulsion of rock. The Trio will perform in the following lineup: Janusz Prusinowski, fiddle, voice, dulcimer, Polish accordion; Piotr Piszczatowski, baraban drum, frame drum; Michał Żak, wooden flutes, shawm, clarinet; Piotr Zgorzelski, folk bass, dancing; Szczepan Pospieszalski, trumpet. www.januszprusinowskitrio.pl Fri, Oct 4, 2013, 7:15 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) DROM 85 Avenue A (between East 5th & 6th Streets) www.dromnyc.com $15 in advance, $20 at the door Presented by DROM. A part of the group’s 2013 USA Tour. 6 “What struck me right away about this music was its amazing ability to mix the feel and power of village dance music with the personal contemporary sensibilities of the players. (…) The addition of wind and brass to the Trio’s sound really pushes their music into another realm.” –Michal Shapiro, Huffington Post Brooklyn Baroque Johann Ludwig Krebs @ 300 Brooklyn Baroque specializes in the music of Bach and his contemporaries, but its concerts often range further back into the seventeenth century or as far forward as Beethoven. The ensemble’s debut CD, Northern Lights (QC 1005), a program of German Baroque works, won critical acclaim, as did its second disc, The Pleasures of the French (QC 1007). Their concert is commemorating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Bach’s star pupil, Johann Ludwig Krebs. Brooklyn Baroque are: Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord; Andrew Bolotowsky, flute; David Bakamjian, cello; with guests Marguerite Krull, soprano; Kate Maroney, mezzo-soprano; Timothy Hodges, tenor; Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone, Priscilla Smith, oboe; Beth Wenstrom, Johann Novom, violins; Rachel Evans, viola. www.rebeccapechefsky.com Program: Johann Ludwig Krebs: Cantata “Jesu, meine Freude”; Concerto in B Minor for Harpsichord and Oboe; selection of chamber and solo harpsichord pieces. Fri, Oct 4, 2013, 8:00 pm The Church of St. Luke in the Fields 487 Hudson Street www.stlukeinthefields.org $20 at the door Presented by Quill Classics. 8 “These fantastic artists have some strange power— their performance is so compelling and lively that it seems to reach right out of the speakers and grab my attention and does not let go.” –Christopher Chaffee, American Record Guide PHOENIXtail Music of the Polish Court A dynamic Early Music quartet composed of members from the élite inaugural class of Juilliard’s ground-breaking program in historical performance, PHOENIXtail presents innovative concert experiences celebrating primarily music of the 16th to 18th Centuries. All four virtuosi have distinguished solo résumés and perform regularly across the United States as well as overseas. PHOENIXtail are: Beth Wenstrom, violin; Priscilla Herreid, oboe and recorders; Ezra Seltzer, violoncello; Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord. www.phoenixtail.com Program: PHOENIXtail will perform music by masters of the Polish baroque, including Mielczewski, Zieleński, Szarzyński, and others who lived or worked in Poland or were inspired by its music. Sat, Oct 5, 7:30 pm The Riverside Church Christ Chapel 490 Riverside Drive at West 121st Street Suggested donation $20 This presentation is made possible in part with support by the West Harlem Development Corporation of Tides Foundation. 10 Renaissance Street Singers Polyphonic Sacred Music of the 16th Century The Renaissance Street Singers sing 15th- and 16th-century sacred music a cappella on the sidewalks and in the public spaces of New York City. The motivation is love for the music and the wish to share it with others. Concerts are two or three Sundays a month, usually from 2:00-4:00 pm, always free. This one is dedicated to the Early Music Celebration. The ensemble is led by John Hetland, director. www.streetsingers.org Program: About 16 pieces selected from the RSS current repertoire, including sections of the glorious Missa “Cantate” by John Sheppard. Sun, Oct 6 & 20, 2:00 pm Check website for performance locations www.streetsingers.org Absolutely free, contributions not accepted. 