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Mar 26,2006 - Apr 2,2006 |
The end of no 'ordinary' season
Soprano Hallie Fishel and Lutenist John Edwards perform Medici music
The Musicians In Ordinary's 2005-06 season features the following concerts.
There's much that's out of the ordinary as The Musicians In Ordinary's soprano Hallie Fishel and lutenist John Edwards end their fifth season of music for lutes and voices.
Named after the singers and lutenists that performed in the Stuart kings' private chambers and chapel royal, The Musicians In Ordinary (MIO) pay meticulous attention to historical detail, as Fishel and Edwards recreate for 21st century audiences both the racy and romantic secular tunes and inspiring sacred works of music mainly from the Renaissance and Baroque.
On April 8, Musicians in Ordinary will close their 2005-06 season with a presentation of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Music from the Medici Court. Besides supporting Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, Lorenzo di Medici (1449-1492) was also a great patron of music. Christopher Verrette joins the Musicians in Ordinary on vielle and rebec in music by the likes of Heinrich Isaac and Alexander Agricola, whom Lorenzo employed, and Bartolomeo Tromboncino, whom Lorenzo tried to poach from other well-placed patrons.
Usually confining their repertoire to the Renaissance and Baroque eras of the 16th and 17th centuries, MIO's 2005-06 season covered four centuries - from the 15th century of the Medici to 19th century Vienna. In addition to the songs of John Dowland, highlights included German Baroque Christmas music, and 19th century Viennese songs and operatic arias played on a new replica of an 1810 guitar. A number of period instrumentalists joined Edwards and Fishel as guest artists.
John Edwards, master of a wide range of lutes and guitars, is proud of the new season: "Since the first singer-songwriter plucked the first strings stretched across a turtle shell, songs to some kind of plucked instrument seem to have had a special resonance with humankind; from the slice of song we specialize in, lutes and early guitars, to the present day. The voice with the lyre, the lute or the guitar, plugged or unplugged, whatever is being strummed or plucked, they fit together into a certain place in the human psyche that needs filling."
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