12 Ensemble Peregrina Sacer Nidus, The Holy Nest: Polish Medieval Music The international vocal quartet Ensemble Peregrina, founded in 1997, researches and performs sacred and secular European music from the 12th to 14th Centuries. The group’s main interest lies in the early polyphonies and monophonic repertories of the Notre Dame school and Aquitanian nova cantica. Peregrina’s interpretation and style is informed by original source materials and treatises, as well as the latest musicological and historical research. Ensemble Peregrina are: Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett, director, voice and harp; Kelly Landerkin, Hanna Järveläinen, Agnieszka Tutton, voices; Baptiste Romain, vielle. www.peregrina.ch Sacer nidus carries us away to the Congress of Gniezno in the year 1000, where Duke Bolesław I and Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, united in devotion to the martyred St. Adalbert (Wojciech) of Prague, formed an alliance making Gniezno an archdiocese, with bishoprics in Kraków, Wrocław, and Kołobrzeg. Ensemble Peregrina takes us into the world of the songs, sequences, and hymns recalling this story. Sun, Oct 6, 2013, 4:00 pm Music Before 1800 Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street http://mb1800info.wix.com All seats are assigned, $20-45; $10 student tickets at the door. Subscriptions and group discounts available. 14 Presented by Music Before 1800. Project co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund within the Wielkopolska Regional Operational Programme for 2007-2013 European Funds – for the development of innovative Wielkopolska. This presentation is made possible in part with support from the West Harlem Development Corporation of the Tides Foundation. “I’ve nothing but praise for the performers and the musicology that lies behind them.” –Early Music Review Bach, Poland & the Polish Style in His Music Seminar & Master Class with Raymond Erickson & Szymon Paczkowski In 1736 Johann Sebastian Bach became Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Composer. This frequently-cited title invites inquiry into the composer’s Polish connections in the 18th Century, yet the topic remains surprisingly uninvestigated, even by Polish researchers. This event will explore Bach’s knowledge of various national styles that he uniquely synthesized in his music, with special emphasis on the Polish style, which up to now has not received sufficient attention. It will consider Bach’s contacts with 18th century Poland and the reception of his music there, as well as demonstrate how Bach in particular as well as other composers of the time incorporated Polish elements in their music. Raymond Erickson, Professor Emeritus of Music at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, is a distinguished Bach scholar, a widely traveled harpsichordist and pianist, and one of America’s most experienced teachers of historical performance. Szymon Paczkowski, a noted Bach scholar and lecturer at the University of Warsaw, member of the American Bach Society, since 2011 of the Neue Bach-Gesellschaft in Leipzig, and an expert on Bach and the Polish musical style. Tue, Oct 8, 2013, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm The CUNY Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Avenue *Both harpsichord and piano will be available. Admission is free, but those wishing to perform in the master class must contact Professor Erickson at [email protected]. Co-sponsored by the Doctoral Program in Music at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. 16 PROGRAM: After presentations and discussion, a master class* will be held with musicians performing on both period and modern instruments. Amy Bartram & Christopher Preston Thompson Songs of Gace Brulé Soprano Amy Bartram gives recitals of 17th-century song with lutenist Ekko Jennings and directs the medieval ensemble, Machicoti. She is a luteplaying satrap in the GEMS production of “The Play of Daniel.” Her solo recordings of contemporary art songs and 16th-century French songs are available on iTunes and Amazon. She has sung with ensembles including Clarion Choir, Pomerium, and Vox, and she has been a soloist with the NY Consort of Viols and in numerous oratorios. www.amybartram.com With a “mystical harp and a beautiful voice,” Christopher Preston Thompson has “enchanted” audiences (The Epoch Times) in New York City and beyond. Described by Opera News as a “versatile, funny, game and attractive … obviously well-trained singer,” Christopher enjoys performing early and new music, playing early harp, and acting. Credits include performances with GEMS, New York Virtuoso Singers, Toby Twining Music, Pomerium, Encompass New Opera, Bronx Opera, Great River Shakespeare Festival, the Broken Consort, and his Medieval trio, Concordian Dawn. www.christopherprestonthompson.com Tue, Oct 8, 2013, 12:30 pm Church of the Transfiguration, a.k.a. The Little Church Around the Corner One East 29th Street (just East of Fifth Avenue) www.littlechurch.org/#/music/concert-series Suggested donation: $5 Presented by A Little Midday Music series and the Church of the Transfiguration. PROGRAM: Selection of songs by the medieval French trouvère, Gace Brulé. 18 Arte dei Suonatori & Bolette Read, recorders Telemann’s Polish Music Arte dei Suonatori is a Baroque orchestra from Poznań, Poland. Established in 1993 by violinists Ewa and Aureliusz Goliński, the ensemble brings together the most talented young Polish period-instrument performers along with the musicians from many other countries. The orchestra regularly works with distinguished soloists and conductors from all over the world, appearing on Europe’s best known labels, including BIS Records, Alpha and Channel Classics, and winning prestigious prizes, including Diapason d’Or. Their CD of Vivaldi’s La Stravaganza, featuring British violinist Rachel Podger as soloist, was named “Baroque Disc of the Year 2003” by Gramophone. www.artedeisuonatori.pl Program: G.Ph.Telemann’s “Polish Music,” “Völker-Overture” (The Nations) Suite in B flat Major, TWV 55:B5; Recorder concerto in F major, TWV 51:F3; Polish Concerto in B flat Major for strings & basso continuo, TWV 43:B3; Polish Concerto in G Major for strings and basso continuo, TWV 43:G7; Suite in A minor for recorder, strings and basso continuo, TWV 55:a2. Tue, Oct 8, 2013, 7:30 pm The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue at East 36th Street www.themorgan.org $35; $25 for members Presented by the Morgan Library & Museum. Co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund within the Wielkopolska Regional Operational Program for 2007-2013 European Funds – for the development of innovative Wielkopolska. 20 “I had an opportunity in upper Silesia as well as in Cracow of getting to know Polish music in all its barbaric beauty. One would hardly believe what wonderfully bright ideas such pipers and fiddlers are apt to get when they improvise, ideas that would suffice for an entire lifetime. There is in this music a great deal of merit provided it is treated right. I have myself written in this manner several large concertos and trios that I clad in Italian clothes with alternating Adagi and Allegri.” –from G.Ph.Telemann’s Autobiography Melodeon Music Before the American Civil War Founded by pianist, harmoniumist and reed organ Artis Wodehouse, chamber group Melodeon specializes in little-known but valuable American music from 19th and early 20th Century, using seldom heard antique instruments as the basis for their repertoire choices. Melodeon opens the Midtown Season with songs and short piano pieces from the United States antebellum time, before the Civil War. Selections will be devoted to Creole music from New Orleans, and the music of Stephen Foster. This fascinating program features a flowing sequence of duo and solo songs, with brief period salon piano pieces mingling strategically among them. Melodeon will appear in the following lineup: Artis Wodehouse, antique square piano; Marti Newland, tenor; George Spitzer, tenor. www.artiswodehouse.com Thu, Oct 10, 1:15 pm The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church 325 Park Avenue at East 51st Street www.midtownconcerts.org $10 suggested donation Presented by the Midtown Concerts series, sponsored by the Gotham Early Music Scene. 22 Carolyn Sampson All-Purcell Program Hailed as “the best British early-music soprano by quite some distance” (Gramophone), Carolyn Sampson comes to Carnegie Hall to perform a recital of delightful art songs and arias by influential British composer Henry Purcell. Hear for yourself why “she tops virtually every Baroque conductor’s wish list of soloists” (The Independent, London). This concert is part of Salon Encores. Carolyn Sampson will be accompanied by ensemble of period instrument musicians: Beiliang Zhu, viola da gamba; Paul O’Dette, lute; Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord. www.carolynsampson.com Thu, Oct 10, 7:30 pm Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall 881 Seventh Avenue at West 57th Street www.carnegiehall.org $55 This performance is part of Salon Encores series, presented by Carnegie Hall at the Weill Recital Hall. 24 Wielkopolska. Based in culture. Visit and be inspired www.umww.pl/culture Autumn International Chopin in the Fall Colors Festival in Antonin International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań International Jazz Piano Festival in Kalisz Oratorio Music Festival Sacromontana in Gostyń Winter Festival of Contemporary Music Nostalgia Festival in Poznań Masks Theatre Festival in Poznań Early Music Festival Schola Cantorum in Kalisz Spring Spring Festival in Poznań inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Poznań Ballet Spring Jazzonalia Festival in Konin International Festival of Modern Music Poznań Music Spring Summer Ethno Port Festival Festival of Ethno Music in Poznań MaltaFestival International Theater Festival Transatlantyk Festival curated by Oscar® award winning Jan A.P. Kaczmarek Polish Guitar Academy Festival in Wielkopolska Region Early Music New York – Frederick Renz, Director POLONAISE! The Golden Age Early Music New York (EM/NY) reaps international acclaim for vibrant and provocative performances of historically informed repertoire from the Middle Ages through the Classical eras. In New York City, EM/NY can be heard/seen in an annual subscription series “In-Residence” at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, as well as at the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Founder and Director of the Early Music Foundation Frederick Renz has for four decades researched and performed music and music drama from the 11th through the 18th Centuries. Internationally acclaimed for his work as a conductor, producer, director, and performer, Renz has received individual grants, commissions, and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Spoleto Festival, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. www.earlymusicny.org Program: Polonaises, symphonies & divertimenti by Lithuanian Prince Maciej Radziwiłł, Polish composers Adam Haczewski and Jan Engel, and first modern performance of polonaises by Johan David Zander of Sweden. Sat, Oct 12, 7:30 pm The Cathedral of St. John the Divine 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at West 112th Street www.earlymusicny.org/orders.php Reserved seating $40, students $20 at the door. 28 Presented by the Early Music Foundation. This concert is made possible in part by support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the West Harlem Development Corporation of Tides Foundation and the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. “A revered institution.” –The New York Times Polyhymnia Music from Renaissance Poland Polyhymnia is a small ensemble of professional singers, focusing on historically informed performance of sacred music from the courts and cathedrals of the Renaissance world. Since 2000, director John Bradley has been creating original editions of music for the ensemble, some of it secreted in manuscript collections since the 16th Century. Working in concert with libraries, liturgical historians and institutions, Polyhymnia hopes to both preserve and reintroduce choral masterworks of the Renaissance and early Baroque in ways that both entertain and elucidate. Since its formation in 1994, the ensemble has amassed a vast repertoire performed in both traditional concerts as well as historical liturgical reconstructions from Seville, imperial Germany and Tudor England. Their concerts have included works by both well-known composers like Lassus and Palestrina, and a wide array of unjustly neglected authors, including Aston, Clemens non Papa, Crecquillon, de Rore, Fayrfax, Gombert, Porta, Vaet and Willaert. www.polyhymnia-nyc.org Program: Bartłomiej Pękiel: Missa pulcherrima Motets by Liban, Leopolita, Zieleński and more. Sat, Oct 12, 8:00 pm Pre-concert lecture by Prof. Szymon Paczkowski (University of Warsaw) at 7:00 pm The Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch 552 West End Avenue (enter on West 87th Street) www.polyhymnia-nyc.org $25 general admission, $15 seniors, students and EMA Members 30 “Elite Early Music ensemble.” —The New Yorker Il Giardino d’Amore Polonia nell’Europa Antica: Songs of Love, Sacred & Secular Il Giardino d’Amore is an ensemble consisting of young musicians from Poland, Italy and Spain, specializing in historically-informed performance of Italian music of 17th and 18th Centuries. The ensemble was founded in Kraków by violinist Stefan Plewniak, and harpsichordist Marco Vitale, a native of Palermo, Sicily. They met while performing with Jordi Savall’s Orchestra Le Concert des Nations in Barcelona. Il Giardino d’Amore’s instrumentalists are chamber musicians and soloists working with a range of Polish and international early music ensembles. The young soloists associated with the group – award-winning soprano Natalia KawalekPlewniak and bass-baritone Dawid Biwo – frequently sing throughout Europe and have been praised as being among the most promising Polish vocalists of their generation. Il Giardino d’Amore will appear in the following lineup: Natalia KawalekPlewniak, soprano; Dawid Biwo, baritone; Stefan Plewniak, director, violin solo; Enrique Gomez Cabrero Fernandez, violin; Marzena Matyaszek, violin; Katarzyna Kalinowska, violin; Charlene Yeh, viola; Katarzyna Cichoń, cello; Marysia Guzowska, lute; Marco Vitale, harpsichord. www.ilgiardinodamore.com Sun, Oct 13, 3:00 pm The Church of the Epiphany East 22nd Street at Second Avenue www.epiphanychurchnyc.org Free Presented by the Church of the Epiphany. Participation of Il Giardino d’Amore is made possible through the generous support of the Grupa Azoty. 32 PROGRAM: For their US debut at the Celebration, the group prepared a program dealing with the universal theme of love in its all aspects, selected from works by Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel, Lully, Żebrowski, Szarzyński, and others. Magdalena Baczewska Keyboard music of Polish Renaissance and Baroque Magdalena Baczewska is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Polish Minister of Culture, and the Award for Outstanding Polish Citizen Abroad. Known primarily as a pianist, Baczewska returns to the Kosciuszko Foundation on October 13th, to perform repertoire of the Polish Renaissance and Baroque on the harpsichord. “I was delighted to study the wide array of keyboard music written in Poland before 1800. Many period manuscripts that have surfaced recently, demonstrate a variety of compositional styles, encompassing the Italian virtuoso fashion, French dance music, and German polyphony, as well as stylized court dances, such as minuets and polonaises. For the recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation I have chosen Renaissance dances collected in the Tablature of Jan of Lublin, the 18th century music collections of Jadwiga Dygulska and princess Anna Maria Saska, as well as two dances written by general Tadeusz Kosciuszko himself. This journey through the early music of Poland spans nearly three centuries and will conclude in the 1790s, shortly before the birth of Fryderyk Chopin.” –Magdalena Baczewska www.magdalenabaczewska.com Program: Ms. Baczewska will perform Polish Renaissance and Baroque music for the harpsichord. The program will feature keyboard works of Jan z Lublina, Bartłomiej Pękiel, Piotr Żelechowski, Jan Podbielski, and Tadeusz Kościuszko among others. Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:00 pm The Kosciuszko Foundation 15 East 65th Street www.thekf.org $20; $15 KF members & students 34 Presented by the Kościuszko Foundation. “Player of taste, purity of tone, and clarity of line.” — Palm Beach ArtsPaper Trinity Wall Street Bach at One The Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street Church offer a weekly service featuring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas, accompanied by prayers and poetry readings, at historic St. Paul’s Chapel. Conducted by Julian Wachner, Trinity’s Director of Music and the Arts, these services present Bach’s monumental cantata output in a liturgical context, returning these miniature oratorio-like works to their original purpose. Steeped in a sophisticated praxis of hermeneutical design, these works are presented in an historically-informed manner of performance, with period instruments and members of the Trinity Choir. Bach at One is free, open to all, and takes place each Monday at 1:00 pm at St. Paul’s Chapel (Broadway and Fulton Street). It offers a perfect lunch hour time of reflection and meditation at the beginning of the work week. www.trinitywallstreet.org Program: Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 63 Christen, ätzet diesen Tag and BWV 43 Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen Mon, Oct 14, 1:00 pm Trinity Church St. Paul’s Chapel Broadway and Fulton Street www.trinitywallstreet.org Free Presented by Trinity Wall Street. 36 REBEL Ensemble & Matthias Maute, recorder Rediscoveries: Rare Concerti & Sonatas by Bach’s Contemporaries REBEL (pronounced “Re-BEL”) is widely regarded as one of America’s premiere Baroque ensembles. Named after Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel, the group was formed in The Netherlands in 1991; that same year it won first prize in the prestigious Van Wassenaer Competition in Utrecht. Through its long residency at Trinity Church Wall Street, REBEL has received high praise for its collaborations with Trinity Choir. REBEL has also worked with many esteemed vocalists, among them Rufus Müller, Derek Lee Ragin, Daniel Taylor, and soprano Renée Fleming. Arguably the most aired American Baroque ensemble on radio in the US today, REBEL appears often on APM’s Performance Today and MPR’s St. Paul Sunday. REBEL has released more than 20 discs on Deutsche Harmonia, Naxos, Sono Luminus, and other esteemed labels. A new CD of double concerti by Telemann will be released in Fall 2013. REBEL are: Jörg-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Marmer, violins and directors; Risa Browder, viola; John Moran, cello, Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; Motomi Igarashi, bass and violone; Dongsok Shin, harpsichord. Soloist: Matthias Maute, recorder and flute. www.rebelbaroque.com Program: Rarely performed works by Telemann, Belitze, Theile, Hasse, Schwartzkopf and Handel, including Telemann’s Concerto Polonaise in B-flat major Mon, Oct 14, 7:30 pm Broadway Presbyterian Church 601 West 114th Street at Broadway www.gemsny.org $35 adult; $30 seniors; $15 students (25 & under, with ID; at the door only) 38 This presentation is made possible in part with support by the West Harlem Development Corporation of Tides Foundation. “Sophisticated and beguiling.” –The New York Times Duo Marchand Two Daughters of This Aged Stream: Purcell’s Sopranos Duo Marchand – formed by singer and historical harper Marcia Young and luteist Andy Rutherford – takes its name from a family of court musicians that flourished in 17th-century France. In recent seasons, the Duo has performed in many prestigious venues and festivals, including at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, Connecticut Early Music Festival, The Hudson (NY) Opera House, and at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments. Duo Marchand are: Marcia Young, soprano and renaissance harp; Andy Rutherford, lute. The special guest for the Celebration performance is Ruth Cunningham of Anonymous 4 on voice, Baroque flute, and recorder. www.angelfire.com/planet/duomarchand Program: The Duo will perform luscious soprano duets, arias, and instrumentals from the 17th-century theatrical works of Henry Purcell. Thu, Oct 17, 1:15 pm The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church 325 Park Avenue at East 51st Street www.midtownconcerts.org $10 suggested donation Presented by the Midtown Concerts series, sponsored by the Gotham Early Music Scene. “Thoughtfully prepared and deftly executed… every individual selection contributed to a greater totality…the purely instrumental selections occasionally sounded as if they were emanating from some ancient, delicate music box—as an antiquated intricacy somehow preserved for 21st-century ears.” 40 —Tim Page, The Washington Post Galileo’s Daughters The Consilient Realm of Copernicus: Revolutionary Ideas & the Music of His Time Since their debut concert in 2001, Galileo’s Daughters have performed throughout the United States and Canada at universities, music festivals and special gatherings of the scientific community. Shaped by a variety of talents in early music, opera, jazz, drama, and musical scholarship, their programs offer an entertaining window into the most exciting periods in the history of western civilization through music, narration and stunning video images. In their special Celebration program, Galileo’s Daughters, best-selling author Dava Sobel and video artist Marc Wagnon reveal the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish Catholic cleric and astronomer, who placed the sun at the center of the universe as a result of his attempt to re-harmonize the cosmological theories of his day to Aristotelian ideals. The story will be presented through period music, narration, video images and animation. Before the program (performed under the beautiful dome of the Catholic Church of Notre Dame in West Harlem), the audience will have the opportunity to view celestial bodies from telescopes supplied by Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach. www.galileosdaughters.com Fri, Oct 18, 7:30 pm The Church of Notre Dame 405 West 114th Street at Morningside Drive www.ndparish.org $20 at the door; $15 seniors, students and EMA members This presentation is made possible in part with support by the West Harlem Development Corporation of Tides Foundation. 42 “A passionate and improvisatory approach—sensual, languorous, compelling.” –BBC Music Magazine Le Poème Harmonique Combattimenti Le Poème Harmonique is a group of soloists, gathered around its artistic director Vincent Dumestre. Its artistic activity, centered on vocal and instrumental music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, is regularly enriched by interaction with other disciplines. This, together with real teamwork—working together as a company—is Le Poème Harmonique’s hallmark in Baroque performance today. Centered around Monteverdi’s revolutionary Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, considered one of the finest madrigals of war, this season’s program contrasts Monteverdi’s dramatic cantata with a light-hearted piece by Marazzoli that parodies the same love-lorn tale. Showcasing works in stile rappresentativo, a style of singing developed in 16th Century Italian opera that is more emotive than speech but less melodic than song, Le Poème Harmonique celebrates music as a means of connection and poetic communication. Claire Lefilliâtre, soprano; Vincent Dumestre, guitar, theorbo, and music director. www.lepoemeharmonique.fr Sat, Oct 19, 8:00 pm Miller Theatre at Columbia University 2960 Broadway at West 116th Street www.millertheatre.com $45; $30 senior, $27 Columbia faculty, staff & students/under 25; $7 Columbia students Presented by the Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts. 44 Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Motets of the Bach Family The Bach Choir and Players of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 65th Street and Central Park West present motets of Johann Sebastian Bach and his uncles for its opening Vespers. Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, now in its 46th season, presents Bach’s cantatas and other North German Renaissance and Baroque works weekly in an historic liturgical tradition following the practice of 18th century Leipzig. The oldest organization in the Western Hemisphere to offer such a tradition, The Bach Choir and Players on period instruments, under the direction of Cantor Rick Erickson and Associate Director of Music Donald Meineke, has been named “New York’s Temple to Bach” (The New York Times) and noted for its “valuable” contribution to the city’s arts community. With the addition of the Paul Fritts organ in 2011, Bach Vespers is heard in the most authentic atmosphere outside of Leipzig. www.bachvespersnyc.org Sun, Oct 20, 5:00 pm Holy Trinity Lutheran Church www.holytrinitynyc.org Free-will offerings accepted 46 “New York’s Temple to Bach.” –The New York Times Acknowledgements New York Early Music Celebration 2013: Pro Musica Polonica is presented by the Early Music Foundation and the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Participation of Arte dei Suonatori and Ensemble Peregrina is made possible through a generous grant from the European Regional Development Fund within the Wielkopolska Regional Operational Programme for 2007-2013. European Funds - for the development of innovative Wielkopolska. LOGO FINAL C=0, M=100, Y=100, K=0 and black k=100 Pantone chip 73-1 Participation of Il Giardino d’Amore is made possible through the generous support of the Grupa Azoty. Early Music Foundation, Inc. Frederick Renz, Founder/Director Aaron Smith, Operations Manager Dorothy Olsson, Development Consultant Michael Gordon, Fiscal Consultant www.EarlyMusicNY.org Polish Cultural Institute New York Jerzy Onuch, Director Anna Perzanowska, Curator, Music Program Kamila Slawinski, Communications Manager www.PolishCulture-NYC.org In collaboration with: DROM, Quill Classics, Music Before 1800, The CUNY Graduate Center’s Doctoral Program in Music, A Little Midday Music Series, Church of the Transfiguration, The Morgan Library & Museum, Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS), Carnegie Hall Presents, Early Music Foundation, The Church of the Epiphany, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Trinity Wall Street, Miller Theater at Columbia University School of the Arts, and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Grant support to Early Music New York, Galileo’s Daughters, Music Before 1800 (presenter), Phoenixtail, and Rebel Baroque generously provided by the West Harlem Development Corporation of Tides Foundation. West Harlem Development Corporation Special thanks to the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union for their generous support for the 2013 Celebration. Special thanks to the Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznań (division of the National Museum) for permission to use images from In the Service of the Sacred: Selected Aspects of the Music Culture of Jasna Góra and Poznań in the 18th Century (National Museum Poznań, 2012). 48 49 New York Early Music Celebration 2013 Honorary Council New York Early Music Celebration 2013 Advisory Committee The Honorable Victor H. Ashe 24th Ambassador to Poland Charles Brewer Professor of Historical Musicology Florida State University College of Music John P. Birkelund Founding Chair, Polish-American Enterprise Fund Ewa Juńczyk-Ziomecka Consul General, Republic of Poland in New York Dr. Magda Kapuścińska President, Józef Pilsudski Institute of America Elizabeth Davis Head Librarian Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library Columbia University Christine Gevert Artistic Director Crescendo HSH Princess Anna Christina Radziwill Zygmunt Rolat President, Oxford International Corporation Alex Storożyński President & Executive Director, Kosciuszko Foundation Thomas Zajac Music Director Wellesley College Collegium Musicum Margaret Ziemnicka Violinist The Music Conservatory of Westchester Brochure Editors: Anna Perzanowska, Aaron Smith, Kamila Slawinski Publicist: Gail Wein, www.ClassicalMusicCommunications.com Design: B Dean Skibinski, www.skibinski.co 50 51 NYEMC 2013 Festival Venues DROM 85 Avenue A (between 5th and 6th Streets) New York, NY 10009 www.dromnyc.com The Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch 552 West End Avenue at West 87th Street New York, NY 10024 www.saintignatiusnyc.org The Church Of St. Luke In The Fields 487 Hudson Street New York, NY 10013 www.stlukeinthefields.org The Church of the Epiphany 1393 York Avenue at East 74th Street New York, NY 10021 www.epiphanynyc.org The Riverside Church, Christ Chapel 490 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10027 www.theriversidechurchny.org The Cathedral of St. John the Divine 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at West 112th Street New York, NY 10025 www.stjohndivine.org Corpus Christi Church 529 West 121st Street New York, NY 10027 www.corpus-christi-nyc.org The Kościuszko Foundation 15 East 65th Street New York, NY 10065 www.thekf.org CUNY Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 St. Paul’s Chapel 209 Broadway at Fulton Street New York, NY 10007 www.trinitywallstreet.org The Church of the Transfiguration One East 29th Street (between Fifth and Madison Avenues) New York, New York 10016 www.littlechurch.org Broadway Presbyterian Church 601 West 114th Street New York, NY 10025 www.bpcnyc.org The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue at East 36th Street New York, NY 10016 www.themorgan.org The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church 325 Park Avenue at East 51st Street New York, NY 10022 www.stbarts.org 52 Church of Notre Dame 405 West 114th Street New York, NY 10025 ndparish.org Miller Theatre at Columbia University 2960 Broadway at West 116th Street MC 1801 New York, NY 10027 www.millertheatre.com The Poznań museum was founded in 1857 and became a National Museum in 1950. It is one of the oldest, biggest and most important museums in Poland. Its rich and diverse holdings preserve the legacy of those with the passion, effort and knowledge to gather these artworks over centuries for the public. These gems are fit for any prestigious world gallery and await their visitors, ready to offer them an unforgettable experience. The Museum of Musical Instruments dates back to 1945 and is a branch of the National Museum. This institution currently houses 2,500 objects from different periods, representing all continents. The collection prides itself on its stringed instruments; especially violins (17th–18th c.) made by dynasties of Polish makers – Groblicz and Dankwart – as well as instruments by Italian masters (Amati, Testore, Guadagnini, Maggini). The highlight of the keyboard instrument collection is a double-manual harpsichord by Burkat Shudi (No. 496) from 1765 and among the aerophones is a medieval bronze lituus (14th–15th c.). www.mnp.art.pl